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24 articles on Guides — how it works under the hood and how we build it.

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Jul 31, 2026·1 min read

RPC Benchmark Percentiles Explained: p50, p95 and p99

Why averages hide the latency spikes that break trading bots, wallets and production blockchain applications.

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Jul 31, 2026·1 min read

Trading Dashboard Development Cost: Features That Drive the Budget

What determines the cost of a custom trading dashboard, from read-only analytics to execution controls.

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May 19, 2026·6 min read

TON Smart Contract Audit: What FunC and Tact Auditors Check

A TON smart contract audit checks bounce handling, message gas flow, and TVM quirks that generic EVM checklists miss.

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May 16, 2026·6 min read

Jetton and NFT Standard Pitfalls on TON: A Security Guide

A security guide to TON jetton security: real minting bugs, transfer-notification spoofing, and NFT ownership pitfalls we've found in audits.

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May 14, 2026·6 min read

Smart Contract Audit Cost in 2026: EVM vs Solana vs TON

Smart contract audit cost in 2026 ranges from $3k to $150k+. Here's what actually drives the number across EVM, Solana, and TON.

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May 11, 2026·6 min read

Do You Need a Smart Contract Audit Before Launch?

Do I need a smart contract audit before launch? A founder's framework: TVL at risk, upgradeability, admin keys, and mainnet history.

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May 8, 2026·6 min read

How to Choose a Smart Contract Auditor: A Vetting Checklist

A concrete vetting checklist for how to choose a smart contract auditor: past reports, tooling stack, manual-review ratio, and remediation terms.

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May 5, 2026·6 min read

After the Audit: Remediation and Re-Verification Explained

A practical guide to post-audit remediation: how fix-verify-certify loops work, what re-verification really checks, and how on-chain certificates prove it.

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May 2, 2026·5 min read

EVM Audit Checklist: What Foundry and Slither Actually Test

An EVM smart contract audit checklist: what Foundry fuzzing and Slither actually catch, and where manual review still has to close the gap.

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Apr 29, 2026·5 min read

TON Contract Security Pitfalls: Bounces, Replay, Gas Griefing

TON smart contract security pitfalls that EVM-trained reviewers miss: unhandled bounces, message replay, and gas griefing explained.

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Apr 7, 2026·4 min read

How Crypto Arbitrage Bots Work: A Plain-English Guide

A plain-English breakdown of how arbitrage bots detect price gaps, race to fill them, and manage risk — covering latency, execution, and the real mechanics behind profitable strategies.

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Apr 6, 2026·6 min read

Jito vs Flashbots: MEV Auctions on Solana vs Ethereum

Jito vs Flashbots: how bundle auctions, tip markets, and inclusion guarantees differ between Solana and Ethereum, and what porting MEV strategy actually takes.

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Apr 5, 2026·6 min read

Yellowstone gRPC vs Standard Solana RPC for Bot Latency

Yellowstone gRPC vs Solana RPC compared for bot latency: Geyser streaming cuts detection time from 500ms+ to under 150ms.

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Apr 4, 2026·5 min read

Anchor vs Native Rust: Which Is Safer to Audit on Solana

Anchor vs native Rust on Solana: how attack surface, constraint gaps, and audit checklists differ, plus a clear verdict on which to build with.

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Apr 3, 2026·6 min read

Firedancer Explained: What It Means for Bot Developers

Firedancer solana client rebuilds the validator from scratch for throughput. Here's what its tile pipeline and multi-client push mean for bot latency.

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Apr 2, 2026·6 min read

Manual Audit vs Slither/MythX: Is an Automated Scan Enough?

Slither and MythX catch reentrancy and known bug patterns in minutes. They miss business-logic flaws. Here's what each layer actually covers.

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Mar 29, 2026·4 min read

How Much Does a Custom Crypto Trading Bot Cost?

From a simple Solana sniper to a full market-maker with live inventory skew — here's what custom crypto trading bot development actually costs, tier by tier.

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Mar 16, 2026·6 min read

Trading Bot Order State Machines: Idempotent Fills & Crash Recovery

A builder's guide to trading bot order state machine crash recovery: persist the lifecycle, dedupe fills, and get exactly-once placement across Jito, Hyperliquid, and Polymarket.

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Mar 15, 2026·7 min read

Polymarket Neg-Risk Adapter: Split/Merge Arbitrage Mechanics

How a bot exploits Polymarket neg risk adapter split merge convert calls to arb sum-of-outcomes mispricing — with the Polygon gas math that decides the trade.

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Mar 14, 2026·6 min read

How to Write a Trading Bot Spec That Gets an Accurate Quote

A hire-side template for your trading bot development scope of work spec — venues, latency budgets, RPC/Geyser assumptions and acceptance tests for a firm quote.

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Mar 10, 2026·4 min read

Backtesting Crypto Bots: Avoiding the Overfitting Trap

Learn how walk-forward testing and realistic fee modeling separate genuinely profitable crypto bots from beautifully curve-fit disasters.

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Dec 27, 2025·4 min read

How Market-Making Bots Work: Spreads, Inventory and Skew

A concrete look at the spread-capture and inventory-risk loop that drives every market-making bot, from CLOB order placement to real-time skew and kill-switches.

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Nov 16, 2025·8 min read

Crypto Trading Bot Glossary: 60 Terms Builders Must Know

Every critical term across sniping, MEV, market-making, and trading infrastructure — one definitive crypto trading bot glossary for builders.

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Nov 6, 2025·4 min read

Trading Bot Risk Management: Kill-Switches That Save Capital

Circuit-breakers, drawdown caps, and dead-man switches aren't optional — they're the difference between a controlled loss and a blown account.

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