Blog · page 21

Bot engineering, in depth.

Page 21 of 25 — how trading bots actually work on Solana, Hyperliquid and Polymarket.

Jan 16, 2026·5 min read

Compute Unit Budgeting for Solana HFT Programs

Every microsecond of compute you waste is a slot you lose. This guide breaks down how to request, measure, and trim compute units in Rust programs so your on-chain logic fits inside the 1.4 M CU limit without triggering ComputeBudgetExceeded errors.

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Infrastructure

Jan 14, 2026·5 min read

Skipping Preflight Simulation on Solana: Speed vs Safety Tradeoffs

Disabling preflight checks removes one RPC round-trip and can shave 20–80 ms off your submission latency, but exposes your bot to fee-account errors and stale blockhash reverts — we quantify the failure rates and show when the tradeoff pays off.

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Polymarket

Jan 14, 2026·4 min read

Polymarket Spread Bots: Locking the YES+NO Mispricing

When Polymarket YES and NO prices drift off 100 cents, a spread bot can capture the gap near-risklessly — here is how to build one that actually executes.

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Risk

Jan 13, 2026·5 min read

Incident Response Runbook for a Live Crypto Trading Bot Outage

When a bot stops filling orders at 3 AM, every minute of confusion costs money. This runbook covers triage steps, rollback procedures, exchange contact escalations, and post-mortem templates for HFT bot incidents.

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Risk

Jan 12, 2026·5 min read

What Does It Cost to Hire a Risk Engineer for a Crypto Bot Studio?

Risk engineering for HFT bots sits at the intersection of quant finance and systems programming, making it one of the most expensive hires in the space. We break down market rates, scope of work, and when to outsource versus build in-house.

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Infrastructure

Jan 10, 2026·5 min read

Dedicated Solana RPC Node vs Shared Endpoint for HFT Bots

A cost-benefit breakdown of running your own Solana RPC node versus paying for a premium shared endpoint when you need sub-50ms transaction submission — with real hardware specs, monthly cost estimates, and measured latency deltas.

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Hyperliquid

Jan 10, 2026·5 min read

How to Capture Funding Rates on Hyperliquid Perps Profitably

A production engineer's guide to running delta-neutral funding-rate capture on Hyperliquid — covering the hourly funding mechanism, pair selection by historical yield, rebalancing triggers, and the real costs that determine whether the trade is worth running.

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Polymarket

Jan 9, 2026·6 min read

Is Polymarket Market Making Worth It? A Profitability Analysis

This commercial breakdown compares maker rebates, adverse selection costs, gas fees on Polygon, and typical spread yields to assess whether retail or institutional market makers can generate consistent alpha on Polymarket in 2025.

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MEV

Jan 9, 2026·6 min read

Jito Bundle Tips: What You Actually Pay for MEV Priority

A detailed cost breakdown of Jito tip markets in 2025 — how tip auctions work, median vs 99th-percentile tip sizes across block types, and how to model your all-in cost per bundle before deploying a searcher strategy on Solana.

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MEV

Jan 8, 2026·4 min read

MEV on Ethereum vs Solana: Mempools, Bundles and Auctions

How Flashbots PBS and Jito bundles create structurally different MEV extraction environments on Ethereum and Solana — and what that means for your bot strategy.

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Strategies

Jan 7, 2026·6 min read

TWAP vs VWAP Execution Algos on Solana AMMs Explained

Compares TWAP and VWAP slicing strategies when routing large orders through Orca and Raydium concentrated liquidity pools, where block-time variance and MEV exposure change the optimal approach versus CEX markets.

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Smart Contracts

Jan 6, 2026·6 min read

Hyperliquid L1 Vault Contract Architecture for Prop-Trading Funds

Hyperliquid exposes a native vault primitive where funds deposit collateral and allocate to a leader strategy — this article dissects the on-chain settlement flow, margin accounting, and the Rust-based HIP-1 token interaction layer so prop desks can decide whether a custom vault or a sub-account structure fits their risk model better.

