# How bots snipe Clanker

Source: https://x.com/0xdoug/status/1861662510023123030?s=46
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/How-bots-snipe-Clanker?index=0x6746db7f469310e26c7c6bc9d1c9fd6b1a718038894548fd087b492f13b4b44ed1b86365
Submitted by macbudkowski.eth on 2024-11-27 UTC, 8 upvotes, 1 comment

1/ So, I think the surge in Base reverts is entirely driven by sniper bots. And the problem is being made much much worse by a peculiar approach Clanker takes towards seeding liquidity. 

A simple change in their deployment approach would fix the problem immediately.

## Comments

**macbudkowski.eth**: TIL that all Base txs are private until the block is produced