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Flashbots gets a minor mention in the article, but it doesn't do justice to how huge the Flashbots ecosystem has gotten:

https://docs.flashbots.net

To be fair, there isn't a ton of information widely available, because talking about Flashbots in public is considered "alpha leakage". You see glimpses on Twitter, Discord, Twitch, etc though. Every once in a while someone will dump their finder code to burn alpha when they get squeezed out of some opportunity set.

People have spent years fine tuning bots looking for MEV opportunities, and they have gotten really really good. It also plays a ton into cross-bridge arbitrage, taking advantage of quirks in the interchain ecosystem to squeeze out opportunities.

Like I said, the author has dipped their big toe into the MEV rabbit hole, but it goes so, so much deeper.



> Like I said, the author has dipped their big toe into the MEV rabbit hole, but it goes so, so much deeper.

So, both you and GP are saying that MEV is a bigger problem than this article says?




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