🔗 Source: Libevm - How a below average programmer found his way into searching
TLDR:
- pick you poison
- short-tail: frequent, low margin, very competitive
- long-tail: infrequent, higher margin, less competitive
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- every transaction that captures MEV is public on etherscan (you can see funky stuff with unrecognised function signatures)
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- work in teams of 2-3
Notes:
market is super inefficient for long-tail stuff. short-tail is super competitive.
long-tail is less competitive, opportunities are less frequent, but margins are there
2-3 is the optimal team size (to share the profits)
every transaction and opportunity is public
my favourite tool for this is etherscan. I usually do this programmatically but you can use etherscan to get your feet wet. Notice that this has a function signature that is not recognisable, that's usually someone doing some funky stuff. Check out the transfer events.
