can someone tell me if beating snipers on a token launch will work via alchemy websockets for pending blocks and submitting a order with tons of max gas? or is it more complicated than this?

p sure the answer is yes you just gotta listen for the pending tx (through a provider cause we can't access Base sequencer directly) -- when flashblocks come out it'll be a lot harder though https://chatgpt.com/canvas/shared/6834e459e0a88191984b4b357498462a

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love this, thank you!!!! it was a worthwhile experiment for me cause i finally got to learn what people mean when they say base is decentralized

both easier and more complex than this, but that's the basic idea!

high level
1. pick your people of interest
2. wait for them to clank
3. immediately snipe

1. pick your people of interest
conceptually easy, but remember that the creator argument can be set to anything by anyone. so you'll need some extra filtering to avoid getting phished

2. wait for them to clank
you can listen for pending txs or spam base blocks. l2 fees are cheap (esp compared to sniper payout) so we've seen this in the past

3. immediately snipe
most people here use a smart contract that they can call to provide idempotency and other logic like calling `getTokensDeployedByUser` to get the latest token addr. this part is interesting because you actually shouldn't pass in the max gas! to land in the same block as the token deployment, your tx has to land _after_ the token deployment (so prio gas has to be lower). advanced snipers roughly know which blocks will hit and spam multiple txs/block

happy to go deeper on any part of this too