Beware of Sandwich Attacks
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3 min readJul 7, 2023
I know what you are thinking here … seagulls or your office mates!
But, no, a sandwich attack on a blockchain network is where a malicious entity — Eve — looks at the pending transactions on a blockchain network and then places one before and after the valid transaction. This means that the inserted transaction will occur before the valid one and straight after it. This can have the effect of manipulating asset…