MEV: Introduction

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Patrick introduces and details the concept of MEV and MEV bots.

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Smart Contract Security

Course Introduction

Duration: 25min

Section 1: Review

Duration: 1h 18min

Section 2: What is a smart contract audit

Duration: 35min

Section 3: Your First Audit | PasswordStore

Duration: 2h 16min

Section 4: Puppy raffle

Duration: 5h 03min

Section 5: TSwap

Duration: 5h 22min

Section 6: Thunder Loan

Duration: 4h 33min

Section 7: Boss Bridge

Duration: 2h 01min

Section 8: MEV & Governance

Duration: 1h 40min

1. Introduction

We're introduced to the section with Patrick and encouraged to strength our skills through consistent practice. Duration: 1min

2. Perseverance

Patrick explains why Vault Guardians won't be covered together and encourages community collaboration! Duration: 3min

3. MEV: Introduction

Patrick introduces and details the concept of MEV and MEV bots. Duration: 4min

4. MEV: Minimized

Patrick discusses examples of MEV vulnerabilities as detailed in the sc-exploits-minimized repo. Duration: 1min

5. MEV: Puppy Raffle

MEV Vulnerabilities in Puppy Raffle discussed! Duration: 2min

6. MEV: TSwap

MEV Vulnerabilities in TSwap discussed! Duration: 2min

7. MEV: ThunderLoan

MEV Vulnerabilities in Thunder Loan discussed! Duration: 2min

8. MEV: BossBridge

MEV Vulnerabilities in Boss Bridge discussed! Duration: 1min

9. MEV: LIVE

Patrick demonstrates himself getting front ran in a recording of a live example. Duration: 12min

10. MEV: Live AGAIN

Patrick highlights the ability of MEV bots to bypass attempts at blocking them, even with added complexity or obscurity in a smart contract. Duration: 6min

11. Case Study: Pashov

The legendary Pashov walks us through a case study of MEV Exploitation. Duration: 24min

12. MEV: Prevention

Learn how to improve contract design, using private mempools, and implementing slippage protection against MEV bots. Duration: 4min

13. MEV: Recap

Patrick focuses on prevention and mitigation in this lesson on MEV vulnerabilities. Duration: 2min

14. Governance Attack: Intro

Guest speaker Juliette Chavalier introduces us to the mechanisms of a governance attack. Duration: 7min

15. Case Study: Bean

Patrick walks us through the Beanstalk case study wherein a flashloan was leveraged in a governance attack. Duration: 20min

16. End Part 1

A final recap and congratulations for completion of Part 1 of the Security Course! Well done! Duration: 9min

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