I’m Ivan Sudarev, co-founder of Bluesnake Labs. We build and operate MEV searchers across EVM chains, mostly around DEX arbitrage.
I started Bluesnake while studying at MIPT. By the end of my second year, it was doing well enough that I took academic leave and went full time. We’ve been working on it for the past three years.
Bluesnake has been continuously profitable since 2023. We have never raised outside capital, and all of the company’s revenue comes from our own trading. We don’t sell software, signals or consulting.
During Base Szn, we were one of the top three searchers on Base. We also work directly with private order flow providers, including Blink, Merkl and bloXroute.
I’m happy to talk about the work, without leaking alpha.
I’m now in my fourth year of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science on the joint MIPT–NES programme. Before Bluesnake, I worked at Yandex. Before university, I was the absolute winner of the All-Russian School Olympiad in Economics.
You can usually find me at Devcon. Outside work, I listen to a lot of UK underground; the playlist is linked above.
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