Front-running attacks on Blockchain: Transparent Dishonesty
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.