> learn from
@Cbb0fe
> start with ~$40–50k
> 2020 bear hangover, a few binance launchpad wins, portfolio ~$50k
> hear friends 3–4x on uniswap in hours
> discover sniping after bZx bot prints ~$500k
> late aug 2020 first snipes while on holiday
>
$YMPL: 50 ETH in, 60 ETH profit in ~30 min
>
$VIDYA: 165 ETH in, 159 ETH profit in 15 min
> next snipe: 460 ETH in, 353 ETH profit
> realize speed and process matter more than vibes
> understand the mechanism
> watch mempool for pending add-liquidity
> send buy tx with same gas to land in same block right after LP
> being one block late is death
> mid-sep 2020 upgrade the stack
> run own eth nodes
> confirm fastest region is aws us-east-1 (north virginia)
> reason: infura routing and infra gravity there
> voice comms ritual “ça part” before each snipe
>
$CHADS: 200 ETH in, 675 ETH profit
>
$FRONTIER,
$LINA,
$CHARTEX add up to ~2300 ETH in 6 days
> uniswap airdrop hits many test wallets for mid-6 figs
> smart contract and infra improvements
> switch to per-ETH min-out instead of global limit
> build router to buy regardless of pair (eth, usdt, usdc)
> deploy nodes in multiple regions and compete them
> formalize the pipeline: find coin, find dex, find pair, find lister wallet, deploy snipe SC, jeet in <30 min
> polkastarter enters
> december 2020 spiderdao ui limit is bypassable
> buy via contract, take ~50% of sale, snipe listing, $500k
> more defI arbs add $600k
> brother resigns professor job, both move to dubai jan 2021
> january prints ~$3m while eth runs from $200 to $1400
> anti-snipe era begins
> buy limits per tx and per wallet appear
> respond with loop buys in one tx
> spawn “slave” contracts to parallelize across wallets
> innovation edge beats most competitors
> polkastarter prime and rising competition
> invent “suicide snipe”
> send one no-limit buy, auto-sell 4 blocks later to catch late snipers
> not life-changing but steady 50–150 ETH clips
> one rival 0x887 is simply faster on eth
> rotate to bsc where competition is lower
> buy bnb at ~$80 for ammo
>
$BRY: 800 bnb in 30 min
>
$MATTER: 75 bnb in, 2100 bnb out
> march 2021: 15k bnb,
$KPAD single best win, ~$2m in 1 hour
> multi-chain launch
$COOK focus on heco for edge, bridge to bsc, 3000 bnb
> bsc infra learnings
> intra-block ordering feels random
> shotgun strategy wins
> spin up 150–200 aws nodes, each fire 10 txs
> best regions: north virginia, frankfurt, sometimes tokyo
> monthly aws burn ~$40–60k to sustain edge
> memecoin season on bsc
> 6 snipes a day sometimes
> buy-limit launchpads pop up
> they list and buy in same tx with custom SC
> multiple 7-fig days in one week
> end may 2021 jeet most bnb around ~$450, slow down in june
> august 2021 blacklisted
$EVN wallets mysteriously sellable
> dribble sells, realize millions unlock
> ~$6m exit in an afternoon
> sell a big eth stack above $3k to lock freedom
> totals
>
> > 200 sniped coins across >10 chains
> > from novices in solidity to purpose-built infra and SCs
> > one insane year, then cool off