Subway-themed trading bot makes millions using ‘sandwich’ attacks

    The anonymous MEV bot operator’s best day was April 18, where he profited about $950,000. An anonymous Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) bot operator has cashed in well over $1 million this week by executing “sandwich attacks” against buyers and sellers of two new meme coins. The wallet address, linked to the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain “jaredfromsubway.eth”…

    Total Arbitrum accounts surpass 5M after airdrop hype: Report

    The milestone was accomplished less than one month after a much-anticipated airdrop. According to statistics compiled by user Henrystats on Dune Analytics, the number of accounts, or wallet addresses, for Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Arbitrum (ARB) surpassed 5 million on April 17. Aside from individual addresses, there are now more than four million active accounts in the…

    Aave’s proposal to launch on zkEVM passes ‘temperature check’ vote

    A proposal to deploy the third version of lending protocol Aave has recently passed a “temperate check” with an overwhelming favorable majority. A “temperature check” proposal to deploy the decentralized exchange (DEX) Aave on the zkSync Era Mainnet has passed with overwhelming support from the Aave community. When voting closed on April 16 more than 99%…

    Ether hits 11-month high as post-Shapella withdrawals pass 1M ETH

    Since the Shapella hard fork on April 12, Ether has seen a price gain of nearly 10%. Over 1 million Ether worth $2.1 billion has now been withdrawn from Ethereum’s Beacon Chain within the first four days of the Shapella hard fork and Ether has pushed over $2,100 for the first time in 11 months. The 1.03 million…

    Bitcoin, Ether are ‘like gold’ says Cathie Wood, but Ray Dalio is skeptical

    Cathie Wood thinks Bitcoin and Ether are acting as “risk-off” assets and as a “flight to safety” for investors amid macroeconomic uncertainty. Recent turmoil in the banking sector has shown that Bitcoin and Ether can withstand a shaky economy, outperform other asset classes and function like gold, says ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood — butone long-time…

    BlockSec launches collaborative testing toolkit for private forked chains

    With the toolkit, developers and security researchers can test, analyze and debug transactions via controlled private fork chains from the Ethereum mainnet. Blockchain security tech firm BlockSec has launched a new toolkit that enables collaborative testing on private chains “forked from arbitrary (transaction) positions” and block numbers on the Ethereum mainnet. The developer and security…