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 like an elephant in the room, the answer was: “Nothing. We can only hope that miners are honest and won’t do that.”
At the time, it wasn’t a palpable problem, but times have changed. Over the past year, the crypto sub-domain of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), has grown more popular and…
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 bought into a pool created just moments ago.
It was a pool that was trying to fake a token sale on Uniswap of an existing token sale campaign. The attackers had tried to mimic the CFI token, using a Fake-CFI token. …
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 much as it felt like an elephant in the room, the answer was: “Nothing. We can only hope that miners are honest and won’t do that.”
At the time, it wasn’t a palpable problem, but times have changed. Over the past year, the crypto sub-domain of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), has…
Mangata
Our mission is to bring fair rules for traders: a guarantee of low fixed-fees and reliable orders.
