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Does Slippage Tolerance Prevent Front-Running or Just Mitigate Its Financial Impact?

It mitigates the financial impact. A low tolerance causes the victim's transaction to revert if the front-runner's price manipulation is too severe, preventing the front-runner's profit rather than stopping the initial attack attempt.
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Does Slippage Tolerance Prevent Front-Running or Just Mitigate Its Financial Impact?

Slippage tolerance does not prevent a front-runner from attempting an attack. Instead, it serves as a protective mechanism that mitigates the financial impact on the user.

By setting a low tolerance, the user ensures that if a front-runner successfully manipulates the price, the user's transaction will revert, preventing the front-runner from profiting from the second leg of the attack and limiting the user's loss to only the gas fee.

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