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Web3 Security Horror Story Time A protocol gets reported a Critical vulnerability. They immediately patch it with a code fix and push it on-chain to their upgradeable contracts. A MEV bot picks up the "code fix" transaction before it is validated into a block, re-engineers the vulnerability with AI and front-runs the upgrade patch with an exploit. Upgrade passes successfully, the exploit before it as well. You just exposed the fix of a Critical vulnerability to an untrusted actor. AI allowed seconds to be enough to deduct a vulnerability from a patch. You can argue AI is dumb, sure. But you can't argue AI is not fast - and that it can't be even faster. Upgradeability and MEV bots become an attack vector with time. I challenge you to say how this can be safely secured.