mev-toolkit/README.md

🧱⛓ Blockchains, DeFi, AMMs, and MEV

☠️ My notes and source code in this repo:

• MEV on Ethereum
• MEV on Avalanche
• MEV on Solana
• geth: notes and code
• The ROOK project
• The 0x Protocol
• The Uniswap project
• DeFi and day trading resources
• Tokenomics for DeFi projects

☠️ Articles I recommend:

• MEV wiki
• Etherscan data on flashbots
• MEV Dashboard by Flashbots.
• KeeperDAO plan for MEV protection
• A list of open problems in DeFi by Emperor
• Sandwiched?
• How to use Flashbots
• Flashbots bundle explore
• Flash Boys 2.0, the original article
• Ethereum is a Dark Forest by Paradigm
• Escaping the Dark Forest by samczsun
• How to Build an Ethereum Mining Pool by Dragonfly research
• MEV and Me by Paradigm
  • "if block rewards are small enough compared to MEV, it can be rational for miners to destabilize consensus."
  • "The rate at which MEV accumulates on a given blockchain is generally proportional to the complexity of its application-layer behavior."
• Return to the Dark Forest by rekt
• Modern MEV sandwich attacks on Ethereum routers by totlsota
• Dr. Reorg or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love MEV by Saneel Sreeni
• Hiding in Plain Sight by samczsun
• We Live In A Mempool: Backrunning the MEV Crisis by Tom Schmidt
• How To Light Up The Dark Forest by Robert Miller
• KeeperDAO's whitepaper
• Blockchains are Cities by Haseeb Qureshi
  • "Ethereum is NYC, Solana is LA"
• Endgame by Vitalik
  • "a chain where block production is still centralized, but block validation is trustless and highly decentralized"
• Soulbound by Vitalik
  • "Making more items in the crypto space soulbound can be one path toward where NFTs can represent much more of who you are and not just what you can afford."
• Towards a Theory of Maximal Extractable Value I, Diamandis et al

📊 Data and analytics

• Nansen
• Dune
• Token terminal
• Westerngate, arbritage measured
• EigenPhi arbitrage scan
• Parsec.finance

✨ More resources

• MEV.day 2022
• MEV data corpus
• The Daily Ape on MEV
• Zero MEV
• Optimal sandwich
• Subway
• AMM Arbitrageur
• MEV Bot in q using kdb+
• Liquidation Aave protocol example
• liquidator-v3
• Limit Sniper
• pool-sniper
• Binance Alpha Bot
• MEV Boost
• Public MEV explorer

📙 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕒 𝕔𝕪𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕦𝕟𝕜

• A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
• The Cypherpunk Manifest by Eric Hughes
• The Hacker Manifest by The Mentor
• How to be a Pirate by CGP Grey
• Bitcoin Whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto
  • "an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust..."
• Teal organizations
• The meaning of decentralization, by Vitalik

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• EthTx Transaction Decoder
• Eth converter
• JSON formatter
• Craft requests from curl commands
• Smart contract fuzzer
• Smart contract code analyzer
• Another smart contract code analyzer
• Verx, smart contract verifier
• Solhint, a linter for Solidity
• Solidity coverage tool
• Vscode plugin: Solidity visual
• Vscode plugin: Solidity support
• Immunefi scrapper
• Cryptocurrency Historical Data Snapshot
• Contracts diff checker
• Hummingbot ecosystem for crypto trading bots
• ETH detective
• CIA Officer's DeFi Roadmap
• Tornado Cash Pool Anonymity Auditor
• Smart Contract Allowance Checker