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Solana

Jan 6, 2026·4 min read

Does Solana Have a Mempool? Shreds, Gulf Stream and Bot Edge

Solana has no mempool — but bots still get pre-confirmation signal. Here's exactly where that edge comes from and how to capture it.

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Polymarket

Jan 6, 2026·5 min read

Complementary-Outcome Arbitrage on Polymarket Explained

How to identify and execute risk-free arbitrage when the sum of YES prices across all complementary outcomes in a Polymarket binary event falls below $1.00, including slippage and gas cost calculations.

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Infrastructure

Jan 5, 2026·6 min read

Hyperliquid API Rate Limits: What They Are and How to Work Within Them

Hyperliquid enforces per-IP and per-account order rate limits that catch HFT bots off guard. We document every limit tier, show how to batch requests and manage WebSocket subscriptions, and outline the fastest failover path when you hit a 429.

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Comparisons

Jan 3, 2026·5 min read

Hire a Solana Bot Developer vs an Agency: Real Cost & Timeline

Freelance Solana bot developers quote $80–$200/hr while specialist agencies charge $15k–$60k per project — we detail what you actually get for each price point and which makes sense for a fund versus a founder.

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Comparisons

Jan 2, 2026·6 min read

Polymarket vs Competitors: ROI of Automated Market Bots

Compares fee structures, liquidity depth, and historical edge available to automated bots on Polymarket versus Manifold, Kalshi, and SX Bet. Helps founders decide where to deploy capital for the best risk-adjusted returns.

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Solana

Jan 1, 2026·4 min read

Detecting Pump.fun Graduation Events Before Raydium Migration

Pump.fun tokens graduate to Raydium only after hitting the 85 SOL bonding curve threshold. Learn how to monitor the migration program instructions on-chain and fire snipe orders in the same block as the migration.

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Infrastructure

Dec 31, 2025·6 min read

Indexing the Polymarket CLOB WebSocket Order Feed in Real Time

Polymarket's Central Limit Order Book pushes order events over WebSocket at high frequency — this tutorial shows how to build a persistent Postgres indexer with sub-second lag, handle reconnects, and backfill gaps using the REST snapshot endpoint.

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Comparisons

Dec 31, 2025·6 min read

Jito vs bloXroute for MEV Bundles on Solana: 2025 Guide

Head-to-head comparison of Jito and bloXroute bundle submission APIs for Solana bots, covering tip economics, bundle success rates, and latency trade-offs. Explains which infrastructure makes sense for sandwich protection versus bundle inclusion.

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Hyperliquid

Dec 30, 2025·7 min read

Liquidation Hunting on Hyperliquid: How Bots Profit from Cascades

When a highly leveraged position crosses its maintenance margin, Hyperliquid's liquidation engine places a market order that sophisticated bots front-run or fill against for edge — this post explains the on-chain mechanics, how to read the liquidations feed, and the legal and risk considerations of running a liquidation-taking strategy.

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Solana

Dec 29, 2025·5 min read

Solana RPC and Latency: Cutting Milliseconds Off Your Bot

How geo-located validators, gRPC Geyser streams, and staked connections shave critical milliseconds off your Solana trading bot's execution path.

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MEV

Dec 29, 2025·5 min read

Solana Priority Fees and Compute Units: MEV Searcher Optimization

Priority fees on Solana are priced per compute unit, not per transaction, making cost modeling non-trivial for complex MEV bundles. This guide covers how to minimize CU consumption while maintaining execution speed for competitive arbitrage.

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Strategies

Dec 28, 2025·7 min read

Kelly Criterion Parameter Tuning for Polymarket Bots

Explains how to calibrate fractional Kelly sizing for binary prediction markets on Polymarket, including edge estimation from historical resolution data, bet-sizing grid search, and drawdown constraints to avoid ruin.

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