An “unlucky” Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) bot took out a staggering $12 million flash loan but ended up only making $20 from its exploits, just enough to buy an actual sandwich. In a Sept. 5 post to X, blockchain analytics platform Arkham Intelligence shared that the MEV bot took out a $11.97 million loan in Wrapped Ether (WETH) to “sandwich” a user trying to swap around $5,000 worth of Shuffle (SHFL) tokens. According to Arkham data, the MEV bot undertook a total of 14 transactions across the duration of its sandwich attack, lending, borrowing, and returning around $700,000 in USDC (USDC) …