mev-toolkit/arbitrage

🥯 arbitrage

tl;dr

• arbitrage refers to the simultaneous buying and selling of tokens in different markets in order to take advantage of price discrepancies of that asset.

• the simplest MEV opportunity: two DEXes offering a token at two different prices, someone can buy the token on the lower-priced DEX and sell it on the higher priced DEX in a single atomic transaction.

interesting arbitrages in the wild

• arbitrageur begins with 1,000 Wrapped Ether (WETH), and ends up with 1,045

mev bots transactions

• https://etherscan.io/tx/0x46bf75f983f72ab1e7d391b9b618634d5452d2979bd13e95d7ed83c39b621cae
• https://etherscan.io/tx/0x6ab410a68c9dbc1f4bb9ecf4e63aebbcef1fd6e4f58b1961b5e58fc76093b91c
• https://etherscan.io/tx/0x76e5fb10ce1cf21846839a35eca09d8da5a53512292986e887a705bf4cdec349
• https://etherscan.io/tx/0x565d1b25538e7b8f385d4656e9f3d3e4570eade3af747e49d0464c08db68d1a7
• https://etherscan.io/tx/0xda8ee92d0796af8889f1fc1a71a7072dfeeb5694692f163b77b302bf34393ff8
• https://etherscan.io/tx/0x299c020e03d93caa937e43f21093a4f3e6457efdc27c174495fc2cc1f293e9b2
• https://etherscan.io/tx/0xc649f14593613f93a3ef5dbfba55d50e5b4888ae25e277bba99c6884ffdda86b