tl; dr Flashbots is a research organization working on mitigating the negative externalities of MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) extraction techniques. They focus on enabling a permissionless and transparent ecosystem for MEV extraction, with the three verticals described below. In this post, I show you the minimum code you need to understand what t

tl; dr On May 14th, @kbesic reported a vulnerability classified as “Medium” in Balancer protocol. The vulnerability consisted of a potentially exploitable Denial of Service (DoS) scenario by emptying double entry-point ERC20 tokens through Balancer’s flashloans. Balancer paid the whitehat hacker $50k USDC for his find. While there were no user fund

tl; dr A few days ago, I was looking at a report claiming a possible vulnerability on Compound’s smart contract cTokens. However, the report was not on Ethereum, but on Aurora. “Huh, this is an interesting turn”, I thought to myself. https://open.spotify.com/track/4NlgvYgF7rny6rt17WCmGf?si=ac3dc59ff3ab4473 The Compound Protocol is an Ethereum smar

tl; dr happy sun crossing the deneb algedi constellation, anon. in this post, i go over a CLI tool and a set of trading bots that i’ve written to detect profitable cryptocurrency pairs to be shorted or longed on trading exchanges. these statistical algorithmic strategies are named cointegration, which has been around for a long time, for either tra

tl; dr the strategy in this post, i go over a hypothetically profitable strategy that runs an oracle manipulation attack on gmx. for my previous two bots, cointbot and cowsol, i provided a complete and original production-level strategy and source-code (i.e., i designed AND implemented the bots). for this one, i will only supply the idea. the statu