Introduction

Read This If You’ve Ever Lost Something You Deserved to Win

You know that feeling. The countdown hits zero. You click buy in the first millisecond. Your heart pounds. You’ve saved for months. This is your moment.

And then… nothing.

The sword is gone. Sold to someone else. Someone who wasn’t first. Someone who cheated.

Jesse is a collector of rare digital artifacts. He’s spent months saving for Emberheart—a legendary glowing sword that belongs on his wall. When the sale goes live, he clicks faster than anyone. But when the transaction confirms, the sword isn’t his. It’s been taken by a bot called The Seeker—an invisible predator that watches every pending transaction, copies it, and jumps the line with a higher bribe.

Furious and confused, Jesse teams up with Nia, a sharp-tongued validator operator who runs computers that process transactions. She shows him the dark underworld of the mempool—a waiting room where your every move is visible to bots. She admits her own validator pool profits from the same system that robbed him. And together, they discover that the rules of the game aren’t broken. They were designed this way. For someone else’s benefit.

Now Jesse and Nia have a choice: give up collecting forever, or rewrite the rules.

They join a secret alliance of rebels called the Fair Sequencing DAO. They dive into cryptography, game theory, and high-stakes protocol wars. They build an encrypted mempool, a verifiable random ordering system, and a time-lock scheme that blinds the bots. But The Seeker adapts. QuickPath—a ruthless validator cartel—fights back with propaganda, economic attacks, and their own machine‑learning bots.

The Front-Running Fencer is a fast‑paced sci‑fi thriller about two teenagers who discover that fairness isn’t automatic. It has to be built—with code, with courage, and with the willingness to question the system.

If you’ve ever felt like the game was rigged… this story is for you.

No prior blockchain knowledge needed. Just a love for winning fairly.

Table of contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Mempool <<<<<< NEXT
Chapter 2: A Transaction in the Dark
Chapter 3: The Gas Auction
Chapter 4: The Sandwich Attack
Chapter 5: The Priority Fee War
Chapter 6: A Fair Ordering Protocol
Chapter 7: The Commit-Reveal Scheme
Chapter 8: The Encrypted Mempool
Chapter 9: The Time-Weighted Consensus
Chapter 10: A Just Sequence