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According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the attacker of the MEV bot "JaredFromSubway" transferred 2000 ETH ($3.44 million) through Tornado Cash, sold 1422 ETH to obtain 2.446 million DAI, and currently has only 5 ETH ($8,630) left.

Members of the management team of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) and CSA Operator Aerugo published a systematic explanation of EF's mission. Aerugo stated that EF's core mission is to ensure that Ethereum becomes and continues to be a truly permissionless sovereign infrastructure: censorship-resistant, capture-resistant, open-source, private, and secure, capable of supporting large-scale trustless coordination.He emphasized that EF's focus is on eliminating extraction and capture risks that may arise at the protocol layer of Ethereum, particularly the two core challenges of MEV (Maximum Extractable Value) issues and the lack of default privacy. Aerugo described MEV as "the main battleground of the next cypherpunk war," and pointed out that "a public ledger without serious default privacy is a monitoring infrastructure with settlement guarantees."In addition, EF will move some of its work out of the foundation through spin-offs in the future, but will maintain strict standards for external funding. The recent departure of some personnel is part of normal organizational adjustments, and EF will handle it in a dignified manner without making personnel issues public.

The well-known MEV Bot address ae13 issued a white hat bounty notice on-chain to hackers, stating, "If 2,150 Ethereum is returned to this address within 48 hours, we are willing to pay 50% of the white hat bounty; otherwise, we will take all feasible legal and enforcement actions to hold accountable."According to previous reports, the well-known MEV robot Jaredfromsubway.eth (ae13), which has been active on the Ethereum network for a long time, was attacked by hackers exploiting vulnerabilities in the automated execution system, resulting in losses exceeding $75 million.

According to on-chain analysts, the well-known Ethereum MEV bot JaredFromSubway was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $7.5 million. The attacker constructed a false MEV arbitrage path, inducing the bot to automatically generate token approvals, and under the condition that the approvals were not revoked, used the open authorization to transfer WETH, USDC, and USDT from the bot's contract, with the funds ultimately flowing to the attacker's wallet address. Analysis indicates that this attack was not a traditional phishing or smart contract vulnerability, but a targeted exploitation of the bot's automation execution mechanism.

According to Shield Monitoring, an Ethereum MEV bot just unexpectedly transferred 167 ETH (worth about $300,000) to a random user.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin was subjected to a sandwich attack by the well-known MEV bot jaredfromsubway.eth while conducting a small token exchange.On-chain data shows that Buterin exchanged 26,544 XDB tokens worth approximately $3.86 for 0.00197 ETH (about $4.56) in block 24993038. The bot then called approximately $1.14 million WETH to manipulate prices between SushiSwap and Uniswap V2 to complete the sandwich attack, resulting in an actual loss for the bot after deducting a gas fee of $5.14.

SolanaFloor posted on platform X, stating that a suspected MEV bot conducted an MEV-style price manipulation attack on the ANB pool of Meteora, converting 0.22 USD USDC into 696,000 USD USDC in a single transaction. The ANB token dropped by 99%.

According to CoinDesk, Flare has announced a governance proposal to capture Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) at the protocol layer, with a newly established entity, FIRE, responsible for revenue reinvestment and the buyback and burn of FLR tokens.The plan includes a three-phase block construction overhaul: first, block builders will be designated by the Flare Entity, then Flare Confidential Compute will be introduced for public auditing, and finally, builders will be merged with proposers, with original validators transitioning to a verification role. The proposal also reduces the annual inflation rate of FLR from 5% to 3%, lowers the annual hard cap from 5 billion to 3 billion tokens, increases the base gas fee to 1,200 gwei, and is expected to raise the annual burn amount to 300 million tokens. These measures aim to optimize the network's economic model and enhance the transparency and security of the protocol.

Polygon announced the launch of the Private Mempool, a private transaction submission entry that protects each transaction from front-running and sandwich attacks.Simply replace the RPC address with the corresponding private entry to use this feature, with no additional operations required.

According to TheBlock, due to the de-pegging event of the deUSD stablecoin in October, which triggered automatic liquidations across multiple protocols, MEV Capital suffered losses exceeding $10 million, and the company's managed assets dropped by 80% from a peak of $1.5 billion to approximately $300 million.Belem Capital stated that it has terminated its management mandate with MEV Capital and will internalize the company's institutional asset management team to integrate risk and execution frameworks.

