FlashLoans & Arbitrage

DeFi 201
#1

Hi,
Lets discuss how to do arbitrage with Flashloans.
Thank you

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#2

Hey, I was just about to create this topic but I noticed thereā€™s already an existing topic. Have you been able to make any progress in this area?

#3

I havenā€™t got any reply but Ivan did mention they are coming out with a course just for flashloans. So just waiting for that.

#4

Were you asking about flash loans on the Aave platform? I know they offer that option.

#5

I was asking about flash loans in general. I know there are a bunch of platforms which provide that option. But I do know about AAve. Itā€™ll be interesting to learn more about it.

#6

Hi @aenhsaihan did you check the defi 201 course on our academy it explains everything you need to know about flashloans and Arbitrage. @amadeobrands is a great instructor.

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#7

Hey
Im trying to perform a flashloan for a couple of daysā€¦ it shows me that ā€œgas required exceeds allowance (11732908) or always failing transactionā€
@amadeobrands does this mean that I dont have enough ethereum in my metamask to deploy my contract?

#8

Found this cool cheat sheat for Flash loans using

See here the combo: https://t.co/Ng4duV6LuK?amp=1
I did make some profit at high DAI price and LOW Gas price :slight_smile:

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#9

Hey I just signed up for the Academy. Iā€™m wondering how deep I need to get into the programming side if all I want to be able to do is program flash loans at this point. Any advice would be great.

#10

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#11

Thanks. I got into the Defi 201 videos to get the basic idea of flash loans and now I will backtrack a bit to ETH programming 101 to fill in the earlier materials before continuing.

#12

hello guys,

Iā€™m trying to follow the flash loan test as shown in the videos. When trying to get DAI from aave testnet (https://testnet.aave.com/faucet ) it just keep loading and loadingā€¦so I donā€™t get anything.

same thing with other coins.

i have kovan testnet on metamask.

any ideas?

thanks

#13

Hello, I am trying to create a flashloan and I noticed on the Aave site where it lists the live reserve asset addresses, that the ETH address looks odd and is also displayed in black instead of as a link.

At the top of the page it says ā€œSince ETH is used directly in the protocol (instead of an abstraction such as WETH), we use a mock address to indicate ETH:0xEeeeeEeeeEeEeeEeEeEeeEEEeeeeEeeeeeeeEEeEā€

What does this mean exactly? If this is not a real eth address then what address should be used to pull from for flash loans if you want the loan to be gotten in eth?

#14

Can anyone help me on this?

#15

In case of arbitrage example in DeFi 201 course we need 2 exchanges.
Where can I find the uniswap factory from exchanges?

#16

Hello Amadeo,
when I try to deploy Arbitrage.sol, after the approve on Metamask the transaction remain always pending.
Also with myflashloan.sol I have the same issue. There are Problems in Kovan network ? I forgot something to do ?
I have simply copied code from Github to Remix. But I have always these issues.
Thanks

#17

Hi @amadeobrands!

When Iā€™m trying to call makeArbitrage() from https://github.com/Robsonsjre/FlashloanUsecases/blob/master/contracts/arbitrage/Arbitrageur.sol it or any other contract functions remix warns me with a message ā€œGas estimation errored with the following message (see below). The transaction execution will likely fail. Do you want to force sending?
The execution failed due to an exception. Revertedā€

Iā€™ve funded the contract as was explained in the basic flash loan example video. So, it should have enough funds to pay the aave fee. So, itā€™s not that.

Any ideas?

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#19

The status of the transaction is just ā€œFailā€: https://kovan.etherscan.io/tx/0x67917484feedc8f984ffeff4473bb45007ed144f8ee45f4e480624b976dade90
No details on the error. By the way, when I was trying to make an arbitrage for 10 DAI, it was failing as well, but with ā€œFail with error ā€˜The requested amount is too small for a flashLoan.ā€™ā€ error message: https://kovan.etherscan.io/tx/0x9c97cd83221c02ee1c8aaf42fff463d1283cc929d1a960c468a667234f9bc9b7
So, I ended up with 10000 DAI that fails with no error message. Maybe something has changed and itā€™s time to update the course slightly?

At the same time when I swap the addresses of UNISWAP_FACTORY_A and UNISWAP_FACTORY_B it fails correctly with the message ā€œDid not profitā€. As expected. https://kovan.etherscan.io/tx/0xb1b032b09bf60acea33c55b400a807d73d1cf591dabbd9cd6598a7b5730d22d1

Ouch. And now https://kovan-uniswap.netlify.app/swap and https://kovan-uniswap2.netlify.app/swap respond with " Unavailable For Legal Reasons". Could you please update the course, guys? @ivanimgur-2020_12_22-17:28:41

#20

I had the same problem too. Iā€™ve raised it as an issue on GitHub. Something must have changed with the API or so.

#21

I know it may be very simple and itā€™s probably not the issue but did you make sure you raised the Gas Fee