diff --git a/MEV_on_Ethereum/frontrunning.md b/front_running/README.md similarity index 99% rename from MEV_on_Ethereum/frontrunning.md rename to front_running/README.md index d3c5fcd..ce31151 100644 --- a/MEV_on_Ethereum/frontrunning.md +++ b/front_running/README.md @@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ * process by which an adversary observes transactions on the network layer and then acts upon this information by, for instance, issuing a competing transaction, with the hope that this transaction is mined before a victim transaction. + + * example: transaction A is broadcasted with a higher gas price than an already pending transaction B so that A gets mined before B. + + * rather than programming complx algorithms to detect profitable MEV opportunities, some searchers run generalized frontrunners. These are bots that watch the mempool to detect profitable transactions. + + * frontrunners will copy the potentially profitable transaction's code and replace addresses with theirs. Then, they submit the modified transaction with the replaced address and a higher gas price, frontrunning the original transaction and getting the searcher's MEV.