Blog · page 19

Bot engineering, in depth.

Page 19 of 25 — how trading bots actually work on Solana, Hyperliquid and Polymarket.

Feb 26, 2026·5 min read

Hyperliquid HLP Vault: Real Returns, Real Risks Explained

An honest breakdown of the HLP liquidity-provider vault — how it earns fees, when it loses to informed flow, and how vault PnL correlates with market volatility. Essential reading before depositing capital as a passive LP.

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Hyperliquid

Feb 26, 2026·5 min read

Hyperliquid Vault Deposits, Withdrawals, and On-Chain Tax Tracking

Step-by-step on depositing and withdrawing from Hyperliquid vaults via USDC bridging, plus how to pull on-chain transaction data for cost-basis and PnL tracking using Koinly or a custom script against the Hyperliquid Info API.

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Polymarket

Feb 25, 2026·6 min read

Complementary-Outcome Arbitrage on Polymarket: How It Works

When YES + NO prices sum to less than $1 across a binary market, a risk-free spread exists. This guide explains how to detect, size, and execute complementary-outcome arbitrage on Polymarket using the CLOB API and UMA's CTF adapter.

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Polymarket

Feb 25, 2026·6 min read

Hiring a Polymarket Trading Bot Developer: What to Expect

A practical guide for funds and founders evaluating studios or freelancers for Polymarket automation — covering required skills (CLOB API, UMA resolution logic, conditional tokens), realistic timelines, and red flags in proposals.

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Polymarket

Feb 24, 2026·5 min read

Polymarket API Rate Limits, WebSocket Streaming, and Best Practices

Technical reference covering Polymarket CLOB API rate limit tiers, how to maintain a low-latency WebSocket connection for real-time order book updates, and reconnection strategies for production trading systems.

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MEV

Feb 24, 2026·5 min read

How to Build a Liquidation Bot on Hyperliquid in 2024

Hyperliquid's on-chain perpetuals engine triggers liquidations at predictable price levels, creating reliable MEV for well-positioned bots. This tutorial covers liquidation mechanics, risk engine timing, and the exact API calls needed to capture positions profitably.

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MEV

Feb 24, 2026·7 min read

Private Orderflow on Hyperliquid: How Vaults Win the Queue

Hyperliquid's L1 has no public mempool, but queue position and vault timing still create exploitable edges. We explain how private orderflow agreements and vault-level timing give certain market makers first-mover fills on large liquidation cascades.

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MEV

Feb 23, 2026·6 min read

Ethereum MEV vs Solana MEV: Architecture Differences That Matter

Flashbots' PBS model, account abstraction, and the Ethereum mempool create a fundamentally different MEV landscape than Solana's Jito-dominated, account-model runtime — this deep-dive maps every layer where strategies, tooling, and economics diverge so you can port knowledge across chains without expensive mistakes.

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Solana

Feb 20, 2026·5 min read

Solana Bundler Bots for Anti-Snipe Protection at Token Launch

Project founders use bundlers to atomically execute liquidity addition and initial buys in a single block, preventing sniper bots from front-running the pool creation on Raydium or Meteora. This article explains how bundled launches work from the issuer's perspective, which services offer this as a product, and what sniper bot operators do to adapt.

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Strategies

Feb 19, 2026·5 min read

Inventory Management Using Avellaneda-Stoikov On-Chain

Translates the classic Avellaneda-Stoikov continuous-time market-making model into discrete on-chain quote updates, with a worked Rust implementation for Hyperliquid. Discusses how to calibrate the risk-aversion parameter using realised volatility from a rolling 5-minute OHLCV window.

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Hyperliquid

Feb 18, 2026·5 min read

Liquidation Hunting on Hyperliquid: How It Works and How to Bot It

How to read Hyperliquid's open-interest and leverage maps to front-run cascading liquidations, and how to build a bot that enters positions just before a liquidation wick to capture the spread — with real risk controls for false-signal trades.

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Comparisons

Feb 18, 2026·5 min read

Hyperliquid vs dYdX for Market-Making Bots: Fee & Edge Analysis

Breaks down maker rebates, taker fees, funding rate mechanics, and API rate limits on Hyperliquid versus dYdX v4 to quantify which venue offers more edge per dollar of inventory deployed by an automated market maker.

