🦈⛓ 1337 mev toolkit

the concept of maximal extractable value (mev) was coined by the 2019 research paper flashboys 2.0, and encompasses the profits generated by participant parties when producing new blocks on a blockchain.

healthy mev extraction is too important of a problem, that will directly affect the future of our society. we are democratizing it.

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🍕 notes && code in this repo

mev extraction strategies

• arbitrage
• nft arbitrage
• front-running
• back-running
• sandwiching
• liquidations
• flashloans

"retired" or learning mev bots

• cake sniper
• ape bot
• synthetix bot
• flashbot's simple arb
• searcher-sponsored-tx
• searcher-minter
• subway
• bundle generator
• optimal sandwich
• amm Arbitrageur
• mev bot in q using kdb+
• liquidation Aave protocol example
• liquidator-v3
• limit sniper
• pool-sniper
• globinmode longtail nft
• binance alpha bot
• hummingbot rading bots
• cow solver templante

mev on the chains

• MEV on ethereum
• MEV on avalanche
• MEV on solana
• MEV on cosmos

healthy mev extraction

• flashbots
• cow.fi
• rook.fi
• twamm designs
• 0x protocol and rfq

building a toolkit

• anatomy of mev bots
• nodes on ethereum

related defi stuff

• oracles and twap
• uniswap
• defi and day trading
• tokenomics

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🍟 resources && tools

mev explorers

• zero MEV
• public MEV explorer
• dashboard by metablock

tx analysis

ethereum mainnet

• ethvm
• ethtx transaction decoder
• txn finance
• ethereum token explorer
• anyblock explorer and txs
• blockscout block explorer
• blockchair blocks explorer
• oklink block and tokens explorer
• phalcon tx explorer
• breadcrumbs

goerli testnet

• etherscan goerli

gas trackers

• eth gas alert
• gas price io
• ethereum gas tracker
• nansei gas tracker
• gas fee prediction
• gastrology

data && analytics

• mev dashboard by flashbots.
• nansen
• token terminal
• westerngate, arbritage measured
• eigenPhi arbitrage scan
• parsec.finance
• flashloans
• sandwiched?
• etherscan data on flashbots
• MEV data corpus by manifold

awesome dune boards

• ethereum tx reverts
• dune board for gas prices
• sleuthing hashed function and event signatures

other supporting tools

• eth converter
• smart contract allowance checker
• tornado cash pool anonymity
• eth detective
• contracts diff checker
• ultrasound money dahsboard
• revoke.cash
• ankr rpc endpoints
• back run me

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🍿 general articles

• Endgame by Vitalik
• Escaping the Dark Forest by samczsun
• How to Build an Ethereum Mining Pool by Dragonfly research
• MEV and Me by Paradigm
• 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
• How To Light Up The Dark Forest by Robert Miller
• Hiding in Plain Sight by samczsun
• We Live In A Mempool: Backrunning the MEV Crisis by Tom Schmidt
• Wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit
• Surrogeth: Tricking frontrunners into being transaction relayers
• KeeperDAO plan for MEV protection
• The enemy of your enemy is not your friend
• How to use Flashbots
• Flashbots bundler explore
• Ethereum is a Dark Forest by Paradigm

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🍌 mev research

• MEV.day 2022
• MEV data corpus
• the Daily Ape on MEV
• cryptocurrency Historical Data Snapshot
• cross-domain mev
• MEV wiki

research papers

• Flash Boys 2.0, the original article
• Towards a Theory of Maximal Extractable Value I, Diamandis et al
• SoK: Transparent Dishonesty: Front-running Attacks on Blockchain
• KeeperDAO's whitepaper
• DEX Arbitrage, Mathematical Optimisations & Me
• A list of open problems in DeFi by Emperor
• Combining GHOST and Casper
• Three Attacks on Proof-of-Stake Ethereum
• Two Attacks On Proof-of-Stake GHOST/Ethereum

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🌭 bonus: 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕒 𝕔𝕪𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕦𝕟𝕜

• a graduate course in applied cryptography
• the cypherpunk manifest by eric hughes
• the hacker manifest by the mentor
• bitcoin Whitepaper by satoshi nakamoto
• teal organizations
• decentralization, by vitalik