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Your MEV protection may not work as you expect. We discuss our latest paper on protected order flow sandwich attacks and release an explorer to check if your protected transaction was sandwiched, and how.
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Does your MEV protection work? Not always.
TL;DR: Private RPCs, order-flow auctions, and chain-level protections are a clear improvement over the public mempool, the original “dark forest”. Yet they do not always hold. If you protect your
