mev-toolkit/sandwich/cross_trading.md

cross-trading arbitrage like sandwich

tl; dr

• a sandwich arbitrage has characters as below:

  • in the same block, the attacker's transactions contain a start transaction, an end transaction, and one or more victim transactions in between
  • the combination of attacker and victim needs to satisfy an essential condition: the from address is not the same

• the CombinedTransferTable of each transaction contains the same Address processing the Trade. Combining the Attacker's Start Transaction and End Transaction give the CombinedTransferTable of this arbitrage having the final net surplus.