⚡️ RESEARCH: About 38% of sandwich attacks target low-volatility pools including stablecoins, wrappers, and LSTs, with 12% hitting stable swaps where slippage is most unexpected.The most actively targeted pair outside stablecoins was memecoin MANYU/WETH, where one attacker extracted nearly $19,000 across 65 sandwich attacks since July. ...

Technology & Innovation - Batched Threshold Encryption (BTE) technology has the potential to redefine fairness in DeFi by mitigating frontrunning and sandwich attacks, which are central to extractive MEV [1] - The BEAST-MEV upgrade significantly reduces decryption times to under 1 second for approximately 500 transactions [2] - The upgrade requires only 6KB communication and features silent, non-interactive setup, marking a substantial improvement over previous models [2] DeFi Market Impact - BTE could be a breakthrough for making DeFi fair, private, and trustless [3]