{"id":87220,"date":"2026-08-30T09:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=87220"},"modified":"2026-08-30T09:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:06:13","slug":"mev-explained-ethereums-top-sandwich-bot-made-295m-then-lost-7-5m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=87220","title":{"rendered":"MEV Explained: Ethereum\u2019s Top Sandwich Bot Made $295M, Then Lost $7.5M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mev-explained-ethereums-top-sandwich-bot-made-295m-then-lost-7-5m6_nwmk-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"MEV attacks 101\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mev-explained-ethereums-top-sandwich-bot-made-295m-then-lost-7-5m6_nwmk-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mev-explained-ethereums-top-sandwich-bot-made-295m-then-lost-7-5m6_nwmk-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mev-explained-ethereums-top-sandwich-bot-made-295m-then-lost-7-5m6_nwmk-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mev-explained-ethereums-top-sandwich-bot-made-295m-then-lost-7-5m6_nwmk-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mev-explained-ethereums-top-sandwich-bot-made-295m-then-lost-7-5m6_nwmk-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mev-explained-ethereums-top-sandwich-bot-made-295m-then-lost-7-5m6_nwmk-760x428.jpg 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mev-explained-ethereums-top-sandwich-bot-made-295m-then-lost-7-5m6_nwmk.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">A single Ethereum contract has pulled in more than 117,000 ETH, roughly $295 million at current prices, sandwiching other traders since March 2023, and in June, an anonymous attacker turned its own playbook against it for a $7.5 million payday. The Hunter Becomes the Hunted Earlier this year in June, an unidentified attacker deployed 66 [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single Ethereum contract has pulled in more than 117,000 ETH, roughly $295 million at current prices, sandwiching other traders since March 2023, and in June, an anonymous attacker turned its own playbook against it for a $7.5 million payday. The Hunter Becomes the Hunted Earlier this year in June, an unidentified attacker deployed 66 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}