Crypto

Exploring the frontiers of decentralized finance, from trading bots to blockchain development.

My Journey into Crypto

One of the first things I did after learning briefly about programming was instantly jump into crypto to develop my own trading bot. I quickly realised that I would need to have quite a lot of experience and knowledge of how blockchains work to have a chance of succeeding.

Uniswap
Raydium
Solana
Ethereum
Mempool

Trading Bot Analysis

This led me to research other trading bots I had seen in the space, specifically a bot called orcACR. I tracked its trading history over several months, using RStudio to analyze the data and identify patterns in its behaviour.

While I never fully reverse-engineered its sophisticated strategy, I uncovered links to a wallet address associated with a hedge fund, which I believe operated the bot that was generating over $100,000 weekly.

Solana Market Graph

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MEV Protection

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The Pump.eth Platform

Inspired by pump.fun on Solana, I began creating pump.eth, a platform for deploying smart contracts and creating tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. This project forced me to learn a great deal about Solidity, the programming language for Ethereum smart contracts.

It was also a deep dive into market mechanics, such as bonding curves and various types of liquidity pools.

Understanding Blockchain

Throughout all my projects, I spent a significant amount of time figuring out how the blockchain worked. This involved reading extensive documentation for Solana/web3.js, which was the primary package for interacting with the Solana ecosystem at the time.

I believe crypto is one of the most exciting fields for developers due to the robust frameworks, strong community support, and the limitless opportunities for creating innovative projects with smart contracts.