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August 2025

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Quant 🤝 Degen

I am working with Vertox on a series of articles to bridge the gap between the concepts used to identify statistical arbitrage opportunities and the implementation of those strategies onchain.

I’m excited about this one, and I know I’m going to learn a lot. My background is in engineered systems so deterministic, mechanical trading appeals to me. I understand that opportunities exist if you can identify statistical patterns of broad trading behavior, but I have never done it. Working with Vertox will help me (and you) speed-run the concepts.

Check out his publication below.

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Degenbot Built-Ins

I have had a lot of success integrating SQLite into degenbot. It is high performance, great for fixed format data, standalone, lighter than JSON, safer to update, and easier to maintain across releases.

Building against it will allow me to wrap many common accessory scripts for pool fetchers, scraping, and liquidity snapshotting, into degenbot itself.

It also makes startup faster, since immutable attributes like contract addresses, token decimals, pool fees, etc. can be cached and read quickly instead of being fetched repeatedly from the chain.

I’ll be rolling these out across the 0.5.0 release series. An alpha preview was pushed to support the flashblocks backrunner project, and I’ll continue making releases until it’s polished enough for general availability.

As I develop these new features, I’ll write a short outline of why and how to use it.

The end goal is to retire many of the accessory scripts that come with these project posts in favor of a simple set of commands:

• Upgrade degenbot

• Upgrade database

• Run a few built-ins

• Run the bot

Simple really — let’s hope it works out!