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#Flashbots

System-level analysis and comparisons within this domain.

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$213M+ Extracted: The 2021 Polygon Arbitrage MEV Explosion No One Can Recreate Today

A quantified breakdown of Polygon’s early MEV era showing $45M–$213M+ in extracted value, bot dominance, and why modern arbitrage conditions structurally disappeared.

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Why $7K/Day Arbitrage Bots Disappeared After the 2021 Polygon MEV Era

A structural breakdown of why early Polygon arbitrage bots generating $6.8K–$7K/day collapsed as MEV competition, Flashbots infrastructure, and execution-layer auctions eliminated persistent inefficiencies.

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