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Solana

Feb 17, 2026·4 min read

Anti-Rug Bots for Solana: Auto-Sell Before the Drain

Learn how real-time mint-authority and LP-removal monitoring lets a solana anti rug bot exit your position automatically before a rug pull drains your capital.

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Solana

Feb 14, 2026·4 min read

Solana Grid Trading Bots: Profiting From Ranging Tokens

Learn how a Solana grid trading bot captures profits from ranging memecoins using dynamic grid resizing, Jito bundles, and on-chain kill-switches.

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Strategies

Feb 13, 2026·6 min read

Walk-Forward Optimisation to Avoid Crypto Strategy Overfitting

Implements an anchored walk-forward test harness in Python for crypto algo strategies, demonstrating how standard in-sample parameter search inflates Sharpe by 2-3x and how anchored windows restore out-of-sample integrity.

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Hyperliquid

Feb 13, 2026·4 min read

TWAP Execution on Hyperliquid: Filling Size Without Slippage

Learn how a hyperliquid twap bot slices large positions across Hyperliquid's CLOB to minimise slippage, manage funding exposure, and protect execution with live kill-switches.

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Risk

Feb 13, 2026·6 min read

Is It Worth Hiring a Dedicated Risk Engineer for a Crypto HFT Fund?

Breaks down what a risk engineer actually does day-to-day for a Solana or Hyperliquid HFT operation — pre-trade checks, live monitoring, post-trade attribution — and compares the cost and coverage against off-the-shelf risk middleware like Architect or custom Python tooling.

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Infrastructure

Feb 11, 2026·5 min read

Monitoring a Solana Trading Bot with Prometheus and Grafana

How to instrument a TypeScript or Rust trading bot to emit slot lag, RPC error rates, fill latency, and PnL into Prometheus — plus Grafana dashboards and alert rules that catch degraded RPC health and missed fills before they cost you real money.

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Solana

Feb 11, 2026·6 min read

Solana Transaction Landing: Jito Bundles vs Raw Spam Compared

Getting a transaction confirmed during high-traffic moments on Solana comes down to either paying Jito's block-engine tip or carpet-bombing validators with duplicates — and the cost-benefit calculus has shifted dramatically since local fee markets launched. We benchmark both approaches across five volatility scenarios and show when each strategy wins.

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MEV

Feb 11, 2026·5 min read

How to Size Jito Tips for Maximum Profitable Bundle Inclusion

Paying too little means bundle rejection; paying too much destroys margins. We model the tip auction empirically and derive a dynamic sizing formula based on opportunity size, block utilization, and competing searcher behavior.

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Strategies

Feb 10, 2026·6 min read

Best Tools for Building a Solana HFT Bot in 2025

Opinionated stack review covering Rust vs TypeScript SDKs, Jito bundles for MEV protection, Yellowstone for data, and Anchor vs manual CPI for on-chain interaction — with latency and developer-experience trade-offs for each choice.

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Risk

Feb 8, 2026·7 min read

Slippage Protection Techniques for Polymarket AMM Trading Bots

Explains how Polymarket's CLOB and AMM liquidity pools create adverse-fill risk, demonstrates how to set dynamic max-slippage parameters based on order-book depth snapshots, and shows how to abort or retry orders when realized slippage exceeds tolerance.

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Hyperliquid

Feb 8, 2026·5 min read

HLP Vault Deep Dive: Funding Capture Mechanics Explained

The HLP vault earns yield from both passive LP fees and directional funding when the vault holds offsetting perp exposure — here we dissect exactly how funding accrues to vault depositors versus active traders. You will learn when vault APY beats running your own funding-rate arbitrage desk on Hyperliquid.

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Infrastructure

Feb 8, 2026·6 min read

Yellowstone gRPC Geyser Plugin: Complete Setup Tutorial

Step-by-step guide to compiling, deploying, and subscribing to Yellowstone's gRPC geyser plugin on a Solana validator or RPC node. Covers TLS config, slot update filters, and account change subscriptions for sub-millisecond feed delivery.

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