In Q1 2025, the virtuous cycle between Chainlink Build and Scale continued to be a powerhouse of innovation within the Chainlink ecosystem. Build and Scale teams—what have you been working on? Share with the community in the comments ↓

🔥 What an incredible inaugural Bleeding Edge Summit at @EthereumDenver! The event united some of the most brilliant minds in academic crypto research on a single, electrifying stage! 🧠🧠🧠⚡️ Missed the summit? Catch up on all the alpha here! 👇 #BES2025

Is anyone safe using DeFi? A user on @Uniswap v3 was just sandwiched attacked out of $216k while simply trying to swap $221k USDC to USDT. Mind you, this was a pool that had over $35m of USDC and USDT it. This is insane. How did it happen? An MEV bot front-ran the tx by swapping all the USDC liquidity out. After the transaction executed, they put back the liquidity. The attacker tipped a block builder (bobTheBuilder) $200k and profited $8k from this transaction. ----- A few ways to try to avoid this: 1. Reduce slippage tolerance on transactions 2. Don't use Uniswap. Use cowswap or another aggregator - which can provide better execution prevent this malicious MEV 3. Use a custom RPC that doesn't expose your transactions publicly ----- What is Uniswap's responsibility here? We can't live in a world where a user executes a simple swap of $221k in a liquid stablecoin pool and gets rugged. ---- P.S. data team @the_defi_report is cooking. Going deep on MEV to share the economics of various chains from the ground up. Might not be pretty. If you want to stay on top of all the insights we're sharing, you can sign up below 👇