go outside labs
go outside labs
blockchains →∞ infra, quant, mev, security
[ state-of-the-art research + open-source-production code ]
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SEASON 1️⃣ FINALE: living as a stoic cypherpunk witch
March 22nd, 2023
today i go over my personal strategies for the self-actualized life i created as an engineer, scientist, and magickian while living in the future.
QUANT #3: building a scalable event scanner for ethereum
March 6th, 2023
today i go over my mvp for a scalable event scanner for ethereum, through indexing and parsing block events. this is step 0 for building distributed systems that allow training machine learning models on the chains (e.g., high-frequency trading with deep learning) and other shenanigans.
SECURITY #3: manipoolator, a gmx oracle player
February 13th, 2023
today i go over a hypothetically profitable strategy that runs an oracle manipulation attack on gmx.
QUANT #2: cointbot, a cointegration trader
January 5th, 2023
today i go over a cli tool and a set of trading bots that i’ve written to detect profitable cryptocurrency pairs to be shorted or longed on trading exchanges.
MEV #3: cowsol, an arb solver for cow protocol
November 13th, 2022
today i go over one of my mev bots. this one is called cowsol and it runs arbitrage strategies for cow protocol.
MEV #2: mev-boost, relays, self-sovereignty
October 19th, 2022
today i go over some ethereum post-merge architectural changes, how to integrate mev-boost to our validator’s block production, and the details on the pbs/mev-boost/relays discussions.
INFRA #2: run your own goerli validatooor
October 14th, 2022
today i go over an in-depth review on how to set a goerli validator with geth and prysm, both locally or using (docker) containerization. all the code in this post is available here.
INFRA #1: experiencing the merge
September 26th, 2022
today i go over the ethereum merge, taking place at block 15,537,393, with the main purpose of transiting the blockchain from proof-of-work (pow, the original block production consensus mechanism) to proof-of-stake (pos).
SECURITY #2: ctokens, aurora, hardhat forks
September 20th, 2022
today i go over aurora on hardhat shenanigans and compound’s ctoken smart contract frolicsomeness.