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By Maheen Hernandez
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How One Bot Captured 70% of Ethereum's Sandwich Activity. Ethereum's transaction sequencing has always had soft spots.
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Ethereum Developers Scramble for Countermeasures. The Ethereum developer community isn't ignoring it. Discussions are ongoing about potential…
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A single bot. $7.5 million gone. And the Ethereum network still doesn't have a clean answer for how it happened at this scale.
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The bot known as jaredfromsubway.eth basically owned the sandwich attack game on Ethereum between November 2024 and October 2025, accounting for 70% of all such attacks during…
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But the sheer concentration of them in one bot's hands is what makes jaredfromsubway.eth different.
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Ethereum's transaction sequencing has always had soft spots. The way transactions sit in the mempool — publicly visible before they're confirmed — creates a window that…
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The identity behind the bot is still murky. Blockchain technology gives operators a layer of anonymity that's genuinely hard to crack, and whoever built jaredfromsubway.
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What's clear is the financial damage. $7.5 million extracted from traders who probably didn't even know they were being sandwiched in real time.
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Related: Ethereums $30 Million Development Gap Puts 10-Plus Teams at Risk
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The Ethereum developer community isn't ignoring it. Discussions are ongoing about potential upgrades and protocol changes that could reduce the attack surface for bots like this…
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Some of the conversations are focused on transaction sequencing itself — whether there are ways to reduce the mempool's transparency in ways that don't break other things.
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That's probably the honest place to be. Rushing a fix for something this technically complex could create new vulnerabilities. And jaredfromsubway.
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Decentralized finance protocols have been hit hard by this kind of activity broadly, not just from this one bot.
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More context: Litecoins Double-Spend Patch Sits Unused on 70% of Nodes Two Months Later
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And that's what makes the $7.5 million figure worth sitting with for a second. It's not just a theft number.
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