# Flashbots

https://docs.flashbots.net/flashbots-protect/rpc/quick-start/

# What's Flashbots Protection?

Flashbots Protect RPC allows regular users to easily submit their transactions to the Flashbots Auction by using a custom RPC endpoint in their wallet. Everything should be the same for users, except transactions are sent to Flashbots, and then directly to miners, instead of the public mempool.

# Benefits using the Flashbots RPC endpoint:

• Frontrunning protection: your transaction will not be seen by hungry sandwich bots in the public mempool.
• No failed transactions: your transaction will only be mined if it doesn't include any reverts, so you don't pay for failed transactions. Note: your transaction could be uncled, emitted to the mempool, and then included on-chain.
• Priority in blocks: transactions sent via Flashbots are mined at the top of blocks, giving them priority.

# Key considerations

Before you get started here are a few things to be mindful of:

• You can find the status of your transaction on Etherscan. Etherscan has a nice interface for viewing the status of your transaction from our status API.
• We will try to resubmit your transaction for 25 blocks after which point it is considered expired and will be dropped.
• Transactions under 42,000 gas, such as simple ether transfers, are rejected by the Flashbots relay. As a result, we will forward these to the public mempool instead.
• Transactions that perform simple actions - such as token approvals or transfers - will be sent to the public mempool as these do not need frontrunning protection.
• There is a risk that your transactions are included in uncled blocks and then emitted to the public mempool. Please read the uncle bandits article to learn more about uncle bandits and how to mitigate this risk.
• Your transactions can be emitted to the public mempool if you switch RPC endpoints from Flashbots Protect RPC to another RPC while your transactions are pending.

# Choosing the right gas price

In most cases sending a transaction through Flashbots Protect RPC should not require a higher gas price than normal. However, in periods of high load, you may want to increase gas prices to ensure your transaction is mined quickly. If the network is congested and you need your transaction quickly you could up your max fee to adjust for fluctations in base fee and set your priority fee to be 3 - 5 gwei.

Note also that the money saved from keeping reverts from landing on-chain means you will save money even if you occasionally need to pay higher fees during periods of congestion.

# How to use Flashbots Protect RPC in Bot

• Simply enable FLASHBOTS when creating tasks.