Building MEV Shield: 6 Months of Nights and Weekends

While Silicon Valley startups were raising millions for similar ideas, I was building MEV Shield during nights and weekends after my day job. No funding, no team, just a developer with a problem to solve.

The journey included:

• 3 complete rewrites as I learned modern C++ best practices
• Countless failed compilations as I mastered template metaprogramming
• Realizing that most “real-time” systems are actually using HTTP polling with 500ms intervals
• Discovering that lock-free programming is as much art as science

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