Questions tagged [flashbots]
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How fast are liquidation bots?
Wondering how liquidation bots work in general in terms of looking for possible liquidations.
Was trying to monitor some unhealthy addresses on Venus BSC with Comptroller.getAccountLiquidity() ...
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Why miners are not picking my arbitrage trading bot transaction on ethereum.?
Miners not picking my arbitrage trading bot transaction that is sent to miners directly using relay.flashbot.net rpc. And we are also giving reward through block.coinbase.transfer() function and also ...
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High Gas Flashbots Transaction
I'm trying to better understand flashbots impact on frontrunning. Can anyone help me understand why this sandwich attack tx from a Flashbots bundle would pay such a high gas price? Here is a similar ...
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Flash Loan Transaction Pattern
I am trying to understand Flash loan and identify the patterns for those transactions. In my research, I found out that Uniswap Flash loan transactions can be identified from mainly three criteria.
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Does block.coinbase.transfer() work for MEV on Avalanche?
I would like to perform MEV transactions on Avalanche, but I am only familiar with using Flashbots for Ethereum mainnet. According to the Flashbots docs only miners running "MEV-Geth" will ...
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How to create and send Flashbot bsc?
I'm trying to redeem some ERC tokens lost in a metamask, I found this code from Flashbots https://github.com/flashbots/searcher-sponsored-tx
turns out that my tokens are on the bsc network, I made ...
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My ETH gets sweeped in milliseconds by a bot, what are the mechanics behind this?
Long story short, i had my ethereum private key pushed on github by accident during development.
The funds by themselves are no realy my main concern. However, i noticed that whenever i attempt to ...
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Connect to Flashbot's JsonRPC Nethereum
I'm trying to connect to Flashbot's JsonRPC using c# and I can only manage to do that on TypeScript:
const CHAIN_ID = 5;
const provider = new providers.InfuraProvider(CHAIN_ID)
const ...
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Running a flashloan arbitrage contract on Quickswap but I keep getting a 'VirtualMachineError: revert' error with no other details
I assume that this means the transaction works but the profit margin isn't high enough to pay back the loan. But unlike the Uniswap errors that have an output like "INSUFFICIENT LIQUIDITY" ...
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Flashbot Error in the simulation
I am recovering a transaccion from Mempool and sending through flashbot.
The flashbot always respods m Simulation Error:
err: nonce too high: address 0xE450CA3671395BBFE57273cFcA0c106A77D2224D, tx: ...
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Arbitrage bot - What's the fastest way to interact with a deployed contract? JS vs Solidity
I'm investigating about arbitrage bots operating in various dexs. I've noticed most of them use a deployed contract to call the dex contract and make the swap.
I'm supposing they're using a setup like:...
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How to Tranfer Remaining NFTs And/Or Tokens Out of A Hacked Ethereum Wallet
I have a friend who got hacked recently. The hacker drained all of the valuable NFTs and ERC-20s out of the wallet. The hacker did leave some NFTs of lower value in the wallet. The victim of the hack ...
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Solidity re-entrancy attacks and how to guard against them
I'm trying to understand re-entrancy attacks. Is tip1() below at risk of a re-entrancy attack (if the fallback function of the miner's contract invokes tip1() itself)? And if so, is tip2() safe?
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Will this DeFi bot work as is, given that there're front runing bots out there?
Will this bot https://extropy-io.medium.com/coding-a-defi-arbitrage-bot-45e550d85089
work as is, given that there’re front-run bots out there?
Or will it necessitate some tweaks first to counter them?
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Best Way to Estimate Gas, Flashbots [duplicate]
I am writing an arbitrage bot that leverages the Flashbots bundle. For those who don't know, if you submit transaction through flashbots if the transaction revert, then you don't pay any gas.
My ...
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Where do bot front bot runners get initial liquidity?
In order to pull off front running attacks or arbitrage, a person who runs a bot has to have enough liquidity, doesn't he? For instance, to beat a transaction of 100 ETH he'll have to do this amount ...
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Minting an NFT at a much lower gwei than standard
So I was exploring a recent NFT project that dropped the other night and found that a handfull of wallets succeeded in minting around 10% of the supply on a much lower gwei (1/7) than the standard ...
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Way to tackle arbitrage bots
I deployed a token ABC and created a liquidity pool in pancakeswap with pair ABC/BNB. But arbitraged bots attacked and stole a large sum of money. How to stop this and why is this occurring?
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MEV explore flashbots
What's the exact definition of Outlier MEV txs currently in review on Flashbot's MEV-explore dashboard?
Does it mean that the transactions there are currently under review and the profit (MEV Tx ...
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How do frontrunners / sandwich bots work? How do they affect the price in the pool?
I'm trying to understand how frontrunners work in ERC20-Uniswap.
Currently, I don't understand how they can "drain" ETH from a transaction. My understanding is that the price of the pool ...
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Flashbot bundle question
I would like to create a smart contract and place it in a bundle. In the same bundle, I would like to call it and execute it , paying the miner from the second transaction. Is there a simple answer ...
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How to conduct a flash loan on PancakeSwap?
Apparently it's possible to take a flash loan on PancakeSwap, being that it's a fork of Uniswap. However, I haven't found any examples anywhere of a flash loan on PancakeSwap, nor do the docs mention ...
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How do sophisticated generalized frontrunner bots work?
By sophisticated generalized frontrunner bots, I mean the bots that execute a pending mempool transaction and copy profitable internal transactions generated by its execution trace, as mentioned in ...
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What prevents miners from cooperating and causing intentional chain reorgs?
The top 5 ethereum mining pools currently have more than 60% of the network's hashrate. What prevents these pools from cooperating to cause planned reorgs?
There could be many reasons to do it, like ...
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What decides the order of transactions in a block?
Transaction order in a block matters, since that's the order those transactions are executed and take effect on the state of the EVM. But what or who decides the order of transactions? Is it hard-...
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How do flash loans work?
I am quite new to flash loans and I do not fully understand it. I have been reading on flash loan attacks lately and notice oftentimes it involves a huge dump on Uniswap to skew the price of a coin. I ...
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How my tx become a flashbots / private transaction?
I did swap on Uniswap today, and realized that my tx is frontrunned and it become a flashbots / private transaction.
Here is the tx https://etherscan.io/tx/...
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Would it be possible to integrate crypto with trading bot? [closed]
You can create a trading bot in trading view and see how well your crypto would perform in a given time frame. (I can see how much money would I make if I didn't sell or how much money I would make if ...
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Gas Error on Uniswap Bot
I'm new to all this and I'm trying to code a bot.
The bot is picking up new listings on uniswap but when it goes to put through a transaction I'm getting a gas error.
I'm getting..
(node:7820) ...
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How to create and send Flashbot transactions?
So far, I only understand flashbot bundles are signed raw transactions with one of them being a bribe to the miner for the mining fee, but :
Is the bribing transaction special in the way it is valid ...
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Can a flash loan used to flash attack a smart contract?
I am new to flash loans. Let us say I have smart contract where people vote. Your voting power on this contract is based on how many token x you have. The votes are yes and no and the vote with more ...
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What decides about the position in the block? [duplicate]
All these transactions happened within the single block:
Source: https://etherscan.io/defi?q=0x8a40c222996f9f3431f63bf80244c36822060f12#dextracker
Right now it is still possible to get to the initial ...
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How are 0 gas price transactions getting mined?
Here's a transaction with a gas price of 0:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xbdda3e1d4d879590b5d21ce777a91573fb5bbb40fa0f6cbcc8420a6d3d208668
How is it getting mined? Is the miner mining it for free?
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