Your trade. Not theirs.
Public blockchains are public — every pending transaction is visible to anyone running a node. Searcher bots watch that mempool 24/7 looking for trades they can sandwich. Clawd Sniper's anti-MEV routing makes that attack mathematically impossible on every entry.
What is MEV?
MEV — Maximal Extractable Value — is the profit miners + searchers can extract by reordering, inserting, or censoring transactions in a block. On a transparent blockchain, your pending swap is visible. Bots compete to insert their own trades around yours.
For a normal user this means buying at a worse price than the chart shows. For a memecoin sniper this means losing the entry advantage that made the trade worth doing.
Three attacks Clawd's routing blocks.
Sandwich attack
Bot sees your large buy in the public mempool, front-runs it with their own buy (pumping the price), lets your trade fill at the higher price, then sells right after for guaranteed profit.
You pay 1–8 % more than necessary on every entry over $1K, depending on chain congestion + pool depth.
Frontrunning
Bot detects your pending swap and copies it with higher priority gas, getting filled first at the better price you would have had.
Common on Ethereum + Base where pending transactions sit in the mempool for several seconds before block inclusion.
Back-running
Bot waits until your trade lands, then immediately fires their counter-trade in the same block to capture the price impact you created.
Doesn't directly take your money but distorts the price you exit at and can saturate routing options.
Four layers, fired in order.
Private relays
Every entry routes through MEV-protected relays (Flashbots Protect, Jito on Solana, BloxRoute on BNB) where supported. Your transaction never enters the public mempool — searcher bots can't see it before it's already mined.
Bundled transactions
Where private relays support bundling, the entry + initial slippage check + safety hooks ship in a single bundle. Bundle either lands together or fails together — no half-state where attackers can slip in.
Encrypted mempool fallback
On chains without first-class private relays, transactions go through encrypted mempools (e.g. SUAVE-style) so the trade contents are hidden until inclusion.
Slippage hardening
Even past the relay, the slippage tolerance is computed per-trade based on pool depth. The Router will refuse a fill if the realised price impact exceeds the trade's risk budget — sandwich attempts get rejected at execution.
Private relays are sometimes ~50–200ms slower than the public mempool because they hold the transaction until block inclusion. For an HFT-style strategy that'd matter; for memecoin sniping where price moves on a 1–10s timescale, the protection is worth the latency. You can't turn anti-MEV off — it ships on every entry by default.