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Head First DeFi: TX & Strategies
  • Decoding the DNA of DeFi Transactions & Strategies
    • From Arbitrage, Sandwich to JIT and Oracle Manipulation
    • Be Prepared To Explore the DeFi World
    • Case Study Format
  • MEV Transaction & Strategy 101
    • A $3.2 Million Profit Arbitrage, the Most Lucrative MEV of 2022
    • Understand Back-Run Arbitrages and Their Signals and Join the MEV Game.
    • Wallchain's MEV Arbitrage Redistribution
    • MEV Blocker, the multi-transaction MEV redistribution system that refunds 90% of builder rewards
    • With NFT arbitrage, someone was snipping your Baby Doge.
    • The Hidden Tax That You Should Know About
    • MEV-Share, Flashbots' MEV Redistribution Solution
  • Don't Let Your Trading Become the Recipe of Someone's Sandwich
    • The Notorious Jaredfromsubway.eth's Sandwich Attack
    • Combined with Flash Loan, This Leveraged Sandwich Launched the Attack with Millions of Volumes
    • Sandwich Targeting Liquidity Providers
    • The Flash-Loan-Enabled Sandwich Attack against Ethereum Foundation
  • Under the Hood of the DeFi Lego
    • What's Really Going on When Processing Liquidity in a Uniswap Pool?
      • Pretend You Are One of the Shareholders of a Bank Branch.
      • Let's Match the Bank Branch to a Uniswap Pool.
      • Adding Liquidity.
      • Removing Liquidity.
      • Conclusion
    • Liquidation: A Good Entry Point to Comprehend Internal Accounting Used by Many DeFi Protocols.
    • A Cross-Chain Arbitrage: The Art of Arbitraging BANANA Cross BSC and Polygon Chains
    • Liquidity Rebalancing: Moving Around $9.4 Million for More Fee Revenues.
    • Rebalancing loan positions utilizing AAVE Flash loan
    • How Does the Grok Token Exploiter Exploit the X Token By Baking His Own Cake And Eating it?
  • Unlocking the Power of Advanced DeFi Transactions and Becoming a DeFi Sleuth
    • Just-in-Time, an MEV Type That Benefits Traders in the Same Trading Venue
    • A Bot Devised Arbitrage Strategies Centered on Autonomous Minting and Burning of Synthetic Tokens
    • The Defect in a Lending Protocol's Oracle Module Was Exploited by a Bot to Generate a $110K Profit
    • A $296K-Profit Arbitrage Done by the Lightning Reflex Bot After the Vyper-Curve Exploit
    • Coffeebabe.eth Utilized Curve's CRV/WETH Pool's Price Deviation for a $5.4 Million Profit Arbitrage.
    • An Attacker Baited MEV Arbitrage Bots and Emptied Their Wallets
    • How Enso Solves 73.5ETH in 116 Steps in One Transaction
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Under the Hood of the DeFi Lego

DeFi is likened to a set of Lego blocks due to its flexible composability. This essentially means that DeFi protocols can be easily and flexibly combined, customized, and built upon - much like you would assemble pieces of Lego. While this represents a breakthrough in financial innovation and opens up an enormous range of possibilities, it also makes it difficult to understand and predict the behaviors and affiliations in trading within the DeFi ecosystem.

Given the complexity and inherent variability of DeFi trades, the task of understanding and learning from these transactions can be daunting. That's where our dissection of the trading strategies comes into play. We delve into the mechanisms behind the individual trades and reveal what drives them. By shining a light on the tactics that lurk under the surface, we can provide valuable insight into how these transactions function and interact within the broader DeFi marketplace.

You can glean significant knowledge from studying the initiators or pioneers of these trade tactics. These individuals or entities are leading the way in innovative trading, and their strategies can be a crucial part of understanding the DeFi space. Through careful analysis of the following cases, you can not only learn much from the strategies they've deployed but also understand how these tactics may evolve in the future and influence the DeFi landscape on a broader scale. This deep understanding could prove invaluable whether you're a seasoned trader or a newcomer to the DeFi space.

  • What's really going on when processing liquidity in a Uniswap Pool?

  • Liquidation: a good entry point to comprehend internal accounting used by many DeFi protocols.

  • A cross-chain arbitrage: the art of arbitraging BANANA cross BSC and Polygon chains.

  • Liquidity rebalancing: moving around $9.4 million for more fee revenues.

  • Rebalancing loan positions utilizing AAVE Flash loan

  • How does the Grok Token Exploiter exploit the X token by baking his own cake and eating it?

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