EatTheBlocks – Profitable Flashloans
What will you learn in Profitable Flashloans?
Introduction
Welcome (1:11)
The LION Method: Plan, Observe, Attack (2:10)
Development tools (2:23)
PLAN: Establish an arbitrage strategy
Introduction (2:11)
Pick an arbitrage strategy (3:39)
Pick an asset (2:24)
Pick an exchange (1:06)
OBSERVE: Monitor the Blockchain for arbitrage opportunities
Introduction (1:40)
Setup the project (2:53)
Connect to the Blockchain with Web3 and Infura (4:09)
Secrets Management (private key & infura URL) (3:30)
Listen to new blocks with Websockets (2:10)
Poll Kyber prices (8:45)
Normalize Kyber prices (2:46)
Poll Uniswap prices (5:02)
Normalize Uniswap prices (3:12)
Evaluate the arbitrage opportunity (7:14)
ATTACK: Pounce on an arbitrage opportunity as soon as you see it
Introduction (1:50)
Pick a Flashloan provider
Setup the Truffle project (2:31)
Setup the sending address (2:24)
Create the Flashloan smart contract (8:06)
Add exchange & token addresses (7:54)
Arbitrage 1: Buy on Kyber, sell on Uniswap (8:17)
Arbitrage 2: Buy on Uniswap, sell on Kyber (2:55)
Withdraw profits (3:02)
Send transaction to initiate Flashloan (11:18)
Deploy Flashloan smart contract (7:08)
Corrections (6:51)
Make the arbitrage script run 24/7 on a server (8:19)
About Instructor
Hi! My name is Julien and I am the instructor of EatTheBlocks Pro.
I am a senior Blockchain software engineer. I used to work in Finance, and I switched to software development 6 years ago.
For the past 3 years, I have been building Dapps and Solidity smart contracts for several Ethereum and ICOs projects, including Lendingblock, an institutional crypto lending exchange.
I run EatTheBlocks, a youtube channel for Ethereum developers. I have also published a Blockchain course for Manning.
I also contribute to the code of Drizzle and I spoke at TruffleCon 2019 on Drizzle.
I also have extensive experience with Nodejs, Javascript & React, having worked as a full-stack software engineer for the last 6 years.
