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MEV Protection Overview

Privacy notice: Flashbots Protect RPC does not track user information (i.e. IP, location, etc.). No user information is stored or logged.

Flashbots Protect is a secure way to protect Ethereum transactions from harmful front-running and sandwich attacks and to receive refunds on MEV generated from any back-running.

It has the following key benefits:

  • Configurable: You can choose which builders to send to and your mev-share settings.
  • Frontrunning protection: Transactions are sent to a private Flashbots mempool where they will be hidden from front-running and sandwich bots.
  • Receive refunds: If your transaction creates MEV via backrunning, you will receive an MEV refund through MEV-Share. If your transaction pays a higher priority fee than required for inclusion on chain, you will receive a gas fee refund.
  • Revert protection: Users do not pay for failed transactions since transactions that would revert are excluded.

You can use Flashbots Protect by clicking the button below or by sending transactions using eth_sendRawTransaction to rpc.flashbots.net/fast or the custom URL based on your advanced configuration below.



We want to thank MiningDAO, mistX, and Nethermind for significant code contributions, testing, and being early adopters of Flashbots Protect.