this project was hard, and vibe coding it made me want to off myself.

examples:

steps to get ts working:

1. create a virtual environment (preferably with conda, but python -m venv .venv will be fine) && run pip install -r requirements.txt.
2. run python download_mempool_historical.py to download most recent 7 days of mempool dumps. this will be like 40+ gigs of data (like 8-9 million txs).
3. run python train_mev_detector_improved.py. this will train a lightGBM model off of data labeled by the flashboys algorithm.
4. run python analyze_auction_timing.py to see how early detections can be made. don't get too excited.
5. run python live_mempool_scorer.py. when it doesn't that well, don't ask me cuz i don't fucking know how to fix it either.