Using Flash Lons as a Search Engine?

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Using flash loanes is very gas inefficient. A person that has capital is always going to be able to compete somebody that doesn't ind these amons. One edge some searchers have is keeping one token on way of every single thing they trade on, or sandwich. It costs some gas toinitial the storage associated with an address of a token. If you are trading on something for the first time, it costs a little bit more gas than if you have that token in your wallet already.

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

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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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