Sandwich trading bots lose bread and butter in $25M exploit

Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) bots who were trying to perform “sandwich trades” got outsmarted by a rogue validator, leading to a loss of $25 million worth of digital assets. In a Twitter post, blockchain security firm CertiK highlighted that bots who were trying to execute sandwich transactions — spotting when traders are trying to purchase tokens and getting in between…