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Sandwich Attack

An MEV strategy where an attacker front-runs a victim's DEX trade (buying before them to move the price up) and back-runs it (selling immediately after). The victim gets a worse price; the attacker profits from the spread. Targets large DEX swaps with wide slippage tolerance.

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