Journal

Notes from the Trenches

Writeups on arbitrage strategies, MEV research, and DeFi engineering.

Anatomy of a Cross-Chain Arb: Arbitrum to Base

Breaking down a live cross-chain arbitrage opportunity, from detection to execution in under 2 seconds.

Cross-ChainCase Study

Flash Loan Routing: Beyond Single-Hop

How I built a multi-hop flash loan router that chains Aave, Uniswap V3, and Curve in a single transaction.

Flash LoansDeFi

MEV on L2s: The New Frontier

L2 sequencers changed the MEV game. Here is how I adapted my strategies for Optimism and Arbitrum.

MEVLayer 2

Building a Mempool Listener in Rust

Performance matters when milliseconds count. A walkthrough of my Rust-based mempool monitoring system.

RustInfrastructure

Liquidation Bots: Lessons from $2M in Executions

What I learned running liquidation bots across Aave, Compound, and Maker over 18 months.

LiquidationsLessons