Blog · page 23

Bot engineering, in depth.

Page 23 of 26 — how trading bots actually work on Solana, Hyperliquid and Polymarket.

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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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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Solana

Dec 27, 2025·3 min read

Telegram Trading Bots on Solana: UX vs Custom Infra

Off-the-shelf Telegram bots trade speed for custody risk and fee drag — here is what custom Solana infra actually buys you.

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MEV

Dec 27, 2025·5 min read

Hiring an MEV Bot Developer: Skills, Red Flags, and Interview Questions

Most developers who claim MEV expertise have only surface-level exposure to sandwiching or basic arbitrage. This guide outlines what genuine Solana and Hyperliquid MEV competence looks like, what to pay, and the technical questions that separate real searchers from pretenders.

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Guides

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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Strategies

Dec 26, 2025·5 min read

Latency Arb on Solana: Jito Bundles vs Raw RPC Sends

Comparing median time-to-inclusion for Jito bundle submission versus direct validator RPC calls across three Solana clusters, with real latency data. When tipping Jito validators pays off — and when raw RPC wins on spread-capture strategies.

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MEV

Dec 25, 2025·5 min read

Atomic Arbitrage Across Raydium and Orca: A Searcher's Playbook

Step-by-step guide to building and executing atomic arbitrage between Raydium and Orca pools in a single Solana transaction. Covers account locking, route discovery, and how to avoid failed transaction fees eating profit.

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Smart Contracts

Dec 24, 2025·5 min read

How Much Does a Solana Program Security Audit Cost in 2025?

Price ranges from OtterSec, Neodyme, Trail of Bits, and Halborn for Anchor programs vary by line count, CPI complexity, and turnaround — this breakdown gives founders a realistic budget framework and a checklist to reduce scope (and bill) before engaging an auditor. Includes red flags that add 30–50 % to quoted hours.

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Strategies

Dec 23, 2025·5 min read

Backtesting a Solana HFT Bot with Tardis Machine Data

Step-by-step guide to replaying Solana DEX order-book snapshots and trade ticks in Tardis Machine, measuring fill rates, slippage, and PnL before touching live capital — and how to avoid look-ahead bias in tick-level simulations.

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Comparisons

Dec 22, 2025·6 min read

Dedicated RPC vs Shared RPC for Solana Bots: Is It Worth the Cost?

A $300/month dedicated Solana RPC node versus a $29 shared plan sounds obvious, but the ROI depends entirely on your transaction volume and latency sensitivity. We break down the math for serious bot operators.

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Hyperliquid

Dec 22, 2025·5 min read

Hyperliquid Risk Limits: Max Position Sizes and How to Calculate Them

Hyperliquid's per-asset and portfolio-level risk limits, how max leverage tiers scale with notional size, and how to build a pre-trade risk calculator that prevents order rejection at the API level.

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Infrastructure

Dec 21, 2025·5 min read

Building RPC Failover Architecture for Solana Trading Bots

A production walkthrough of multi-provider active-passive failover for Solana trading bots — covering health checks, circuit breakers, and automatic re-routing with HAProxy and a custom health-check sidecar so a single RPC outage never halts your strategy.

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Risk

Dec 20, 2025·4 min read

Best Open-Source Risk Management Libraries for Solana Trading Bots

From position sizing utilities to on-chain transaction simulation, a handful of battle-tested libraries handle the heavy lifting so you are not reinventing drawdown math. We review the top options compatible with Anchor and raw Solana web3.js.

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Solana

Dec 19, 2025·6 min read

Solana Private Mempool via Jito Block Engine: Bundle Submission Deep Dive

Unlike Ethereum, Solana has no public mempool, but Jito's block engine creates a private pre-confirmation ordering layer where bundles compete for inclusion during a specific validator's leader slot. This deep dive explains how the searcher API works, how bundles are ordered within a slot, and how to structure multi-transaction atomic sequences for snipe-then-dump patterns.

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Infrastructure

Dec 16, 2025·5 min read

Hyperliquid API Latency: REST vs WebSocket for Order Management

Benchmarks Hyperliquid's REST and WebSocket order-management endpoints for place, cancel, and amend operations under varying network conditions. Provides guidance on which interface to use for market making versus directional strategies.

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