Flashbots Auction is awesome. It allows advanced Ethereum users to do things that were once practically impossible

Flashbots Auction is awesome. It allows advanced Ethereum users to do things that were once practically impossible (at least for those of us who don’t operate several large Ethereum mining pools). With all the attention around MEV extraction bots, I’d forgive you for thinking that’s the only thing it’s good for. But this week I used it to recover a bag of ENS tokens (worth around $13k USD at the time) from a hacked account and returned them to their rightful owner. Sound like fun? Here’s how I did it.