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The rise of Flashbots has sprouted an interest in MEV among the entire Web3 ecosystem. Competitors have appeared in Ethereum, such as Manifold , which competes with Flashbots in the block-building space with non-compliant OFAC blocks.
Gonzalo Hirsch • Enter the MEV Void: the Rise of Flashbots
1. Spent the past few weeks going down a rabbit hole learning about MEV and Flashbots — very cool stuff! I was surprised to learn that beneath the surface, Ethereum is lurking with sniper bots waiting for any opportunity to make money. Here’s a TLDR on some research + findings. https://t.co/PMSVi6xnzW
Buuuuut of course shady trading bots also come with their downsides. Various MEV strategies can result in greater slippage (worse prices) on token swaps, failed transactions because trades were front-run, and have historically contributed to higher gas prices for all users as bots spammed the network with transactions.
Mark Bissell • Intern Breakdown #2: MEV
farming airdrops is even more cooked with browsermcp
it creates a mcpserver that hooks into existing user browser session through a chrome extension making it almost impossible to detect that the actions were taken by an agent and not a human https://t.co/qmDEL1puz0
Flashbots
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