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Merso

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Track Record

    - Bots/strategies built in Rust

    - Custom node infra across mainnet and EVM Layer 2s

    - Small team of 2-4 (rust, devops, quant) depending on the strategies

    - Some are outdated (and even open sourced), others still running

Liquidation

    - $5M+ of collateral liquidated (Aave, Morpho, Compound, and other non-EVM protocols)

    - #1 liquidator on multiple chains for several quarters — one of the top liquidation here

    - Sub-20ms recomputation of thousands of health factors

    - Execution speed optimization across latency, networking, and node infrastructure, with competitor auction/bid analysis

Arbitrage

    - DEX: $10M+ of volume made via arbitrage, mostly on Uniswap V2/V3 and forks on exotic chains

Hyperliquid builder

    - L1 orderbook systematic trader (manual and bot), stat arb with CEX/HyperEVM (volume-farming)

    - $30K bounty from Hyperliquid hackathon, and a few K$ from other grants

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