arbOnlyMEV Stream

The arbOnlyMEV stream provides real-time access to private transactions that carry arbitrage potential. These transactions are submitted privately via bloXroute’s and are not visible in the public mempool or standard transaction feeds.

Searchers use this stream to identify MEV opportunities and submit backrun-only bundles.

Service available via Cloud API only.

Stream Endpoint

• Method: arbOnlyMEV

• Endpoint: backrunme.blxrbdn.com

Parameters

include	Fields to include in the transaction stream.	transactions

Examples

wscat

wscat -c wss://backrunme.blxrbdn.com/ws --no-check --header "Authorization: <YOUR-AUTHORIZATION-HEADER>"
> {"id": 1, "method": "subscribe", "params": ["arbOnlyMEV", {"include": ["transactions"]}]}
< ......

Node.js

var fs = require('fs');
const WebSocket = require('ws');

const ws = new WebSocket(
  "wss://backrunme.blxrbdn.com/ws", 
  {
    headers: { 
      "Authorization" : <YOUR-AUTHORIZATION-HEADER> 
    },
    rejectUnauthorized: false,
  }
);

function proceed() {
    ws.send(`{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "subscribe", "params": ["arbOnlyMEV", {"include": ["transactions"]}]}`);
}


function handle(nextNotification) {
    console.log(nextNotification.toString()); // or process it generally
}

ws.on('open', proceed);
ws.on('message', handle);

Python

import asyncio, json, websockets

async def main():
    auth_key = "YOUR_AUTHORIZATION_HEADER"
    uri = 'wss://backrunme.blxrbdn.com/ws'
    async with websockets.connect(
            uri,
            header=["Authorization:{}".format(auth_key)],            
            sslopt={"cert_reqs": ssl.CERT_NONE},
    ) as websocket:
        subscribe_request = {
            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
            "id": 1,
            "method": "subscribe",
            "params": ["arbOnlyMEV", {"include": ["transactions"]}]
        }
        await websocket.send(json.dumps(subscribe_request))
        response = await websocket.recv()
        subscription_id = json.loads(response)["result"]

        while True:
            next_notification = await websocket.recv()
            print(next_notification)  # or process it generally

        unsubscribe_request = {
            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
            "id": 2,
            "method": "unsubscribe",
            "params": [subscription_id]
        }
        await websocket.send(json.dumps(unsubscribe_request))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(main())    

Golang

package main

import (
	"crypto/tls"
	"fmt"
	"github.com/gorilla/websocket"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
  tlsConfig := &tls.Config{
  	InsecureSkipVerify: true,
  }
  dialer := websocket.DefaultDialer
  dialer.TLSClientConfig = tlsConfig
  wsSubscriber, _, err := dialer.Dial("wss://backrunme.blxrbdn.com/ws", http.Header{"Authorization": []string{<YOUR-AUTHORIZATION-HEADER>}})

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}

	subRequest := `{"id": 1, "method": "subscribe", "params": ["arbOnlyMEV", {"include": ["transactions"]}]}`
	err = wsSubscriber.WriteMessage(websocket.TextMessage, []byte(subRequest))
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}

	for {
		_, nextNotification, err := wsSubscriber.ReadMessage()
		if err != nil {
			fmt.Println(err)
		}
		fmt.Println(string(nextNotification)) // or process it generally
	}
}

Response

Transaction Event

<<< {
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": null,
  "method": "subscribe",
  "params": {
    "subscription": "3c87cccd-0df5-4938-947e-b24f7602f147",
    "result": {
      "transactions": [
          {
          "txHash": "0x88b...296",
          "txContents": {
            "from": "0x6e9...f89",
            "gas": "0x299b6",
            "gasPrice": "0xf9982de00",
            "hash": "0x88b...296",
            "input": "0x18...cc2",
            "nonce": "0xf",
            "value": "0x0",
            "type": "0x0",
            "to": "0x7a2...88d"
          },
          "localRegion": true
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}