Is There a Huge Incentive for Trading Firms?

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The best searchers right now ard making so much money that they don't want to join trading firmsan the people who do probably aren't the best searchers. The interesting thing is that flash pots have started with this goal of illuminating the dark forest, and i think they've been pretty successful with that. But if you don't send something through flash pots, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. There 's actually an api that anyone can listen to that flash pots creates that will identify all the flash pots bundles for you to go and analyze.

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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