Self Sandwiching is the new Mixer
Classic sandwich attacks rely on public mempool visibility:The attacker front-runs a victim’s swap to move price.The victim executes at a worse rate.The attacker back-runs to lock in the spread.Normally, private relays (Flashbots Protect, Jito, MEV Blocker, CoW Swap, etc.) shield you from this by hiding orders from public bots. But if you control both sides, it is called Self-Sandwich How Self-Sandwiching WorksStep 1 — The Setup The Main Wallet places a very large buy/sell transaction in an i...
Self Sandwiching is the new Mixer
Classic sandwich attacks rely on public mempool visibility:The attacker front-runs a victim’s swap to move price.The victim executes at a worse rate.The attacker back-runs to lock in the spread.Normally, private relays (Flashbots Protect, Jito, MEV Blocker, CoW Swap, etc.) shield you from this by hiding orders from public bots. But if you control both sides, it is called Self-Sandwich How Self-Sandwiching WorksStep 1 — The Setup The Main Wallet places a very large buy/sell transaction in an i...
The Public DA Vector: Validator-Level Tip Theft in Autobahn
The public data availability (DA) MEV attack vector highlighted by Sei Research prompted me to reflect on a key architectural divergence between Sei and chains like Aptos or Sui: validator differentiation in transaction dissemination. While Aptos and Sui employ broadcast-based protocols that ensure all validators see a largely uniform transaction mempool, Sei takes the opposite approach—intentionally fragmenting the view of the mempool by allowing each validator to maintain a private batch of...
The Public DA Vector: Validator-Level Tip Theft in Autobahn
The public data availability (DA) MEV attack vector highlighted by Sei Research prompted me to reflect on a key architectural divergence between Sei and chains like Aptos or Sui: validator differentiation in transaction dissemination. While Aptos and Sui employ broadcast-based protocols that ensure all validators see a largely uniform transaction mempool, Sei takes the opposite approach—intentionally fragmenting the view of the mempool by allowing each validator to maintain a private batch of...
The next Trillion-Dollar market: pump.fun
Throughout history, memetic propagation—the spread of ideas, narratives, and ideologies—has evolved alongside media technology. In the 1500s, Gutenberg's printing press gave rise to the pamphlet revolution. Ideas, once confined to oral tradition or hand-written manuscripts, suddenly scaled across Europe. The market cap of the print industry steadily grew: ~$0.35B (1500), ~$0.6B (1600), ~$1.25B (1700), ~$2.7B (1800), and exploded to ~$120B (1900, all inflation-adjusted).In the 1930s, radi...
The next Trillion-Dollar market: pump.fun
Throughout history, memetic propagation—the spread of ideas, narratives, and ideologies—has evolved alongside media technology. In the 1500s, Gutenberg's printing press gave rise to the pamphlet revolution. Ideas, once confined to oral tradition or hand-written manuscripts, suddenly scaled across Europe. The market cap of the print industry steadily grew: ~$0.35B (1500), ~$0.6B (1600), ~$1.25B (1700), ~$2.7B (1800), and exploded to ~$120B (1900, all inflation-adjusted).In the 1930s, radi...
MEV MEV everywhere, where to go?
A Case Study of DAG-Based Consensus and MEV Exposure in Mysticeti, Raptr, Autobahn, and Vanilla Narwhal/BullsharkMaximal Extractable Value (MEV) represents the value that can be (and is!) extracted from blockchain networks by those who have the ability to influence how and when transactions are processed. We gather together some transactions, then put them in a waiting pool and then process them one by one - simple mechanism which is used in Bitcoin and Ethereum But why, no MEV on bitcoin but...
MEV MEV everywhere, where to go?
A Case Study of DAG-Based Consensus and MEV Exposure in Mysticeti, Raptr, Autobahn, and Vanilla Narwhal/BullsharkMaximal Extractable Value (MEV) represents the value that can be (and is!) extracted from blockchain networks by those who have the ability to influence how and when transactions are processed. We gather together some transactions, then put them in a waiting pool and then process them one by one - simple mechanism which is used in Bitcoin and Ethereum But why, no MEV on bitcoin but...
Jito = Lido + Flashbots + EigenLayer: The Next $B Infrastructure Bet on Solana
IntroductionSolana’s staking infrastructure is rapidly evolving, driven by the explosive growth of liquid staking tokens (LSTs). As the ecosystem pushes toward decentralizing validator infrastructure, key challenges like the lack of mempool, slashing, spam, and MEV dominate the landscape—setting Solana apart from Ethereum due to its unique consensus and parallel execution. At the forefront of solving these challenges is Jito, a protocol offering high-performance infrastructure, analytics, and...
Jito = Lido + Flashbots + EigenLayer: The Next $B Infrastructure Bet on Solana
IntroductionSolana’s staking infrastructure is rapidly evolving, driven by the explosive growth of liquid staking tokens (LSTs). As the ecosystem pushes toward decentralizing validator infrastructure, key challenges like the lack of mempool, slashing, spam, and MEV dominate the landscape—setting Solana apart from Ethereum due to its unique consensus and parallel execution. At the forefront of solving these challenges is Jito, a protocol offering high-performance infrastructure, analytics, and...
