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Head First DeFi: TX & Strategies
  • Decoding the DNA of DeFi Transactions & Strategies
    • From Arbitrage, Sandwich to JIT and Oracle Manipulation
    • Be Prepared To Explore the DeFi World
    • Case Study Format
  • MEV Transaction & Strategy 101
    • A $3.2 Million Profit Arbitrage, the Most Lucrative MEV of 2022
    • Understand Back-Run Arbitrages and Their Signals and Join the MEV Game.
    • Wallchain's MEV Arbitrage Redistribution
    • MEV Blocker, the multi-transaction MEV redistribution system that refunds 90% of builder rewards
    • With NFT arbitrage, someone was snipping your Baby Doge.
    • The Hidden Tax That You Should Know About
    • MEV-Share, Flashbots' MEV Redistribution Solution
  • Don't Let Your Trading Become the Recipe of Someone's Sandwich
    • The Notorious Jaredfromsubway.eth's Sandwich Attack
    • Combined with Flash Loan, This Leveraged Sandwich Launched the Attack with Millions of Volumes
    • Sandwich Targeting Liquidity Providers
    • The Flash-Loan-Enabled Sandwich Attack against Ethereum Foundation
  • Under the Hood of the DeFi Lego
    • What's Really Going on When Processing Liquidity in a Uniswap Pool?
      • Pretend You Are One of the Shareholders of a Bank Branch.
      • Let's Match the Bank Branch to a Uniswap Pool.
      • Adding Liquidity.
      • Removing Liquidity.
      • Conclusion
    • Liquidation: A Good Entry Point to Comprehend Internal Accounting Used by Many DeFi Protocols.
    • A Cross-Chain Arbitrage: The Art of Arbitraging BANANA Cross BSC and Polygon Chains
    • Liquidity Rebalancing: Moving Around $9.4 Million for More Fee Revenues.
    • Rebalancing loan positions utilizing AAVE Flash loan
    • How Does the Grok Token Exploiter Exploit the X Token By Baking His Own Cake And Eating it?
  • Unlocking the Power of Advanced DeFi Transactions and Becoming a DeFi Sleuth
    • Just-in-Time, an MEV Type That Benefits Traders in the Same Trading Venue
    • A Bot Devised Arbitrage Strategies Centered on Autonomous Minting and Burning of Synthetic Tokens
    • The Defect in a Lending Protocol's Oracle Module Was Exploited by a Bot to Generate a $110K Profit
    • A $296K-Profit Arbitrage Done by the Lightning Reflex Bot After the Vyper-Curve Exploit
    • Coffeebabe.eth Utilized Curve's CRV/WETH Pool's Price Deviation for a $5.4 Million Profit Arbitrage.
    • An Attacker Baited MEV Arbitrage Bots and Emptied Their Wallets
    • How Enso Solves 73.5ETH in 116 Steps in One Transaction
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Don't Let Your Trading Become the Recipe of Someone's Sandwich

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In a sandwich attack, the searchers/attackers 'sandwich' the victim's transactions between their own two transactions, called the front-run and the back-run. The victimized users suffer an implicit loss when these attackers reorder the transactions to benefit themselves.

You can visit the in to understand more about the basic idea behind it.

Next, we will walk you through some sandwich cases to show you how dangerous Sandwich MEV can be in terms of strategies under attack.

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Sandwich MEV introduction
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The notorious Jaredfromsubway.eth's Sandwich attack.
Combined with Flash Loan, this leveraged Sandwich launched the attack with millions of volumes
Liquidity providers can also be victims of Sandwich, as shown in this case.
Even the Ethereum Foundation couldn't escape the claw of this flash-loan-enabled Sandwich MEV.