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cypherpunk-symposium/dark-forest-toolkit
👾 notes and resources on blockchain's maximal extractable value (MEV): on the hope of non-predatory free markets in the metaweb
A knowledge base / wiki for MEV (maximal extractable value) on EVM chains and beyond. Covers strategies (sandwiches, liquidations, atomic arbs, stat arbs), tooling pointers, and per-chain breakdowns across Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, and others. Aimed at developers who want to understand or build MEV bots, not at people deploying production searchers.
Breadth of coverage is genuinely useful — strategies, infrastructure (mempool monitoring, latency, indexing), chain-specific quirks, and canonical papers all in one place. The per-chain breakdown (Arbitrum sequencer fairness, Solana's different mempool model, Cosmos MEV) saves real research time. Includes actual Solidity (dydx flashloan) and geth/k8s deployment config, so it's not purely theoretical. The URL validation CI workflow means external links rot less than in most wiki repos.
Essentially no code — the 'build your searcher' sections are mostly README stubs pointing elsewhere, not working examples. Much of the content is already stale: the Ethereum PoW/PoS transition material is outdated, several linked projects (Eden, Manifold) are dead or pivoted, and the profit data stops at 2022. The repo is organized for browsing, not for building — someone who wants runnable arbitrage logic will leave empty-handed. No coverage of EIP-7702 or account abstraction MEV implications despite AA being live.