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Phantom Millions: Why Sandwich Attack Statistics Are Broken

Three sandwich attacks reported as $4.7M in profit were actually worth close to zero. A forensic look at how low-liquidity token pricing distorts MEV dashboards - and why it matters for protocol design, regulation, and the dark forest narrative.

JIT Liquidity: Two Economic Regimes, One Block

A study of 442,000 JIT bundles on Uniswap v3 reveals that public and private execution channels create fundamentally different economics - with measurable consequences for builders, searchers, and passive LPs.