Hi, this is my first comment here. I want to ask the question - Is it possible to build MEV bot in L2 OP-stack chains like BASE? From my quick research, it is impossible to MEV on L2 OP-stack, due to missing the mempool accessibility. But I wonder if we can work around, by listening Sequencer queue and mev upon arb opportunities?
Yes, the OP-stack chains offer plenty of opportunity. These chains have no public mempool (all transactions are ordered by the sequencer), so that prevents frontrunning. Backruns are fair game and there are many already doing this on BASE (including me).
BASE is better for backrunners than Arbitrum, since the sequencer orders incoming transactions based on fee instead of order received.
Hi, this is my first comment here. I want to ask the question - Is it possible to build MEV bot in L2 OP-stack chains like BASE? From my quick research, it is impossible to MEV on L2 OP-stack, due to missing the mempool accessibility. But I wonder if we can work around, by listening Sequencer queue and mev upon arb opportunities?
Yes, the OP-stack chains offer plenty of opportunity. These chains have no public mempool (all transactions are ordered by the sequencer), so that prevents frontrunning. Backruns are fair game and there are many already doing this on BASE (including me).
BASE is better for backrunners than Arbitrum, since the sequencer orders incoming transactions based on fee instead of order received.
Can you share about how we can do MEV on BASE?
Yes I'm about to start a series of posts about BASE reviewing the DEXes, how to extract data, how to format transactions etc.
Great! Can't wait to explore these posts. Appreciate your great job and contribution to community.