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

Using weak seed phrases means instant loss of funds on the Bitcoin network. The concept of a blockchain "dark forest" has been popularized recently by Ethereum and the existence of front-running bots that will copy any profitable transaction pending for submission.The bots are able to assess if any given transaction that just entered the mempool can be replicated, and they will immediately publish their own copy with a much higher gas fee, which virtually guarantees that they will be the first to claim it. The term "dark forest" is inspired from a sci-fi novel and indicates a place where....

Most DeFi users have heard of Ethereum’s high congestion issues, but few are aware of the controlling forces operating behind the scenes, and how badly they can be impacted by this single problem. When traders send a regular transaction via the Ethereum network, it is susceptible to attacks from bots or front-running software run by […]

Front-running is a type of insider trading that affects an asset's market price. Read this guide to learn how to prevent front-running in crypto. How to prevent front-running in crypto?Users can limit front-running by splitting the transaction into many smaller transactions and adjusting the low slippage. Similarly, developers can use anti-front-running measures like making transactions private and using a hidden mempool. Users can break large transactions into smaller ones instead of executing them all at once, which reduces the appeal of transactions with front-running bots due to the....

Players can now earn xDAI by broadcasting planet locations in the space strategy game. Players of the decentralized real-time strategy game, Dark Forest, have introduced new and innovative ways of earning cryptocurrency within the virtual ecosystem.The play-to-earn plugin “Broadcast Market” was integrated into the game on May 31, according to a tweet by programmer Blaine Bublitz. The developer noted that Broadcast Market is the first plug-in featuring its own smart contract that directly communicates to Dark Forest.This is the first plugin that has its own smart contract that talks....

When the news of Ethereum 2.0 broke out, many people were beyond excited. The issue of transaction scalability and sustainability was going to be fixed. However, even Ethereum 2.0 left an essential problem out that crypto investors are still facing, an important problem known as FRONT RUNNING.  This problem resulted in the loss of thousands of dollars, and it is still causing the loss of more. Imagine the joy on people’s faces when Telos, a popular third-generation blockchain, announced their new EVM that claims to solve this problem and many more. Yes. Just what you thought. Hope at last!....