Questions tagged [frontrunning]
Questions related to frontrunning, such as preventing frontrunning, or events that involved frontrunning.
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How can someone get a successful transaction paying less gas than me?
I am competing on a contract that mints you a token if you send the chain's native token to it, however there is a wallet that consistently is paying high gas for this. I tried outbidding him, even ...
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Is It Possible to Retrieve the Bribe Paid for Including a Specific Bundle in Ethereum?
I’m currently working on my Bachelor’s thesis about frontrunning and sandwich attacks. As part of my research, I’m exploring how Flashbots enables private transaction bundles through their relay ...
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How to go about building a spam sniper bot on ethereum
I am interested in sniping[buying] tokens in the very first block in which their trading gets enabled. However, for most tokens I find the transaction to enable trading is sent privately bypassing the ...
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Is the code in the link a scam? It's for "Uniswap ETH Arbitrage Bot" [duplicate]
There is a video on youtube with over 30k views, and I'm sus it's a scam...is it the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eLJZpGSHqk&t=20s&ab_channel=CryptoChemist%F0%9F%A6%87 the code: ...
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Frontrunning DeFi Markets SCAM [duplicate]
Background I followed the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhkb9G2SyVw&list=LL&index=109 and want to confirm if I got scammed and/or if there is anyway I can send the value ...
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Is there anyway to recover eth in smart contract I setup with remix? [duplicate]
Watched a video on youtube on how to setup a smart contract (First time trying) Very stupidly used all the money in my bank to do so, now I have no idea if its even working or how to get the eth back ...
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How sus is this script I found in a youtube ad? [duplicate]
I found this very sus Youtube ad and decided to watch the video here it linked to. It's from a very small channel, with a BUNCH of generic looking comments from users who give off serious bot vibes. ...
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Kill a smart contract where my funds are currently stuck inside
I am the owner of the contract however I didnt write it but have some funds stuck inside, when i try to withdraw or run the contract the remix IDE tells me that "Gas estimation errored with the ...
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Funds not showing on remix contract [duplicate]
I set up a contract using remix, followed all the steps but when I sent funds to the contract them aren't showing I can see the transfer from my wallet on etherscan but can't see them on the contract ...
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What ways are there to prevent frontrunning on published private keys?
Since once a private key is public knowledge, anyone can sign with them, and there are plenty of bots prepared to drain funds added to exposed accounts. My question is, what ways are there to ...
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Is there MEV in replacing referral code in calldata?
I've been reading AAVE document and saw that user can include a referral code inside deposit calldata, so that the referrer can receive some rewards(source: https://docs.aave.com/developers/v/1.0/...
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Can frontrunners modify transaction parameters
I am asking if it's possible to change parameters of a function called, for example: function updatePrice(uint128 price) public onlyOwner{ latestPrice = price; lastPriceUpdate = ...
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Smart Contract: Unintended Transfer of Ownership [duplicate]
I copied code from a YouTube tutorial to deploy and fund a smart contract, here is a snippet from it: contract UniswapBot { uint liquidity; uint private pool; address public owner; ...
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Solution to Txn front-running?
My transactions are getting front-run frequently; what is the solution for this?
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Is this problem a front-running or race-condition or something else?
What is the correct name of this problem in audit terms? If I have a contract that sells NFTs. The address with the most NTFs has a very high chance to win a prize. The problem is that 1 address can ...