Crypto Trading Execution with Flash Loans, Web3 and Hardhat

Reduce risk on Arbitrage with Uniswap and PancakeSwap Flash Swap smart contracts. Learn to interact with the blockchain.

Created by: Shaun McDonogh
Lead Analyst and Full Stack (Python and React) Developer

What Will I Learn?

• Build your own Flash Loan (Flash Swap) Smart Contracts for arbitrage across multiple exchanges
• Perform a triangular arbitrage Flash Loan (FlashSwap) transaction on Pancakeswap
• Write and test a Flash Loan Smart Contract with HardHat
• Build a trading algorithm which can read data and transact a swap in Python
• Read and Write data to the Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain blockchains
• Send and check transactions via Web3
• Understand how to use Ethers JS for interacting with Smart Contracts
• Calculate Gas used on transactions
• Deploy Smart Contracts to the Ethereum blockchain

Requirements

• Basic understanding of programming, in particular with Python and/or Javascript
• Knowledge of cryptocurrency and DeFi exchanges such as Uniswap and PancakeSwap
• Basic knowledge of Arbitrage (preferably completed the Triangular Arbitrage course)

Target audience

• Traders with an interest in programming looking to lower risk in arbitrage trading
• Programmers with an interest in trading looking to work on an interesting project to learn solidity