Cryptic Woods 🌳
@crypticwoods_
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1/ 🥪🐸. Last week, we had the privilege of interviewing Jarry, a representative from the enigmatic team behind jared from subway
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1/ 🚀. The libMEV beta is now live! 🙏. A living dashboard with the most accurate, up to date MEV searcher data.
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1/. Univ3 liquidity providing isn’t without its perils. An insane $350k (155 ETH) arbitrage occurred on block 18971364, here's what happened 👇
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As a block builder, you need a few essential tools to remain competitive in this ever evolving ecosystem. In this blogpost we will outline how @bloXrouteLabs has helped us along this journey. Read on below to find out more.
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2/. Read on below as we tackle the ethics of sandwiching, the story behind the name, and why memecoins are the future.
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🔍 Curious about MEV (Miner Extractable Value)? 🔍. Dive into our latest blog post on where we unveil the secrets behind our cutting-edge data processing techniques! 💎💎.
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10,000+ blocks built for penguinbuild :-). Next stop: 100,000 blocks
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1/. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger - but only if it doesn't kill you 💀🤖
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9/. And that marks the end of our Univ3 liquidity provisioning story, hope you guys enjoyed it. As always these bundles can be found on We also post regular updates to our blog
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2/ 🌳. Welcome to the cryptic woods. We are a new organization dedicated to illuminating the Dark Forest that is MEV. We hope to give the community a better understanding of MEV and aid you making more informed decisions.
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libmev update:. You can now filter out the blocks built by builders and sort by block profit / eth tipped
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3/ 👀. Stay up to date with libMEV updates by joining the telegram.
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2/. We're bringing the chess-inspired ELO rating system to searcher rankings. Why?. 1️⃣ Short-Term Variance: No more skewed rankings due to market fluctuations!. 2️⃣ Timing? Luck? Not Anymore: Our algorithm levels the playing field, focusing on skill over fortunate timing.
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3/ . ELO rankings are a handy tool to monitor relative performance over time of opponents in zero sum games. 🏆. We've created ELO rankings for searchers which are a handy tool to compare and track the performance of different searchers. 🤖.
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We would like to thank the @paradigm team for their quality data extraction tools. Using Cryo, it allowed us to focus on data processing and not data extracting. cc: @notnotstorm @gakonst.
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2/. Liquidity provision on UniswapV3 is slightly different than UniswapV2. In V2, LPing will automatically add liquidity for price ranges 0 till infinity (left). While in V3, you can allocate liquidity into a specific price range (middle)
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ELO ranking is up! Compare your favorite searchers and see how they stack up against one another!
UPDATE: the searcher elo DASHBOARD from @crypticwoods_ ( = @libevm + @das_capytal + @0xMiniMoon) is live. can check elo of any searcher address. check it out
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3/. 🔍 Dive into a more nuanced, skill-reflective ranking system. It's not just about profits; it's about strategic prowess!. Read more about it here.
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4/. Do you have another MEV bot who you'd like to monitor or compare? 🔍. Then check out ELOs at
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4/. For brand new tokens, it's fine. However if there’s an existing liquidity pool out there, you best add liquidity correctly, otherwise. Immediately after liquidity was (incorrectly) added to the Univ3 pool, MEV Bot: 0x247 swooped in and arbed the two pools
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2/. Last year, the low carb crusader was able to steal ~$20M 💰 from multiple sandwich bots. This was reflected in searcher ELO rankings, as affected bots turned off - some never came back! 😲.
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8/. So, upon hearing the invalid liquidity provisioning, a bot immediately bought up all the XD tokens in the new Univ3 pool and sold them in the existing pool. Pocketing a nice 155 ETH after tips
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3/. When you LP into brand new pool, you’re essentially setting the price for the asset. In V2, its determined via the ratio of your assets, while in V3 its determined via the specified price range
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.@crypticwoods_ is opened to being acquired for $420 per token.
NEWS: OpenSea is open to being acquired.
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6/. Using a bit of math from the UniswapV3 whitepaper (and stackflow), we can calculate what was the effective price when liquidity was added:. 1 WETH = 337*10^38 XD. Basically, XD was worthless according to this pool
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