well what do you know, the $clanker listing was front ran — that listing team or slack group or whatever has easily tripled their salary over the last 6 months lol

I remember working at CB and how seriously they took listing info and dates being confidential and that acting upon that information was a fireable offense, not to mention possible prosecution. What in the world happened? How has nearly every major base token listing on CB been frontrun so badly?

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I remain under the belief that this is not endemic, but they definitely need to do a complete investigation. Let's be clear about the state of affairs: Base is a centralized L2 and they operate the core infrastructure. They make no affordances to ensure privacy, and their culture of deep metrics collection ensures they have all the analytics in the world they would need to get to the root of this. The front runs aren't happening with forced inclusions at the L1, they have the data.

Exposure to the harsh realities of the present crypto space, employees need to get all the market has taken from them.

It's crazy to see, it's been this way since at least aerodrome. consistently!

didn’t some guy at OS get time for this?

Hopefully his case is reviewed in light of things now

Is there any clear evidence or documentation showing that the frontrunning in recent cb listings was actually due to internal information leaks, or could it be explained by other factors like onchain data analysis ?

Don’t know about a slack group but a lot of us assumed Coinbase would have clanker start trading the same time as Zora as a sad attempt to drown out competition for something they are heavily invested in

The space keeps losing it's credibility by the day