How searchers make money by backrunning adding liquidity events — Arbitrage MEV bots watch the swap transactions to see if there is any opportunities to backrun for the most part, but sometimes they make money by backrunning liquidity related transactions like `addLiquidity` from Uniswap V2 protocol. Code Here are the transactions. Trigger transaction Arbitrum Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | Arbiscan Arbitrum (ETH) detailed transaction info for txhash 0x795114e6f654bd61649c3aa83d698b7add2340a7940f466ed4ec1bfb873d9d95…arbiscan.io

With a real-world example — Summary Mev is a zero-sum or perhaps a negative-sum game People lose money on a single swap and let MEV searchers make money If individual users make a perfect swap, the net result will be greater than the current situation MEV is a zero-sum game You can tell who are the winners and losers on MEV…

I was just looking at these verified signatures on Etherscan the other day. My first thought was that why would anyone want to show off their signatures? One of the reasons could be that they want to prove that they are the owner of the wallet. Let’s take a look…

Example code for a liquidation strategy on Aave V2 Ethereum Mainnet using foundry — The tutorial repo is here. Foundry Foundry is a smart contract development tool like Hardhat, Truffle, etc. It’s known for fast compilation/testing time and probably because it’s written in Rust while Hardhat is in Typescript. …

You can borrow tokens with zero fee on Balancer V2! — Summary Flashloan fee on Balancer V2 is 0.0%. Easy to use Able to borrow a huge amount of tokens Many kinds of tokens Balancer V2 Flashloan Balancer V2 might be the best for many mev bot operators in every aspect. This is like a protocol both Aave and Dodo are combined to but only…

Let’s reproduce the attack on the Ethereum mainnet fork with hardhat! — Today I’m going to demonstrate how I reproduced the inverse finance attacker’s code (not the actual one) so you can understand the whole process better. You can execute almost the same transaction as the attacker did on Ethereum mainnet fork with hardhat. Motive I’m just curious about oracle attacks and wanted…

You can borrow millions of token with 0.05% fee on Aave V3 ! Summary Flashloan fee on Aave V3 is 0.05%. Easy to use You can borrow multiple tokens at the same time Able to borrow a huge amount of tokens Aave V3 Flashloan Anyone can borrow tokens with Aave V3 pool contract as…

Use as little SSD as possible to save money — Summary It takes at least 8 hours to set up a polygon node. Cost of running a node is $470/month. Use the pruned Bor snapshot to save money. As I talked about in the previous story, I have been running a polygon node for 2 months for arbitrage flashloan trades. It…

Thoughts on running a polygon node after 2 months — Summary Running your polygon node gives you much faster responses, no rate limits, and unlimited number of requests. Cost of running a node is $470/month. It’s possible to make profits without running a node. I’ve been doing some flashloan arbitrage trades for the last four months, the first 2 months using…