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# How it Works
* **Auction:** Nova routes transactions into a private bidding process where vetted searchers analyse the transaction and market for potential back-running opportunities. Searchers submit bids representing the value they are willing to return, and the highest bidder provides the optimal backrun.\
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Nova bundles the user’s transaction with the winning backrun and submits the package to a trusted builder network, ensuring the user transaction, backrun, and associated refund are included atomically in the same block.\
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This structure prevents harmful forms of MEV such as front-running and sandwich attacks, while allowing transaction originators to capture value generated by the signal their own transaction creates.\
* **Gas Recoveries:** OFA platforms must request gas recoveries from block builders. Without accurate insight into current block construction dynamics requests are simply estimates based on historical data. \
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Nova minimizes execution uncertainty by dynamically optimising priority fees using real-time intelligence.
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