The HackerNoon Newsletter: Into the Dark Forest: Engineering Working DeFi Arbitrage (5/31/2025)

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 31, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Usain Bolt Became the Fastest Man Alive in 2008, Colin Farrell Was Born in 1976, Ginger Spice Left Spice Girls in 1998, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Answer to Win Your Share of $5000: What Makes a Blockchain API Fast and Reliable? to Into the Dark Forest: Engineering Working DeFi Arbitrage, let’s dive right in.

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Into the Dark Forest: Engineering Working DeFi Arbitrage

TL;DR How to build a working DeFi arbitrage bot exploiting price discrepancies across AMMs.

By @SiCo [ 45 Min read ]

Late one night, Dan Robinson, a researcher at the investment firm Paradigm, saw a distress call in the Uniswap Discord channel. Someone had accidentally sent tokens worth about $12,000 not to another user, but to the Uniswap contract itself, where they seemed irretrievably lost.

Key characteristics of AMMs:..

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Answer to Win Your Share of $5000: What Makes a Blockchain API Fast and Reliable?

TL;DR Use this template to explore what makes a blockchain API fast and reliable, for a chance to win from $5K in the Web3 Development Writing Contest.

By @hackernooncontests [ 2 Min read ]

For the chance to win from $5000 in the Web3 Development Writing Contest, welcomes submissions from developers, blockchain advocates, and writers who can explore key aspects of Web3 development—like how blockchain nodes work, the best ways to scale dApps, multi-chain interoperability, and more...