Merso
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Track Record
- Bots and strategies built mostly in Rust, with a small team of 2-4 (rust, devops, quant) rotating around them
- Custom node infra across mainnet and EVM Layer 2s
- Some are deprecated and open sourced; others still run
Liquidations
- $7M+ of collateral liquidated — mostly on Aave and Compound, plus a handful of non-EVM protocols
- #1 liquidator on multiple chains for several quarters. One of the top liquidations made ~14 ETH of profit (link)
- Most of the work was : competitor auction/bid analysis, node and networking tweaks, optimal swap routing, smart-contract for flashloan, and recomputing health factors fast enough to bid before competition
Arbitrage
- Several million dollars of DEX volume on Uniswap V2/V3 and forks, mostly on exotic chains where competition was lower
- Statistical arb between Binance and Ethereum Mainnet, HyperEVM and other chains — never profitable, but generated decent volume
Hyperliquid
- L1 orderbook systematic trader (manual and bot), and stat arb between CEX and HyperEVM with volume farming on top
- $30K bounty from the Hyperliquid hackathon (HyperLP, delta-neutral LP via Corewriter), and smaller grants from Tycho, Hyperlend and Fastlane
Exotic strategies
- Acting as a keeper in protocols that require regular (incentivised) updates to their smart contract
- Protection of wallets with leaked private key, rescue of airdrops via backrun and top-of-block strategies
Side projects
- pm-xyz (source) : real-time Polymarket bet detector, classifies against commodity perps and surfaces lead/lag trading signals
- liq-moni (source) : multi-chain liquidation monitor for Aave V3 and Morpho across 10 chains
- hyper-lp (source) (ui) (tweet) : 6 weeks hackathon - delta-neutral AMM LP on HyperEVM + Hyperliquid via Corewriter - managed the Rust/Solidity + perp hedging parts
Portfolio
Overall portfolio: BTC, ETH, HYPE, USD