The official X post from the previously stolen DeFi execution engine Makina stated that on January 22 at 21:15, the MEV Builder returned the funds according to the SEAL white hat safe harbor, deducting a 10% bounty, amounting to approximately 920 ETH (out of a total of 1023 ETH received), which accounts for about 1299 ETH of the total stolen.The funds have been transferred to the recovered multi-signature 0xc22F...8AB9, and the team is continuing to pursue the remaining funds and seeking to contact the RocketPool validator address 0x573D...910E that received approximately 276 ETH.

According to market news, the MakinaFi platform was attacked, and hackers stole approximately 1,299 ETH, worth about 4.13 million dollars. Some transactions were front-run by MEV builders (address 0xa6c2...).The stolen funds are currently held in two addresses: 0xbed2...dE25 (approximately 3.3 million dollars) and 0x573d...910e (approximately 880,000 dollars).

The U.S. prosecution has submitted a letter to the Southern District of New York Federal Court opposing the court's acceptance of the amicus brief submitted by the digital asset advocacy organization DeFi Education Fund while considering whether to re-examine a case related to Ethereum MEV.U.S. Acting Attorney Jay Clayton stated in a document addressed to Judge Jessica Clarke that the brief "is detached from the trial record and merely reiterates legal arguments previously rejected by the court," and should not be accepted. The case involves brothers Anton and James Peraire-Bueno, who are accused of exploiting approximately $25 million through automated MEV bots on Ethereum. In November, the court declared a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on guilt or innocence. Subsequently, the U.S. government requested the court to schedule a retrial as soon as possible in late February or early March 2026.According to the draft brief submitted by DEF on December 19, the organization supports the dismissal of the case or a not guilty verdict, arguing that such prosecutions create uncertainty and fear for DeFi developers, potentially stifling industry innovation and driving participants away. The prosecution, however, contends that these views do not provide new legal grounds. The direction of the case remains unclear. If the brothers are found guilty of the same charges in the retrial, they could face up to 20 years in prison for each count. The outcome of the case is also seen within the industry as having significant implications for MEV behavior and the related compliance boundaries.

According to Coindesk, Ethereum core developers are advancing a major protocol upgrade named "Glamsterdam," scheduled to launch in 2026, focusing on addressing the maximum extractable value (MEV) fairness issues in the current network.One of the leading proposals for this upgrade is EIP-7732: Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS), which formally introduces the division of roles between Proposer and Builder at the protocol level, reducing reliance on centralized relays and external MEV infrastructure, thereby enhancing censorship resistance and fairness in the block production process.Another key proposal that complements this is EIP-7928: Block-level Access Lists, which allows blocks to pre-declare which accounts and contract data will be accessed, helping nodes to preload and reuse data more efficiently, making block execution faster and more predictable, and laying the groundwork for future scalability. The complete list of EIPs for Glamsterdam is still being finalized.

The U.S. court has been asked again to weigh in on the practice of Maximum Extractable Value (MEV). A judge has approved a motion to allow the amendment and resubmission of new evidence related to MEV trading practices in the class action lawsuit against Pump.fun, Jito Labs, and the Solana Foundation.The plaintiffs allege that Pump.fun uses MEV technology to allow insiders to acquire new tokens at a low price, which are then sold to retail participants after being pumped up, with retail participants serving as exit liquidity for the insiders. Solana Labs, Jito Labs, and others are mentioned in the allegations as having facilitated this.

Solana Ecosystem MEV-Based Liquid Staking Reward ProtocolToby announced at the Breakpoint conference the launch of the TOBY token, aimed at bringing foundational yield to Solana through OpenMEV.It is reported that OpenMEV plans to serve the $10 billion real yield demand in the ecosystem and will be integrated into several mainstream protocols such as Jupiter, Sanctum, Kamino, and Drift.

Aave officially announced on platform X that since its inception, Aave has processed nearly 295,000 liquidations, amounting to over $3.3 billion. These liquidations protect the protocol from bad debt and maintain system health. In light of this, based on the V3 liquidation mechanism, Aave V4 introduces a redesigned and optimized liquidation mechanism.Its main advantages include:Introduction of dynamic liquidation thresholds and automated auction mechanisms, reducing manual intervention and improving liquidation speed and capital efficiency;Reduction of slippage and manipulation risks during the liquidation process through the integration of on-chain oracles and MEV (Miner Extractable Value) protection;Support for partial liquidations and batch processing, allowing borrowers to avoid full liquidations at a lower cost.