Comment of the Month: November 2022

[zube.paul]

I am nominating @Samuel94 for their analysis of a sandwich attack. In addition to working through an example of a a sandwich attack, this post also put forward additional solutions or behaviors users could adopt. These are good points to continue the conversation around Kyber DMM.

Research Summary: Mitigating Sandwich Attacks in Kyber DMM

@Ulysses Thanks for coming up with this patent summary of sandwich attack. From your summary I gleaned the problem statement emanated from the inability of the second access point of Kyber, pool contract to withstand attack as a result of lack of code correction. I also, understand that the research proposed a solution albeit a theoretical one. I agree with you that Decentralized finance has risen to be one of the sorts after aspect of DLT, because of its ability to entrust trust in a trustles…