# Transparent Dishonesty: Blockchain Front-Running Taxonomy by Shayan Eskandari (Devcon5)

- Channel: [Devcon](https://streameth.org/devcon)
- Date: 2020-10-09
- Duration: 05:07
- Topics: blockchain, smart contracts, distributed ledger, ethereum
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-tVgto0GtA4I
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVgto0GtA4I

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Front-running has been an issue in financial instrument markets since the 1970s. With the advent of the blockchain technology, front-running has resurfaced in new forms we explore here, instigated by blockchains decentralized and transparent nature. In this paper, we draw from a scattered body of knowledge and instances of front-running across the top 25 most active decentral applications (DApps) deployed on Ethereum blockchain, and an instance of abnormal behaviour of a mining pool to participate in an ICO. We also introduce a taxonomy of front-running attacks on blockchain and map the proposed solutions to front-running into useful categories.
Published at Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2019: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05164

Speaker(s): Shayan Eskandari
Skill level: Advanced
Track: Economics
Keywords: academic

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