The SEC just made MEV disclosure a federal compliance requirement for DeFi interfaces. On April 13, 2026, the SEC Division of Trading and Markets issued staff guidance allowing crypto UI providers (wallets, browser extensions, front-ends) to operate without broker-dealer registration under 12 specified conditions. One of those conditions: explicit disclosure of MEV risks, conflicts of interest, and fee structures. This is not a suggestion. It is a minimum compliance floor with a five-year runway ending April 13, 2031. For compliance teams at protocols and institutional DeFi platforms, the execution routing requirements deserve immediate attention. If your interface shows a single execution path, users must be able to see alternatives. If it shows multiple routes, objective sorting tools (by price, by speed) are required. The guidance explicitly prohibits labeling any route the "best" option. That is a direct constraint on how routing logic gets surfaced to end users. This validates what serious infrastructure builders have been working toward. MEV is no longer a technical footnote. It is a named regulatory risk category. Protocols that cannot produce auditable, structured data on execution quality and MEV exposure will face real liability gaps under this framework. BIRDAI has spent the past 11 months decoding millions of transactions across the MEV supply chain and mapping hundreds of identified searchers, builders, and routing actors. Our MEV Observatory and BirdSearch execution comparison tooling were built for exactly this disclosure environment, because the thesis was always that DeFi would converge on TradFi-style market structure. April 13 is the first federal marker on that path, not the last. Source: https://lnkd.in/g7uKnfij #DeFi #MEV #CryptoRegulation
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Birdai Labs, Inc. is building a new frontier in market infrastructure—redefining how value is discovered, priced, and distributed in real time. We believe the systems that move value should distribute it fairly. Our mission is to bring structure, transparency, and efficiency to systems where value is currently fragmented, opaque, and unevenly captured. We are defining a new category for MEV distribution that merges economic efficiency with emerging regulatory frameworks. This requires rethinking how systems are designed at the lowest levels of execution. Based in New York, NY and San Francisco, CA, Birdai operates at the intersection of distributed systems, market structure, and applied cryptography. We are a small, high-leverage team focused on building systems that directly impact real economic flows.
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The L1 wars are over. VCs are now picking winners at the application layer, but two DEXs with identical TVL and volume can have completely different execution quality. Standard due diligence misses how much value traders lose to MEV on each protocol. Birdai provides ground truth execution data that separates organic volume from searcher activity, giving VCs an information edge when evaluating and monitoring Sui DeFi investments.
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The L1 wars are over. VCs are now picking winners at the application layer, but two DEXs with identical TVL and volume can have completely different execution quality. Standard due diligence misses how much value traders lose to MEV on each protocol. Birdai provides ground truth execution data that separates organic volume from searcher activity, giving VCs an information edge when evaluating and monitoring Sui DeFi investments.
