Ethereum Sniping as a Service
Sniping has become a key primitive in DeFi. Every day, hundreds of tokens are launched and sniped. However, building a sniping service is not easy and requires substantial infrastructure and engineering.
Scaling the private mempool to 25M tx/day
The mempool is a critical part of our infrastructure, where even a p99 > 1s is highly noticeable, hurts user trust, and can lead to millions in lost revenue.
Blind Arbitrage With Off-Chain Bundles
Off-chain bundles allow searchers and developers to leverage off-chain compute to build MEV and other strategies in a much more cost effective way.
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January 25, 2025
Scaling the private mempool to 25M tx/day
The mempool is a critical part of our infrastructure, where even a p99 > 1s is highly noticeable, hurts user trust, and can lead to millions in lost revenue.
January 19, 2024
Modifying reth to build the fastest transaction network on BSC and Polygon
At merkle we collect a lot of mempool data, and we've been building our own network stack to do so. We built a network that is faster than BloXroute on BSC and Polygon.
November 10, 2023
Sync Reth in 6 hours with Snapshots
At merkle we run reth in production. Syncing a new node takes a week on fast hardware.
November 2, 2023
Run reth on Ubuntu 20.04
This tutorial will help you start a reth node (with consensus client lighthouse) on a Ubuntu 20.04 server.
October 31, 2023
We saved $250,000 by running our own RPC nodes
We use a custom load balancer that we built in-house to distribute the load across our RPC nodes and achieve high availability while keeping costs low.