
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.
Our Blog
Best practices, and thoughts from our engineers at Merkle.

January 20, 2024
Ethereum, BSC and Polygon peer distribution
In the ever-evolving world of p2p networks, understanding the geographical distribution of peers is not just intriguing, it's essential for maintaining a robust and efficient system.

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 25, 2023
Improving reth with our free Ethereum rpc service
As a small team, we needed to find a way to run nodes that are cheap, fast and reliable.