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DeFi’s Unfair Advantage: How MEV and Front-Running Hurt Traders
4.5.2025
Unfair trading practices like MEV, slippage, and front-running have long plagued decentralized exchanges, eroding both profits and the core principles of fairness. David Wells suggests that traders can spot these problems by watching for unusually high slippage, trade executions...
Bitcoin treasury firms driving $200T hyperbitcoinization — Adam Back
27.4.2025
Investment firms with Bitcoin-focused treasuries are front-running global Bitcoin adoption, which may see the world’s first cryptocurrency soar to a $200 trillion market capitalization in the coming decade.Institutions and governments worldwide are starting to recognize the unique monetary...
Bitcoin treasury firms driving $200T hyperbitcoinization — Adam Back
27.4.2025
Investment firms with Bitcoin-focused treasuries are front-running global Bitcoin adoption, which may see the world’s first cryptocurrency soar to a $200 trillion market capitalization in the coming decade.Institutions and governments worldwide are starting to recognize the unique monetary...
Binance Wallet Suspends Staff Member Over Front-Running Allegations
25.3.2025
Binance did not name the token involved in the allegations, and confirmed that no insider trading took place
How the Peraire-Bueno brothers allegedly drained $25M from their MEV bots exploit
22.5.2024
The Peraire-Bueno brothers have been charged with fraud in a first-ever MEV bot exploit case. Here is what the DOJ claims they did to pull it off
Popular Crypto Wallet MetaMask Rolls Out 'Smart Transactions' to Combat Ethereum Front-Running
6.5.2024
It's the first step on a more ambitious roadmap to transform how Ethereum's biggest wallet works under the hood
Inside the 'Private Mempools' Where Ethereum Traders Hide From Front-Running Bots
31.1.2024
These private mempools – where blockchain transactions avoid the eyes of front-running bots – promise to offer better settlement and lower fees to Ethereum users, but experts are sounding the alarm bell on some big risks
KyberSwap Retrieves $4.7 Million After Security Attack
27.11.2023
Source: Pixabay The decentralized exchange protocol recovered the funds following a security attack last week. After the initial attack last week, KyberSwap said that it had lost a total of $47 million from its concentrating liquidity pools. Yesterday, a portion of the funds recovery...
Rogue Validator Exploits MEV Bots on Ethereum, Resulting in $25.3M in Crypto Losses
4.4.2023
On April 3, 2023, at Ethereum block height 16,964,664, a group of MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) bots were exploited for $25.3 million. An analysis of the exploit revealed that a renegade validator switched the MEV bots’ transactions and seized various crypto tokens, such as 7,460 wrapped...
Who was front-running Binance users?
30.3.2023
Information revealed in January indicated that the owner of 16 Ethereum addresses profited by purchasing tokens shortly before they were listed on Binance
Front-running scams rampant on YouTube with 500% surge in 2022: CertiK
2.12.2022
The scam lures victims to download fake front-running bot software that swipes their assets once they try to initiate a transaction
Token Front-Running Was Common at Coinbase Crypto Exchange, a New Study Argues
17.8.2022
Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney estimate that insider trading occurred on 10% to 25% of new crypto listings at Coinbase between September 2018 and May 2022, generating at least $1.5 million in profits for whomever was behind the transactions
Token Front-Running Was Common at Coinbase, a New Study Argues
17.8.2022
Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney estimate that insider trading occurred on 10% to 25% of new crypto listings at Coinbase between September 2018 and May 2022, generating at least $1.5 million in profits for whomever was behind the transactions
BIS report warns about front-running threat in crypto mining
17.6.2022
A fresh report from the Bank for International Settlements comes to a radical conclusion, claiming that the public identities of intermediaries are necessary to fight “miner extractable value.”
What is front-running in crypto and NFT trading?
27.3.2022
Front-running is a type of insider trading that affects an asset's market price. Read this guide to learn how to prevent front-running in crypto
Front-running, flash bots and keeping things fair in the crypto market
26.2.2022
We can’t allow failures of the past to come creeping back into the DeFi future — let’s stop the flash bots dead in their tracks
Panther Protocol’s $ZKP Token Launches, Sets to Revolutionize Private Finance
1.2.2022
In the growing DeFi panorama, both institutional traders and retail investors are starting to notice the inherent privacy issues with the most popular Layer-1 blockchains. The extreme transparency of L1s such as Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche, to name a few, leaves investors vulnerable to attacks...
Price spike: Are whales front-running the approval of a Bitcoin futures ETF?
7.10.2021
Bloomberg senior analyst Eric Balchunas says there is a 75% chance that the SEC will approve a Bitcoin futures ETF this month
Human Protocol Expands hCaptcha Tool, Launches Wallet to Make AI Smarter
15.6.2021
“Proof-of-HUMANity” could also thwart front-running DeFi bots
New Research Sheds Light on the Front-Running Bots in Ethereum’s Dark Forest
29.12.2020
The report outlines how the researchers identified and isolated generalized front-running bots while evaluating their efficiency