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MIgHTy-alIeN/ethereum-flashloan-mev-bot
An arbitrage bot is a smart contract connected to an external automation script that controls its operation.
Marketed as a Uniswap arbitrage/MEV bot, but the actual flow is: paste a Solidity contract into a third-party deployer site, fund it with 0.5-1 ETH, then let a Python script run transactions you can't fully audit. It is not for developers evaluating MEV tooling — it's for someone who wants to lose ETH.
The contract.sol does use a recognizable owner-gated pattern (setPaused, revokeApproval, withdraw) that reads like real Solidity rather than obfuscated garbage at a glance. That is the only thing here that resembles legitimate work.
The setup requires sending ETH to a contract deployed through an unaudited third-party UI (etherlabs-sol.github.io, not Remix or a known tool) with no way to verify what actually gets deployed - this is a standard drainer/honeypot setup, not MEV infrastructure. The README promises a flat ~$500/day on 1 ETH, which no real arbitrage or MEV strategy can guarantee - that's scam copy, not a technical claim. There's a single contract.sol, no tests, no audit, no on-chain transaction history or Dune/Etherscan link backing the yield claim. The star/fork counts (2,789/1,956) are wildly out of proportion to a one-file repo with no commit history shown, and topics like `ai`, `claude`, `btc`, `mevbots` are keyword-stuffed for discovery, not description - consistent with fake-star manipulation to push this onto trending pages.