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    💾 Lessons from libevm on long-tail MEV opportunities

🔗 Source: Libevm - How a below average programmer found his way into searching
TLDR:

pick you poison

short-tail: frequent, low margin, very competitive
long-tail: infrequent, higher margin, less competitive


every transaction that captures MEV is public on etherscan (you can see funky stuff with unrecognised function signatures)


work in teams of 2-3

Notes:


market is super inefficient for long-tail stuff. short-tail is super competitive.


long-tail is less competitive, opportunities are less frequent, but margins are there


2-3 is the optimal team size (to share the profits)


every transaction and opportunity is public


my favourite tool for this is etherscan. I usually do this programmatically but you can use etherscan to get your feet wet.
Notice that this has a function signature that is not recognisable, that's usually someone doing some funky stuff. Check out the transfer events.