It occurs when a searcher detects a large pending trade on a decentralized exchange (DEX) and places a trade right before and right after it to benefit from an artificial price change
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What Is MEV, aka Maximal Extractable Value?
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A sandwich attack is a specific MEV strategy where an attacker places one transaction before and one transaction after a victim’s trade to profit from induced price changes in decentralized exchanges.
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