xMEV, an apt exploration

This is a small exploration on the xMEV opportunities between Polygon and Ethereum. It's a data analysis exercise on a few parameters that I believe are crucial in being able to offer xMEV opportunities to searchers, a-la-Flashbots.

This repository is a draft and accompanies a draft blog-post. Everything will be released in good time.

Explore

• data/: Data from the capturing script in .csv. The correct data are the ones with the name _correct.
• capture/: The capturing script that runs on a remote server and captures data for our analysis. It's written in Javascript and pushes the data to InfluxDB for easy visualization and explort
• xmev.ipynb: The main corpus of the analysis, in the form of a Jupyter Notebook. Mainly some statistical analysis and some forecasting.