{"id":625514,"date":"2026-07-07T06:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/trader-loses-2m-in-same-block-backrun-extraction-exploit\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T06:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:53:46","slug":"trader-loses-2m-in-same-block-backrun-extraction-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/trader-loses-2m-in-same-block-backrun-extraction-exploit\/","title":{"rendered":"Trader loses $2M in \u2018same-block backrun extraction\u2019 exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/magazine-bi-weekly-cybersecurity1.jpg\" alt=\"Trader loses $2M in \u2018same-block backrun extraction\u2019 exploit\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One crypto trader noted the $2 million loss could have been prevented had the victim read the transaction route before signing the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>A trader who swapped $2.01 million worth of Ether on a decentralized exchange has been left with just $14,500 worth of tokens after a router directed the order through a low-liquidity pool, allowing an Ethereum block builder to profit massively from a same-block arbitrage trade.<\/p>\n<p>The trader swapped 1,126.44 of Ether (ETH) but only received 5,776 Lighter (LIT) tokens, in a \u201ctextbook case of same-block backrun extraction,\u201d according to GoPlus Security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a real, highly imbalanced backrunner arbitrage, not a classic sandwich attack,\u201d GoPlus Security said. Titan Builder was the biggest beneficiary, walking away with $1.8 million from the transaction, which took place on Monday at 1:59 am UTC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/trader-loses-2m-in-same-block-backrun-extraction-exploit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One crypto trader noted the $2 million loss could have been prevented had the victim read the transaction route before signing the transaction. A trader who swapped $2.01 million worth of Ether on a decentralized exchange has been left with just $14,500 worth of tokens after a router directed the order through a low-liquidity pool, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":625515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-625514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}