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MEV and AI Agents on Monad: Protecting Your Trades
What MEV means for autonomous agents on Monad, how front-running and sandwich attacks work, and practical ways to reduce exposure.
What MEV is
Maximal extractable value is profit captured by reordering, inserting, or censoring transactions. Sandwich attacks place trades before and after yours to profit from your price impact.
Why agents are targets
Agents can be predictable: same time, same pool, same size. Predictability invites exploitation.
Defenses
Use tight slippage limits, split large orders, randomize timing, prefer deeper pools, and use private submission routes where available. Simulate expected output and reject trades that deviate.
Agents as searchers
Some agents pursue arbitrage themselves. This is highly competitive and demands low latency and careful contract design.
Learn more
Check monaf.ai for AI trading developments on Monad.
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