Trader Makes $100K in Seconds Front-Running Token Listing on Binance

An unidentified crypto trader made over $100,000 in profit after buying a token just minutes before it was listed on dominant crypto exchange Binance, according to analysis by on-chain sleuth Lookonch...

Grogan blasts alleged front-running scheme at Binance

The head of product and business operations at Coinbase, Conor Grogan, slammed Binance for allowing unknown actors to front-run trades. Grogan has claimed to trace patterns stretching for up to 18 mon...

Coinbase’s Conor Grogan Slams ‘Binance Front-Running Pattern’ Community Disagrees

Vladislav Sopov Grogan, head of product at Coinbase, explains why Binance’s front-running issues might be more dangerous than they seemed Contents Coinbase’s Grogan unveils two possible sc...

Top Cardano-powered DEX MinSwap saw front-running exploit

Minswap investigates a front-running attack on its platform after a user called their attention to a suspicious transaction.  Minswap, one of Cardano’s foremost multi-pool decentralized exchanges, exp...

Leading Cardano DEX Suffers Front-Running Attack

Alex Dovbnya The largest decentalized exchange on the Cardano blockchain claims that it has already fixed the issue Minswap, the very first multi-pool decentralized exchange on Cardano, has experience...

Hike of Over 500% in Front-Running Scam Bots on YouTube 

    Scam Via Videos  Pioneer blockchain security company CertiK, reported that the hike in usage of front-running scam bots on YouTube in the form of videos accounted for 500%...

Front-running scams rampant on YouTube with 500% surge in 2022: CertiK

Front-running scam bots are significantly gaining traction on YouTube, with the number of dubious videos increasing six-fold in 2022 according to a new report from blockchain security firm CertiK. In ...

Front-running crypto scams record 500% surge in 2022: Report

According to a report dated 1 December from blockchain security company CertiK, there will be a six-fold increase in questionable content on YouTube because of the tremendous growth of front-running s...

DEX aggregator 1inch to protect MetaMask users from frontrunning

Decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch is introducing a feature called RabbitHole that’s designed to prevent MetaMask users from getting hit by a certain form of frontrunning. The issue a...

Alameda Research Was Frontrunning FTX Token Listings: Report

Alameda Research used prior knowledge of tokens that were scheduled to be listed on FTX to buy them ahead of the public announcements and then sold them for a profit, according to an analysis from cry...

BIS report warns about front-running threat in crypto mining

Since 2020, miners on the Ethereum blockchain have extracted around $600 million from other investors by miners, according to a new report by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) focusing on c...

Coinbase Changes Listing Policy for New Tokens After Allegations of Front-Running

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong yesterday addressed concerns that traders have been taking advantage of the company’s listings process, writing in a blog post that the company will be adopting new polici...

Coinbase Unveils Stern Measures To Curb Potential Leaks and Front-Running Related to New Crypto Listings

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is rolling out new measures aimed at preventing market participants from taking advantage of loopholes in its digital asset listing process. In a new blog post, Coinba...

What is front-running in crypto and NFT trading?

Wash trading is when an investor sells and buys the same asset to inflate the value of security artificially. On the other hand, a front-running attack on a blockchain occurs when a malicious user dis...

Front-running, flash bots and keeping things fair in the crypto market

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has the opportunity to democratize access to financial markets that have typically only been open to the rich and powerful. But, DeFi will only survive and continue to gro...