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Anatomy of a Sandwich: Reconstructing a Single MEV Attack Block-by-Block
On October 9, 2023, the Ethereum Foundation sold 1,700 ETH on Uniswap and got sandwiched. We reconstruct the attack, transaction by transaction.
Trace-level reconstructions of real MEV activity on Ethereum — sandwich attacks, block builders, and the economics of transaction ordering, one concrete case at a time.
On October 9, 2023, the Ethereum Foundation sold 1,700 ETH on Uniswap and got sandwiched. We reconstruct the attack, transaction by transaction.