Validation & Limitations

What protected routing can do, and where its guarantees stop.

What protected routing can do

Reduce visibility of a pending swap to public-mempool observers before inclusion, lowering the window for sandwich-style front-running on that trade.

What it cannot guarantee

• Not all MEV is mempool-based. Some extraction happens through other means outside what protected routing addresses — a protected swap reduces one attack surface, not every form of MEV.
• Relay dependency. Protection quality depends on the private relay/infrastructure Cloak uses. If that path degrades or is unavailable, Cloak falls back to standard routing (and does not charge the protection fee for that swap — see Fee Policy).
• No guaranteed price outcome. Market conditions can still move between quote and execution for reasons unrelated to MEV (normal slippage, low liquidity, volatility).

Contract status

Not financial advice

Cloak does not custody assets and does not provide investment or financial advice. Token prices can be volatile.