The bot that became infamous for targeting decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols under the name of Jaredfromsubway. eth is back with totally new and more evolved techniques reports Eigen. fi. This bot, earlier ranked among the three biggest traders on Uniswap, has been using one specific contract address to perform its profitable ‘sandwich’ attacks where transaction prices are otherwise manipulated to make profits.
A Missing and Reappearance of the Bot, Jared
Until recently, Jared’s bot was very active, it traded with the help of contract address 0x6b75….9a80. However, no trading activity was noticed after 7th August and totally ceased by 14th August. Speaking of incidents that occurred in early August, this stoppage resulted in concerns about the possibility of the closedown of the bot.
This was a busy bot for Jared before he went silent. From August 1 to 14, it paid out 851 Ether (approximately $2. 2 million) in grants to people who enable these trades.
The New and Enhanced Bot
Jared didn’t leave for long. An improved bot that is associated with the same account as the prior one has appeared with further techniques. Unlike the previous bot, this new bot has been relatively very active; it performed around forty thousand transactions in two weeks under a new contract address.
Such trades have produced 765 ETH in rewards, and as expected, Beaverbuild and Titan are among the biggest beneficiaries.
This Brings the Question: What is New in these attacks?
It has more elaborate courses of action in its aggressive tactics. While traditional sandwich attacks use high and low prices to place trades before and after the transaction, the new bot includes such additional actions as adding and removing liquidity from Uniswap pools on the same block with the target transaction. This makes the activity of the bot difficult to discover and stop.
However, since the bot is becoming more and more intelligent and selective, it is constantly searching for new ways to take advantage of these protocols and therefore remains a threat.
