Using intimate knowledge of upcoming transactions to join the market ahead of rivals is known as “front-running” in the stock market. It is therefore a form of insider trading. Read More: front run bot Front-running occurs in nonfungible token (NFT) marketplaces as well as the stock market and decentralized finance (DeFi) domain. It happens as […]
Uncovering the Front-Running Bots in Ethereum’s Dark Forest: New Research
DeFi investors Dan Robinson and Georgios Konstantopoulos first brought attention to a range of assaults by bots that were prowling the Ethereum blockchain in search of victims in “Ethereum Is a Dark Forest.” Read More: front run bot In the recently released study from ZenGo, the researchers describe how they found and segregated generic front-running […]