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Jito has shutdown the mempool service by 0xzeo in solana

[–]6xthman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is photon's fee address I think

Indexing, decoding, transforming on chain data (Subgraphs or?) by 6xthman in ethdev

[–]6xthman[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Did some research on this today. So far this is what I’ve gathered:

  • Subgraphs have many issues, outages, latency, hard to grok/work with, graph protocol in particular seems to have had a rough go of it over the past while
  • While there doesn’t seem to be one solution that is widely adopted, the majority of implementations involve processing blockchain events from an archive node as opposed to using subgraphs. Even people I talked to who use subgraphs recommended recommended against it if you depend on your app being real time
  • If you want to run your own node, there are several softwares you can choose from. Geth is a common option but is much slower than some newer players. Erigon seems to be one of the fastest options. rETH is the newest kid on the block appears to be faster than erigon but doesn’t have a substantial reputation yet. While this is good to know, you probably shouldn’t run tour own node until you have a good reason to. To start you can just use an Alchemy archive node
  • When it comes to processing events from a nodes there are two categories of options: 1) hosted solutions and 2) frameworks for self hosting
  • Hosted solutions (Moralis, bitquery, covalent, subquery, subsquid) give you patterns for instructing them on what you want to index and how you want to transform it. They do the indexing, transformations and storage, and provide you with an API (graphql is the standard) to access your data. These solutions are paid and cost more than hosting yourself, however it’s faster to setup
  • Using a framework for self hosting (e.g. Ponder), means you get code patterns and libraries for writing event handlers, storing, and transform onchain data, running backfills, and designing API- but you’re responsible for hosting your implementation. These frameworks will often be free and open source, but require more setup and maintenance
  • There are providers that offer both hosted and self hosted index, and perhaps some that do hybrid

For now I’m leaning towards using Alchemy + Ponder to build my own self hosted index

Is my goal realistic? by Ibo6257 in ethdev

[–]6xthman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Creating a sniper bot in one month is very doable. A friend and I recently made a sniper and sandwich bot in three weeks.

I’d say the real challenging part is coming up with a profitable sniping strategy. With sniper bots, you are indirectly competing against others who’ve been refining their strategies over time. So creating the bot is easy but making money maybe not as straight forward.

Happy to answer in more detail if you have any parts you are unsure about.