jaredfromsubway.eth

In February 2023, an unknown developer deployed an MEV bot on Ethereum under the ENS domain jaredfromsubway.eth — a dark-humor reference to Jared Fogle, the former Subway spokesperson serving 15+ years in federal prison. The bot runs sandwich attacks: it spots your pending swap in the mempool, front-runs you to push the price up, lets your trade execute at the worse price, then immediately sells behind you. You lose a few dollars and never notice. It does this thousands of times per day. When $PEPE launched in April 2023 and triggered Ethereum's biggest meme coin frenzy in years, the bot went into overdrive. On April 18-19 alone, it spent roughly 455 ETH on gas — about 7% of all gas on Ethereum during that period. It appeared in over 60% of every block. By early May, EigenPhi reported 238,000 attacks against more than 106,000 unique victims. Its strategy was so aggressive it bid 99.9% of MEV proceeds back to validators just to hold pole position, effectively pricing competing bots out of business. Today, Etherscan shows the wallet has spent over 83,500 ETH in total fees — roughly $197 million — making it one of the largest gas spenders in Ethereum history from a single address. In August 2024, the original contract went silent. A new, more sophisticated bot deployed from the same private key. Same operator, upgraded weapon — now running five-layer and seven-layer sandwich attacks that trap multiple victims inside a single transaction bundle. Profit estimates vary wildly. EigenPhi initially pegged proceeds at $34 million. A pseudonymous MEV expert named Yannick said real profits were closer to $4-6 million. By June 2024, on-chain analysts put total revenue at over $22 million with about 5,800 ETH in net profit. Three years in, the operator is still completely anonymous. No leaks, no interviews, no slip-ups. One of the largest gas spenders in Ethereum history is named after a convicted criminal and run by someone who has never been found.