Where does real MEV profit come from?
Most people think MEV is mainly:
- sandwich attacks
- liquidations
- DEX-to-DEX arbitrage
But the bigger picture is different.
A lot of MEV profit can come from simple CEX-DEX arbitrage.
I recently read a paper where the authors analyzed a Uniswap V2 ETH-USDT pool.
The numbers were interesting.
Daily volume:
CEX-DEX arbitrage: ~$1.97M
Sandwich attacks: ~$89K
Atomic DEX-DEX arb: ~$45K
So CEX-DEX arb volume was:
~22x bigger than sandwich volume
~43x bigger than atomic DEX-DEX arb volume
And profit showed the same pattern:
Sandwich: ~$414
Atomic arb: ~$136
Old Black-Scholes model: ~$48
CEX-DEX arbitrage: ~$2,030
The main idea is simple:
Not all MEV profit comes from attacking users.
A large part can come from keeping prices between centralized exchanges and DEX pools in sync.
CEX price moves first.
DEX pool becomes outdated.
Arbitrageurs update the price and take the spread.
That is why CEX-DEX arbitrage is one of the most important parts of real MEV.
Less “evil MEV”.
More market structure.
Claude went from
«best coding tool on the market»
to
«how fast will it randomly burn my limit today?»
That’s insane for a paid product.
People are paying serious money
and still getting hit with session limits,
weekly limits,
moving reset windows,
and zero clarity.
At this point,
the problem isn’t model quality.
It’s that the product feels unreliable as hell.
And once a paid tool feels random,
it stops being worth building around.
Hot take:
AI won’t replace good engineers.
But it will replace a lot of slow work.
Things like:
- searching for stuff for too long
- staring at a blank screen
- writing the first rough version
- wasting time on boring debug work
The real advantage is not just «using AI».
The real advantage is using it to:
move faster,
save time,
and make more money.
Most people still use it the wrong way.
3rd Airdrop Distributed
We’ve just distributed 17M WOMO (out of 65.8M circulating) that’s 25.8% of the $600k treasury = $155k
In total, around $300k in airdrops has been distributed since launch. Congrats to everyone who claimed their share!
Over the next 4 days the rebase continues.
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The way I see it
Let’s say I have 10k$ and I put it into some protocol to earn 10% APY on stablecoins that’s 1k$ per year.
Or, I could buy $WM at a price that’s 2x below the backing price.
With the same 10k$, I could claim 20k$ worth from the treasury and earn 2k$ per year from farming.
To me, it’s a no-brainer if you’re here for the long run.
If you don’t want to buy it, I’ll just use all the money I have to accumulate $WM myself in order to farm yield through the treasury.
How to Turn $1,000 into 10% of the $WOMO Supply
By the end of the rebase, it will be possible to stake that 10% and receive a corresponding share of the treasury, as described in this post:
https://t.co/bERfMjUqDL
By then, the treasury could be around $5 mil and generate approximately $300–500k per year.
Today, I’m going to create a public wallet and deposit 1k$ into it. I’ll follow my strategy of bonding and staking in a way that doesn’t affect the chart, aiming to eventually own 10% of the treasury.
The Debank link to the wallet will be at the end of this post.
Intro
Currently, around 0.8% of the supply is burned daily that’s about 8,000,000 $WM (~$64,000).
Of that, around $11,600 is distributed to stakers split 50/50 between the WM-S and WM-USDC staking pools.
Today, I’ll do my first bond using $100 (50 USDC + 50 $WM), with a 30% bonus and a 36-hour vesting period.
The remaining $900 I will stake in the WM-USDC pool, since it has lower TVL and offers higher rewards.
(Keep an eye on my wallet I may switch pools if the yield changes.)
Day 1
These $900 will earn me approximately $49.5 per day (5.5% daily APR).
I’ll sell these rewards and if everyone followed this same strategy, it wouldn’t hurt the chart, since more tokens are burned than sold.
The plan is to use the profits from staking to rebond once my first bond matures.
What the chart looks like if you always sell staking rewards and use them for rebonding.
The chart has enough time to recover thanks to the rebase.
Day 3
After 36 hours, my $100 bond will mature, and I’ll receive $130 in WOMO tokens.
By then, staking will have earned me 1.5 days × $49.5 = $74.25.
I’ll need an additional $55.75 to make another rebond I’ll top this up from outside the account.
I’ll then place a $260 bond into the WM-USDC pool, again with a 30% bonus and 7-day vesting.
After 7 days, I’ll receive $338 in WOMO.
Meanwhile, staking will have earned me 7 × $49.5 = $346.
Day 10
I rebond again, this time bonding $676 for 7 days.
This will return $878.80 in $WM.
From staking, I’ll earn another $346 that week.
I’ll still need $532, which I’ll get by selling part of my WOMO around $266 worth.
This won’t cause any sharp chart dips, even if the entire community follows this guide. (We tested a similar chart setup for two months see example.)
Conclusion
By staking and only selling staking rewards + any leftovers after bonding, the chart has time to recover weekly through the rebase.
This strategy allows me to accumulate a large share of the supply potentially 10% by the end of the rebase using just $1,000.
https://t.co/CW0MsB4Hl6
MCLB DAO has entered a strategic position in WOMO: ~1.9M $WM vesting over 5 days for 50,000 $S.
Not just a buy — it's a calculated bet on @womofi's deflationary mechanics and our commitment to backing experiments that push DeFi forward on @SonicLabs.
WOMO IS OFFICIALLY LIVE!
You can now provide liquidity and stake for high APR, or bond assets at a discount to stack more $WM
Bonds:
✅ $WM / $S (20% discount)
✅ $WM / $USDC (20% discount)
✅ $WM / $ANON (10% discount)
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WOMO GUILD | WEEK 3 MISSIONS JUST LANDED
A new week brings new projects — featuring:
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✅ @Equalizer0x
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✅ @SiloFinance
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The 5M $WoMo airdrop is still up for grabs — every quest gets you closer. 🎁
See all quests in our @guildxyz 👇
WEEK 2: NEW WOMO GUILD QUESTS ARE LIVE!
The 5M $WoMo airdrop quests are still ongoing in our guild.
This week’s featured protocols:
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Earn more points, get a bigger share of the airdrop 🪂
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🔹 $USDC
🔹 $LAMBO
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