Front-running attacks on Blockchain: Transparent Dishonesty

Aliasgar Merchant
6 min readOct 2, 2020

What is Front-Running?

In the days when stocks were really exchanged on paper, on the floor of the stock trade, front-running alluded to the act of rushing to the front of the line when you realized some huge exchange was coming (shrewd name, right?). For example, in the event that you realized somebody was going to purchase a colossal measure of some stock, you could get it before them, at that point sell it at a higher market cost after their huge purchase experienced.

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Aliasgar Merchant

Novice astrophysicist in Cosmos. Building the next revolution of BFT consensus with CometBFT. I write about Blockchain related concepts.