Blog · page 13

Bot engineering, in depth.

Page 13 of 25 — how trading bots actually work on Solana, Hyperliquid and Polymarket.

Apr 23, 2026·6 min read

Do You Need a Solana Program Audit Before Mainnet Launch?

A risk-based framework for deciding if you need a solana audit before launch, scored on upgrade authority, TVL, and admin-key exposure.

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Hyperliquid

Apr 23, 2026·4 min read

Hyperliquid Market Making: Capturing Maker Rebates at Scale

A practical breakdown of how to build a hyperliquid maker rebate bot that optimizes quote placement around tier thresholds, inventory limits, and CLOB dynamics.

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Infrastructure

Apr 23, 2026·6 min read

Load-Balancing Solana RPC: Weighted HAProxy & Nginx for Bot Fleets

Solana RPC load balancing with HAProxy and Nginx: latency-weighted backends across Helius, Triton, QuickNode and a self-hosted node, with failover bots never see.

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Infrastructure

Apr 22, 2026·7 min read

UMA's Optimistic Oracle: How Polymarket Resolves Disputed Markets

UMA optimistic oracle explained: how Polymarket's propose-dispute-vote flow settles markets, the bond math, and how whales game DVM votes.

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Infrastructure

Apr 22, 2026·6 min read

Secrets & Key Management with Vault for Crypto Trading Bots

Vault secrets management for trading bot keys: inject hot-wallet keys and API creds at runtime, sign with transit, and rotate dynamic secrets without touching disk.

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Infrastructure

Apr 21, 2026·6 min read

Jupiter vs 1inch: How Solana and EVM Swap Routing Differ

Jupiter vs 1inch routing compared: how Metis and Pathfinder split orders across Solana and EVM pools, and what it costs you in fees and slippage.

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Risk

Apr 21, 2026·5 min read

How to Paper-Trade a Solana Bot Before Going Live With Real Capital

Skipping a dry-run phase is one of the most expensive mistakes new bot operators make. We explain how to wire a Solana bot to a devnet fork or a shadow ledger so strategy logic is validated without risking a single lamport.

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Strategies

Apr 21, 2026·7 min read

Meteora DLMM Fee Farming: Auto-Rebalancing LP Bot Strategy

A meteora dlmm fee farming strategy that auto-recentres bins around price to keep liquidity active and maximise dynamic-fee capture, with real rebalance triggers.

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Solana

Apr 20, 2026·7 min read

Post-Audit Remediation: Fixing Solana Findings the Right Way

A field guide to the Solana audit remediation process: fix, verify, re-audit, and how to negotiate cost and timeline for closing findings.

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Infrastructure

Apr 20, 2026·6 min read

Meteora DLMM vs Uniswap v3: Bin-Based vs Tick-Based Liquidity

Meteora DLMM vs Uniswap v3: how zero-slippage bins differ from concentrated-liquidity ticks, and which model wins for your LP strategy.

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Strategies

Apr 19, 2026·7 min read

JIT Liquidity on Solana: Just-in-Time LP Sandwiching for Meteora

A jit liquidity solana strategy for Meteora DLMM: detect big swaps via Yellowstone, add single-bin LP for one slot in a Jito bundle, earn the fee, exit.

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Robinhood Chain

Apr 19, 2026·7 min read

Robinhood Chain vs Other Tokenized RWA Venues: A 2026 Map

A tokenized RWA venues comparison: how Robinhood Chain's 24/7 stock tokens stack up against tokenized treasuries, bearer equities, and private credit pools.

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Risk

Apr 19, 2026·5 min read

How to Build a Hard Kill Switch for Solana Trading Bots

Step-by-step guide to implementing a reliable kill switch using Solana account freezing, on-chain authority revocation, and an out-of-band emergency shutdown endpoint so your bot halts within one slot even if your main server is compromised.

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Infrastructure

Apr 19, 2026·6 min read

Flashbots MEV-Boost vs Jito Bundles: EVM and Solana MEV Compared

Flashbots vs Jito bundles compared: how MEV-Boost's PBS auction and Jito's block-engine tips differ, and what each means for searcher latency and PnL.

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Strategies

Apr 18, 2026·7 min read

Jupiter Trigger & Recurring Orders as a Strategy Engine

A senior engineer's guide to building a jupiter limit order dca bot strategy on-chain, using Trigger and Recurring programs instead of a custom limit engine.

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Solana

Apr 18, 2026·4 min read

Solana DCA Bots: Automated Accumulation Done Right

Learn how on-chain DCA bots solve scheduling, slippage, and priority-fee management on Solana — and why that beats cloning a CEX feature.

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Infrastructure

Apr 18, 2026·7 min read

TON's Actor-Model Sharding vs EVM: Why TON Scales Differently

TON's async actor-model sharding vs EVM's atomic global state: what changes for cross-shard bot logic, and how to pick the right chain.

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Solana

Apr 17, 2026·6 min read

Missing Signer and Owner Checks: Solana's #1 Audit Finding

Solana's #1 audit finding: missing signer/owner checks in Anchor programs. Why linters miss it and the has_one constraint that fixes it.

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Hyperliquid

Apr 17, 2026·5 min read

Using Hyperliquid Sub-Accounts for Strategy Isolation and Risk Control

How to set up and manage sub-accounts on Hyperliquid to run multiple strategies in siloed margin environments, preventing cross-contamination of drawdowns and simplifying PnL attribution per strategy.

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Strategies

Apr 17, 2026·6 min read

Hyperliquid Spot-Perp Funding Loop Using On-Chain HYPE Spot

A Hyperliquid spot perp funding loop that hedges the perp short with native on-chain HYPE spot — one margin account, hourly funding, and the gotchas engineers hit.

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Infrastructure

Apr 17, 2026·5 min read

Handling Missed Slots and Reorgs in Solana Slot Subscriptions

Production bots that consume slotSubscribe or blockSubscribe feeds must handle missed slots, forks, and confirmed-to-finalized transitions without double-processing or gaps. This guide covers detection logic, gap-filling from RPC, and idempotent state updates.

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Strategies

Apr 17, 2026·7 min read

Jito vs Yellowstone gRPC: Which Data Pipeline for Solana Bots

Jito vs Yellowstone gRPC: bundles solve inclusion, Geyser streaming solves ingestion. Where each fits in a Solana bot pipeline, and when you need both.

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Strategies

Apr 16, 2026·6 min read

Funding Arbitrage Across Hyperliquid and Drift Perps

Hyperliquid Drift funding arbitrage: hold offsetting perps across two venues, collect the funding divergence, and manage the cross-chain and liquidation risk it hides.

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Smart Contracts

Apr 16, 2026·6 min read

Cross-Program Invocation Reentrancy Risk in Solana DeFi

CPI does not have EVM-style reentrancy, but recursive CPI chains and sysvar manipulation open distinct attack surfaces — this post maps every known CPI exploit pattern and shows the Anchor constraints that close them. Essential reading before you audit a program that calls AMM pools mid-instruction.

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