Shareable case studies
These are the publishable artifacts for early user interviews: concrete trade stories, quantified execution loss, and a clear fair-ordering counterfactual. Base gas still exists; the savings come from reducing trade-specific execution loss.
Treasury rebalance on Base
Base · Uniswap v3 · USDC -> ETH · $48,000
A mid-sized treasury rebalance shows the classic bracket pattern: a price jump before inclusion, a worse fill for the victim, then an immediate reversal after the block.
Observed loss
$120
Attacker profit
$98
Saved under fair ordering
$108
WBTC inventory unwind
Base · Aerodrome · WBTC -> USDC · $92,000
A larger inventory unwind shows stronger sandwich economics: the trade is big enough to reward inventory-taking searchers, and the victim’s realized output diverges sharply from the pre-submit expectation.
Observed loss
$267
Attacker profit
$211
Saved under fair ordering
$236