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Front-running, flash bots and keeping things fair in the crypto market

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has the opportunity to democratize access to financial markets that have typically only been open to the rich and powerful. But, DeFi will only survive and continue to grow if we take steps to ensure things are safe, private and fair for both retail and institutional investors.

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Arbitrage bot’s spam attack on the Polygon network generated $6,800 per day

The growth of layer-two protocols has been one of the major stories of 2021 as the rising popularity of decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible tokens (NFT) have driven transaction costs higher on the Ethereum (ETH) network effectively pricing out many participants. Earlier this year the Polygon network, formerly known as MATIC,

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New Research Sheds Light on the Front-Running Bots in Ethereum’s Dark Forest

New research from the cryptocurrency wallet ZenGo has shed additional light on front-running attacks happening on the Ethereum blockchain. First outlined in “Ethereum Is a Dark Forest,” DeFi investors Dan Robinson and Georgios Konstantopoulos called attention to a variety of attacks by bots that were roving the Ethereum blockchain in search

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Meet The Malware That Uses Bitcoin’s Blockchain To Update Its Army of Bots

An advanced malware is utilizing messages hidden within Bitcoin‘s blockchain transactions. These messages send signals to a botnet army ready to attack at command.How exactly is this malware using Bitcoin’s blockchain and why?Glupteba, The Malware-Installing Trojan From 2011 That Uses Blockchain To Command An ArmyGlupteba, a backdoor Trojan designed to

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