mev-toolkit/sandwich

sandwiching

tl, dr

• sandwiching occurs when a searcher identifies a profitable trade in the mempool that will cause an impact on the price of an asset.

• a searcher buys or sells a calculated amount directly before the large trade is executed and then immediately exits their position after the large order has taken place, banking a profit.

• the main theme of sandwich attacks is slippage caused by available liquidity in the pool.

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in this dir

• interesting txs in the wild
• cross-trading arb like sandwich

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resources

• sandwich attacks on uniswap v2
• sandwich overview, by eigenphi
• modern mev sandwich attacks on ethereum routers, by totlsota.eth
• demystify the dark forest: sandwich attack, by coinmonks
• analysing execution quality in osmosis, by meka.tech