One year ago, we were attending a conference in Berlin and watching a panel discussion about the state of Ethereum. Gleb, our CTO, asked something that had been haunting him for a while: “What prevents miners from replacing user transactions and frontrunning with their own?” As much as it felt…

By Gleb Urvanov and Stanislav Vozarik While conducting on-chain research last night, our team was experimenting with several strategies involving front-running Ethereum transactions. During this process, a unique attack vector came across our radar. While running a test bot that was benchmarking across a few Uniswap pools, our bot mistakenly…

By Peter Kris and Gleb Urvanov — One year ago, we were attending a conference at the Technical University of Berlin and watching a panel discussion about the state of Ethereum. Gleb, our CTO, asked something that had been haunting him for a while: “What prevents miners from replacing user transactions and frontrunning with their own?” As…

The growth of the Polkadot ecosystem has made it clear that many of the market’s chains are plagued by unfair frontrunning practices, rising fees, and slow settlements, causing significant losses. As the industry continues its scalability narrative of faster and efficient base layers, these ever-present setbacks need to be addressed. …