MEV bot earns $1M but loses everything to a hacker an hour later

Cointelegraph

Published Sep 28, 2022 05:57AM ET

Updated Sep 28, 2022 07:40AM ET

An Ethereum arbitrage trading bot managed to hit the jackpot and lose it all on the same day in an ironic turn of events in decentralized finance (DeFi).

In a Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) thread, Robert Miller, who works at the research firm Flashbots, shared how a Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) bot with the prefix 0xbadc0de was able to earn 800 Ether (ETH), around $1 million, through arbitrage trades.

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