The public waiting room (the “mempool”)
When you send a transaction, it doesn’t go straight into the blockchain. First it sits in a public waiting room called the mempool. Anyone in the world can watch this room and see what’s coming. Your transaction sits there, in plain sight, until it gets added to a block.How bots make money off you
Bots watch that waiting room all day looking for ways to profit by jumping in front of other people’s trades. (The fancy name for this is MEV. You don’t need to remember it.) For a token launch, the classic attack is the snipe:- You send “turn on trading.” It sits in the public waiting room.
- A sniper bot spots it and instantly sends its own buy, paying a higher fee to go first.
- The bot buys at your lowest, opening price.
- Your wallets (and real buyers) get in after, at a worse price.
- The bot dumps its tokens into that demand for a fast profit.
What Flashbots does about it
Flashbots is a private lane into the blockchain. Instead of shouting your transactions to the whole network, you send them down a private line straight to the people who build blocks:- Your transactions never touch the public waiting room
- Bots can’t see them, so they can’t jump in front
- The world only finds out about your launch after it’s already done
Why a whole bundle, not just one private transaction?
Sending “turn on trading” privately protects that one step. But your wallet buys still have to happen. If those go through the public waiting room, bots see the token is now live and race your wallets to buy first. A bundle keeps the whole thing — turning on trading plus every buy — private and together, so your wallets are guaranteed to be first.What BundleZeus adds
- Sends to many builders — your bundle goes to the builders that make most Ethereum blocks, so it lands fast
- Automatic retries — if a block goes by without your bundle, BundleZeus tries again on the next ones, offering a little more each time
- Free test runs — the same setup lets you rehearse your launch against the live network for free
Learn more
Atomic bundles
Why all-or-nothing keeps your launch safe.
Your keys and wallets
How BundleZeus handles your wallets and keys.