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Quants are paying $4,000 a month to front-run Solana trades

MEV bots by quant traders can read Solana trades before blocks exist, thanks to validators selling insider access to transaction data.

MEV bot JaredFromSubway.eth loses $7.5M to approvals honeypot

After years of terrorizing DeFi users, ruthless sandwicher JaredFromSubway.eth has been caught in a rival’s on-chain trap.

Vitalik Buterin carelessly routed an order accepting any slippage to Uniswap and suffered a sandwich attack by JaredFromSubway.eth.

The April 2023 exploit allowed the brothers’ validator to drain “predatory” MEV bots who attempt to profit off transactions of regular users.

A new report, titled MEV and the Limits of Scaling, explores the vast volume of MEV spam offsetting improvements in blockchain throughput.