Yeah you saw it The trader who accidentally swapped $50 million $USDT for $36,000 $AAVE on Ethereum. This was a sandwich attack powered by MEV bots. Here’s how it works: - The bot scans the public Ethereum mempool - It sees your large swap pending - It jumps in before you Front-run: - The bot drains liquidity from the pool. - Your trade executes next. Because liquidity is gone, your swap fills at a terrible price. You get wrecked. Now the important part: How to avoid this - Use private RPCs Flashbots Protect sends your transaction privately. It never hits the public mempool. Bots can’t see it. ...