Blog · page 11

Bot engineering, in depth.

Page 11 of 26 — how trading bots actually work on Solana, Hyperliquid and Polymarket.

Comparisons
May 20, 2026·5 min read

Build vs Buy a Solana Trading Bot: True Cost Breakdown

Detailed cost model comparing in-house bot development (engineer salaries, infra, audit fees) against buying a white-label or managed trading bot solution. Includes a break-even analysis for funds trading under $500k versus over $5m AUM.

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Robinhood Chain
May 20, 2026·6 min read

Deploying Smart Contracts on Robinhood Chain: A Dev Walkthrough

A dev walkthrough for deploying contracts on Robinhood Chain — where Arbitrum tooling works unchanged and where it doesn't.

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Solana
May 20, 2026·4 min read

Best Solana RPC for Trading Bots: Reproducible Latency Benchmark

Benchmark Helius, QuickNode, Triton and self-hosted Solana RPC endpoints with a reproducible Node.js harness for p50/p95/p99 latency, errors and slot freshness.

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Hyperliquid
May 20, 2026·6 min read

What Does a Hyperliquid Trading Bot Developer Actually Cost?

What it really costs to hire a Hyperliquid bot developer: market maker, TWAP, and arb bot pricing broken down by scope, audit, and infra.

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Strategies
May 20, 2026·5 min read

Is It Worth Hiring an HFT Developer for Your Polymarket Bot?

Weighs the cost of a senior algo engineer against the edge uplift achievable in Polymarket's on-chain CLOB, given current market depth and typical bid-ask spreads. Outlines the specific skills — Solidity-free CLOB integration, latency profiling, probability calibration — that matter most.

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MEV
May 20, 2026·6 min read

Solana Searcher Infrastructure: Colocation, RPCs and Slot Leaders

Winning Jito bundles consistently comes down to infrastructure as much as strategy — this guide covers choosing RPC providers, colocating near Jito block engine endpoints, tracking the slot-leader schedule to pre-route bundles, and the realistic latency budget a competitive searcher needs in 2025.

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Solana
May 19, 2026·4 min read

Using the Solana Leader Schedule to Time Bot Transactions

Knowing which validator leads the next slot lets you route transactions to avoid unstaked validators and reduce dropped-block risk. This post shows how to query the leader schedule and build slot-aware submission logic.

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Polymarket
May 19, 2026·6 min read

Is Polymarket Market Making Still Profitable in 2026?

Is Polymarket market making profitable in 2026? An engineer's honest look at spread compression, reward-program yields and adverse selection on the CLOB.

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Hyperliquid
May 19, 2026·6 min read

How Hyperliquid's Oracle Pricing Triggers Liquidations

How Hyperliquid computes oracle and mark price from validator medians, and how to model liquidation thresholds before a cascade eats your position.

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Polymarket
May 18, 2026·6 min read

Polymarket vs Kalshi for Bot Builders: API & Edge Compared

A builder's polymarket vs kalshi api comparison: CLOB signing, oracle vs regulated settlement, rate limits, and where bots actually capture edge.

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Solana
May 18, 2026·5 min read

Is Running a Solana Sniper Bot Still Profitable in 2025

Increased competition, Jito tip inflation, and launchpad anti-bot measures have compressed sniper margins sharply since 2023. We look at realistic P&L data, edge decay curves, and where sustainable alpha still exists on Solana.

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Polymarket
May 18, 2026·6 min read

Polymarket CLOB vs AMM Prediction Markets: Which Wins on Liquidity?

Polymarket CLOB vs AMM: order book depth beats bonding curves on liquid markets, with real slippage math showing why spreads stay tighter.

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Polymarket
May 17, 2026·6 min read

Hire a Polymarket Bot Developer: What to Look For

Before you hire a Polymarket bot developer, vet three things: CLOB order signing, UMA resolution risk, and Polygon infra. A buyer's guide to what matters.

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Guides
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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Polymarket
May 16, 2026·6 min read

How UMA's Optimistic Oracle Actually Resolves Polymarket Markets

How UMA's Optimistic Oracle resolves Polymarket markets: proposal bonds, the 2-hour liveness window, DVM escalation, and failure modes.

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Comparisons
May 16, 2026·5 min read

Build vs Buy a Solana Trading Bot in 2025: Full Cost Breakdown

Should a crypto fund build a custom Solana bot or license an existing platform? This article compares upfront dev cost, ongoing infra spend, time-to-live, and alpha decay for both paths.

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Polymarket
May 16, 2026·5 min read

Is It Worth Being a Polymarket Liquidity Provider? Fee Rebate Analysis

A quantitative look at Polymarket's maker rebate structure, typical fill rates across high- and low-volume markets, and net P&L scenarios that determine whether passive market-making is profitable after gas costs.

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Polymarket
May 16, 2026·6 min read

Managing USDC.e Allowances & Polygon Gas for Polymarket Bots

A practical polymarket usdc allowance polygon gas guide: CTF/exchange approvals, nonce handling and gas estimation that keep your bot from silently dying.

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Robinhood Chain
May 16, 2026·6 min read

RPC & Infra Considerations for Robinhood Chain Trading Bots

Robinhood Chain RPC access, block timing, and Ethereum settlement lag shape how a trading bot actually performs.

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Polymarket
May 15, 2026·5 min read

Polymarket Negative Risk: How It Works and When to Use It

A technical breakdown of Polymarket's negative-risk feature — how holding complementary share positions nets out exposure, reduces required collateral, and creates capital-efficient multi-leg trades.

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Polymarket
May 15, 2026·6 min read

Polymarket vs Kalshi: Which CLOB Is Better for Algo Traders?

Polymarket vs Kalshi compared for algo traders: on-chain USDC settlement, API auth, resolution risk, fees, and liquidity across both CLOBs.

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Polymarket
May 15, 2026·6 min read

Backtesting Polymarket Strategies with Historical CLOB Data

A hands-on guide to Polymarket backtesting historical data: reconstruct CLOB order books from the subgraph and build a fill-aware backtester that survives live trading.

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Polymarket
May 14, 2026·6 min read

Gnosis Conditional Tokens Framework: The Engine Behind Polymarket

How Gnosis CTF's ERC-1155 outcome tokens, splitPosition and mergePositions power every Polymarket market under the hood.

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Strategies
May 14, 2026·5 min read

Hiring a Crypto Algo Developer in 2025: Cost & What to Expect

Breaks down the freelance vs full-time vs studio trade-off for founders building Solana or Hyperliquid bots, with realistic rate ranges, screening tests, and the red flags that indicate a candidate cannot deliver production-grade latency.

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