What Is a Sandwich Attack? How MEV Bots Exploit DeFi Swaps

https://preview.redd.it/rh8k7k7dcm7h1.png?width=1636&format=png&auto=webp&s=1483580816a5dcdf9904390613575f5e5e3cf0a7 A sandwich attack is a type of MEV attack where a bot places one transaction before a user's trade and another transaction after it to profit from the price movement caused by that trade. It is called a "sandwich" because the user's transaction gets placed between two attacker…