chore: Mitigate auction front-running (VE) #91
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im kind of confused by this pr, its unclear if its a tutorial or a walkthrough of something already existing? Who is the audience for this tutorial as well? Advanced users or beginners? |
I think the audience is more advanced users, because to be able to use vote extensions you need to already know lots of other things prior to this |
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| ## Simulation of Auction Front-Running | ||
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| To verify an occurrence of front-running, you can navigate to the logs and search for instances of `💨 :: Found a Bid to Snipe`. This specific log message indicates that the validator has identified a bid to potentially front-run. |
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This line maybe needs to be removed or moved a few paragraphs below, as it's something you are later instructed to do
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| ## Context | ||
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| For this tutorial we are using an example of an application that is mitigating auction front-running. |
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Can we expand a little bit on what the example application does? Explain beforehand that the application is an auctioning of namespaces, just a couple of lines is fine.
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| Front-running is a potential issue in blockchain systems where a participant gains an advantage by being able to perform actions or transactions ahead of others. In the context of this application, front-running can occur when a validator, who is also a proposer, spots a bid in the mempool and replaces it with their own higher bid. This is also known as "bid sniping". | ||
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| Please checkout https://github.com/fatal-fruit/abci-workshop to see the example. |
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can we get this migrated to the tutorial repo? we usually wouldnt allow this sort of linking for something we will end up hosting in the tutorial repo get merged as it will cause confusion later on.
we should also mention that the tutorial is in that repo and this walkthrough is assuming you have gone through the tutorial.
Tutorial for implementation of Vote Extensions. Uses https://github.com/fatal-fruit/abci-workshop. This will be moved across to the
sdk-tutorialsrepo next week but for now will point to the original repo that was used for the workshopCloses: #90