Inside the Black Forest

ebook The MEV Playbook

By C. E. Hirschauer

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🚨 The Book They Don't Want You to Read

MEV: Dark Forest Profits in Ethereum's Shadow Economy

Welcome to the other side of Ethereum — the invisible battlefield where bots wage war over blockspace, frontrunners scalp your trades, and the most ruthless players profit before a transaction is even confirmed.

This isn't another DeFi 101 book.
This is the black ops manual.

Inside This Book:

  • 🧠 Understand the Machine:
    Break down Ethereum's internals, from mempool mechanics to the miner-extractable vectors that define MEV itself.
  • 🚀 Build Real Systems:
    Go beyond theory. You'll architect flashloan-powered arbitrage agents, atomic bundles, sandwich bots, and bundle submitters from scratch — using production-grade Python, Solidity, and RPC-layer engineering.
  • 🧱 Zero-to-Execution Bundle:
    Learn how to scan real-time on-chain liquidity, calculate pathfinding opportunities across Uniswap, Curve, and Balancer, and deploy bundles via Flashbots or MEV-Boost.
  • 🥷 Outmaneuver the Bots:
    MEV isn't just for bots — it's about knowing what's extractable and flipping the map upside-down. Learn how the top bots actually think — and how you can stay ahead of them.
  • 💰 Real Tactics, Real Profit:
    Understand gas bribes, frontrunning protection, internal call trace monitoring, and timing games around block deadlines. This book assumes you're here to win.
  • Who This Book Is For:

  • 🧑‍💻 Solidity and Python developers who want to build exploit-aware, arbitrage-ready bots
  • 🧠 Quant traders who want to route profit through liquidity cracks, not order books
  • ⚙️ Infrastructure nerds, RPC tinkerers, and anyone building systems around mempool intelligence
  • 🏴 Crypto operators who understand code is the edge

  • If you're still asking, "What is MEV?" — this book will destroy and rebuild you.
    If you're asking, "How do I profit from it?" — this book is your blueprint.

    MEV isn't illegal. It's inevitable.
    But who extracts it — that's still up for grabs.

    Get in the dark forest, or get left behind.

    Inside the Black Forest