How Specialized Are Searchers?

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Searchers are competing not on having the best view of the mempul but instead on having the most gas efficient emmyte extraction. You need to get pretty in depth in each of these three big categories, liquidations, arbitrage or sandwiches, and understand them very well. One that increasingly we see is solidity has a bunch of guard rails on it; if you're writing in solidity, it then gets ld in lower level languages like assembly.

For our latest episode, I sat down with MEV Senpai, one of the top searchers in Ethereum. He gave us the unique inside perspective of someone who finds and captures MEV himself. The result was a long & intense convo, one of the best I've had in a while.

We discussed:

The structure and actors of the MEV game
What is searching, how can you learn it, what edges exist
Intro to private relays and transaction bundles
The role of Flashbots in DEX trading
and, of course, the hot topic of the day: short-term reorgs in Ethereum

Enjoy!

Listen to conversations between Su Zhu, the CEO and CIO of Three Arrows Capital, and Hasu, an experienced crypto researcher and writer. Together with occasional guests, we explore the transformative nature of trust-minimized currency and financial services.

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