tl; drtoday 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 to proof-of-stake. the event was perhaps one of the most important checkpoints in the story of blockchain technology, but most of all, a nerd ecstatic moment 😎.🎶 today’s moodhttps://open.spotify.com/track/7ztFsRXXKrkUjMaLn1siHJ?si=266af943170642dbPART I: THE MOTIVATION🧱⛓ Consensus mechanismsConsensus mechanisms define how a peer-to-peer network d...

tl; drtoday 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 to proof-of-stake. the event was perhaps one of the most important checkpoints in the story of blockchain technology, but most of all, a nerd ecstatic moment 😎.🎶 today’s moodhttps://open.spotify.com/track/7ztFsRXXKrkUjMaLn1siHJ?si=266af943170642dbPART I: THE MOTIVATION🧱⛓ Consensus mechanismsConsensus mechanisms define how a peer-to-peer network d...

tl; drtoday i go over a PoC to send MEV bundles through flashbots.🎶 today’s moodhttps://open.spotify.com/track/6KwSdmAba8BxoxVXPw70LO?si=2aa567b38bc24b8bflashbots auctionA private communication channel (RPC endpoint) between miners and searchers for transparent and efficient MEV extraction through:mev-geth: a patch on top of go-ethereum clientmev-relay: a transaction bundle relayerWhy is this important? Okay, so in the regular Ethereum transaction pool:users broadcast transactions to the pub...

tl; drtoday i go over a PoC to send MEV bundles through flashbots.🎶 today’s moodhttps://open.spotify.com/track/6KwSdmAba8BxoxVXPw70LO?si=2aa567b38bc24b8bflashbots auctionA private communication channel (RPC endpoint) between miners and searchers for transparent and efficient MEV extraction through:mev-geth: a patch on top of go-ethereum clientmev-relay: a transaction bundle relayerWhy is this important? Okay, so in the regular Ethereum transaction pool:users broadcast transactions to the pub...

tl; drtoday i go over aurora on hardhat shenanigans and compound’s ctoken smart contract frolicsomeness.🎶 today’s moodhttps://open.spotify.com/track/4NlgvYgF7rny6rt17WCmGf?si=ac3dc59ff3ab4473The Compound Protocol is an Ethereum smart contract for supplying or borrowing assets. Accounts supply capital (ether or ERC-20 tokens) to receive cTokens or borrow assets from the protocol with other collateral assets. Each asset supported by the Compound Protocol is integrated through a cToken contract...

tl; drtoday i go over aurora on hardhat shenanigans and compound’s ctoken smart contract frolicsomeness.🎶 today’s moodhttps://open.spotify.com/track/4NlgvYgF7rny6rt17WCmGf?si=ac3dc59ff3ab4473The Compound Protocol is an Ethereum smart contract for supplying or borrowing assets. Accounts supply capital (ether or ERC-20 tokens) to receive cTokens or borrow assets from the protocol with other collateral assets. Each asset supported by the Compound Protocol is integrated through a cToken contract...

tl; drtoday i go over how to set a goerli validator with geth and prysm, both locally or using (docker) containerization. the code in this post is available here.🎶 today’s moodhttps://open.spotify.com/track/1sotD6Cn8aOtUsL0bd5HTJ?si=ec5ea69d52b84dbcwhy run a testnet node validatorall right, anon, if you are serious about being a blockchain leet h4xoor developoor buildoor, you gotta run your own node at some point in your life. this way, you will able to understand the many pieces of the ethe...

tl; drtoday i go over how to set a goerli validator with geth and prysm, both locally or using (docker) containerization. the code in this post is available here.🎶 today’s moodhttps://open.spotify.com/track/1sotD6Cn8aOtUsL0bd5HTJ?si=ec5ea69d52b84dbcwhy run a testnet node validatorall right, anon, if you are serious about being a blockchain leet h4xoor developoor buildoor, you gotta run your own node at some point in your life. this way, you will able to understand the many pieces of the ethe...

tl; drtoday i go over a vulnerability for $BAL that could result on DoS by emptying double entry-point ERC20 tokens through flashloans. This post is adapted from the bugfix review i wrote for immunefi.🎶 today’s moodhttps://open.spotify.com/track/2gRLsIZ7iYYbGVpIYK5idR?si=d8daed01ddd24d90Quick && dirty intro to AMMs and the Balancer protocolAutomated market makers (AMMs) are smart contracts that enable automated management of crowdsourced liquidity pools (LP), providing tradable tokens to dec...

tl; drtoday i go over a vulnerability for $BAL that could result on DoS by emptying double entry-point ERC20 tokens through flashloans. This post is adapted from the bugfix review i wrote for immunefi.🎶 today’s moodhttps://open.spotify.com/track/2gRLsIZ7iYYbGVpIYK5idR?si=d8daed01ddd24d90Quick && dirty intro to AMMs and the Balancer protocolAutomated market makers (AMMs) are smart contracts that enable automated management of crowdsourced liquidity pools (LP), providing tradable tokens to dec...

tl; drtoday i go over bdex, a tool i built that scrutinizes arbitrage cases on x*y=k AMMs on ethereum.🎶 today’s moodhttps://open.spotify.com/track/6BuGA3ontF6D4jluQ0DHZY?si=7e7a411cbdd241dcThe following are the resources we are fetching (but feel free to add your favorite token and pool):Token pairs:WETH/DAIExchanges:Uniswap (0xa478c2975ab1ea89e8196811f51a7b7ade33eb11)Sushiswap (0xc3d03e4f041fd4cd388c549ee2a29a9e5075882f)Shebaswap (0x8faf958e36c6970497386118030e6297fff8d275)Sakeswap (0x2ad95...

tl; drtoday i go over bdex, a tool i built that scrutinizes arbitrage cases on x*y=k AMMs on ethereum.🎶 today’s moodhttps://open.spotify.com/track/6BuGA3ontF6D4jluQ0DHZY?si=7e7a411cbdd241dcThe following are the resources we are fetching (but feel free to add your favorite token and pool):Token pairs:WETH/DAIExchanges:Uniswap (0xa478c2975ab1ea89e8196811f51a7b7ade33eb11)Sushiswap (0xc3d03e4f041fd4cd388c549ee2a29a9e5075882f)Shebaswap (0x8faf958e36c6970497386118030e6297fff8d275)Sakeswap (0x2ad95...