Table of Contents
- DeFi Is Broken. MAIN Fixes It.
- The Harsh Truth: DeFi Works Better for Bots Than People
- MEV: When Bots Harvest What Users Sow
- The Bot Economy: $2B+ and Counting
- Why Bots Win: DeFi Wasn’t Built for People
- Infrastructure That Supercharges Bots
- MAIN Flips the Script
- What MAIN Actually Does
- The Future: User-Aligned, Not Bot-Optimized
- Join the Movement
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DeFi Is Broken. MAIN Fixes It.
TL;DR: DeFi promised fairness, but bots took over. They extract value from human users with MEV, frontrunning, automated arbitrage—making billions while retail gets left behind with high slippage and failed trades. MAIN flips the script by putting AI on your side. We call it DEXAI—an intelligence layer built to help people trade smarter, safer, on equal footing.
New here? Start with the backstory:
The Harsh Truth: DeFi Works Better for Bots Than People
DeFi started with a noble promise: to give everyone open access to financial tools without middlemen. It aimed to level the playing field. But the tools themselves evolved in a way that favored speed, scale, scripts—not people.
Today, automated bots dominate the space. They frontrun trades, arbitrage every mispricing, use superior speed to extract value from real users. If you’ve ever been front-run, slipped, or failed to execute a swap—chances are, you’ve been outplayed by code.
DeFi was built for transparency. But it rewards the fastest script, not the smartest person.
Let’s break down what’s really happening.
MEV: When Bots Harvest What Users Sow
Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) is profit made by reordering or inserting transactions in a block—typically by bots, miners, or validators. These “searchers” scan the public mempool for exploitable trades using tactics like arbitrage, liquidation frontrunning, and sandwich attacks.
In a sandwich attack, for example, a bot sees your trade, jumps ahead to move the price, lets your trade execute at a worse rate, then exits with a profit. The trade goes through—but you lose. One bot, jaredfromsubway.eth, reportedly made tens of millions this way.
MEV is a hidden tax on DeFi. And it’s getting worse.
These attacks don’t create value. They extract it from you.
The Bot Economy: $2B+ and Counting
What started as a niche tactic has become a shadow industry. MEV extraction surged from $100M in 2020 to over $1.4B by 2023. Projections for 2024 suggest more than $2B will be siphoned from users.
Bots dominate the gas charts. A single arbitrage bot once netted $25M in one block. Another earned $1.2M in a single day. In early 2025, over 33,000 users were hit by sandwich attacks, often without even realizing it.
And that’s just Ethereum. The same playbook spreads across L2s and altchains.
If DeFi volume is $1.5T a year, even a 1% leak is $15B gone to bots.
This isn’t a small issue. It’s systemic. And it costs users billions.
Why Bots Win: DeFi Wasn’t Built for People
DeFi’s architecture unintentionally favors bots. Open mempools expose pending transactions. AMMs depend on arbitrage to function. Gas auctions reward whoever pays the most. It’s a technical arms race where humans stand no chance.
Platforms like Uniswap give bots every edge: visibility, predictability, speed. You can’t win if the opponent sees your move before you make it.
You’re not slow. The game is rigged.
MAIN changes that by turning the intelligence inward. Instead of fighting bots manually, it adapts in real time, using AI.
Infrastructure That Supercharges Bots
Some of DeFi’s most advanced tools have accidentally deepened the bot problem. Flashbots, which aimed to organize block ordering, now powers over 90% of Ethereum blocks. While it reduced network spam, it institutionalized MEV extraction.
Other innovations like EigenLayer’s restaking risk concentrating power among validators who control large swathes of the network. These validators can gain exclusive access to transaction flows, enabling cross-domain MEV, a new layer of unfair advantage.
Even L2 scaling didn’t fix it.
Bots simply moved faster, consuming new bandwidth and repeating old patterns..
MAIN Flips the Script
MAIN is an AI-governed DEX. But more importantly, it’s a shift in perspective. Instead of letting bots and validators run the show, it empowers the user with a responsive, adaptive system.
DEXAI is a new layer for DeFi—an intelligence layer designed to:
- Predict attacks before they happen
- Adapt strategy in real time
- Defend against extraction
- Optimize for users, not bots
It doesn’t just monitor volatility. It acts on it. MAIN rebalances liquidity, adjusts fees, even defends against attacks in real time. It’s like having a full-time team managing your DeFi exposure, except it runs autonomously.
MAIN is the first DEX where AI runs with you, not against you.
What MAIN Actually Does
- Real-time liquidity management: MAIN optimizes your positions as the market moves.
- Intelligent fee adjustment: MAIN calibrates fees based on volatility and volume.
- Defense systems: MAIN watches the mempool and auto-reacts to MEV attempts.
- Different strategies: MAIN builds liquidity strategy with your risk profile in mind.
You define your goals. MAIN handles the rest.
Just smarter execution. Finally.
The Future: User-Aligned, Not Bot-Optimized
New DeFi must give us protection.
MAIN isn’t a bot killer. It’s a user amplifier. It doesn’t promise magic, it promises intelligence. And in markets dominated by automation, intelligence is your best defense.
DEXAI is how we take the power back.
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