Blog · page 23

Bot engineering, in depth.

Page 23 of 25 — how trading bots actually work on Solana, Hyperliquid and Polymarket.

Dec 4, 2025·5 min read

Triton One RPC Pool vs Self-Hosted Node: Which Should You Choose?

Triton's shared pool delivers impressive uptime SLAs and global PoPs but introduces shared-queue jitter under network stress — we compare real throughput, cost per request, and operational burden against a self-managed bare-metal node for a 50 rps trading workload.

Dec 2, 2025·5 min read

MEV in Polymarket's AMM: Liquidity Pool Arbitrage and Mispricing Capture

Polymarket's CLOB and AMM hybrid creates exploitable mispricings when news breaks faster than market makers can update quotes. This article explains how to identify stale liquidity, build the arbitrage transaction, and manage the on-chain execution on Polygon.

Dec 1, 2025·4 min read

Hire a Solana Bot Developer: What to Vet Before You Pay

A concrete checklist for traders and founders on vetting on-chain proof-of-work, latency benchmarks, and custody guarantees before hiring a Solana bot developer.

Nov 30, 2025·4 min read

How Polymarket Resolution Works: UMA Oracles and Disputes

A technical breakdown of how Polymarket settles prediction markets via UMA's optimistic oracle, including the dispute window, bond mechanics, and what it means for bot strategies.

Nov 29, 2025·6 min read

Hyperliquid Builder Codes: Earn Rebates While Market Making

Builder codes let approved market makers recapture a share of taker fees on every fill — this guide walks through registration, fee tiers, and how to structure your quoting logic to maximize net rebate income. We compare rebate economics across three liquidity profiles to show when builder status flips your P&L positive.

Smart Contracts

Nov 28, 2025·5 min read

Anchor Account Discriminators and Type-Confusion Attack Vectors

Anchor prefixes every account with an 8-byte discriminator to prevent type confusion, but misuse of unchecked account deserialization can still bypass it. See exactly how this exploit works and how to enforce discriminator validation in every instruction handler.

Nov 26, 2025·5 min read

Cutting Order Latency on Hyperliquid WebSocket API to Sub-50ms

Hyperliquid's WebSocket feed delivers L2 order book updates and fills faster than its REST endpoints, but connection management, message parsing, and signing overhead still introduce hidden latency. This guide benchmarks Python vs Rust clients, shows how to pipeline order placement with book updates, and covers reconnect strategies that avoid missed fills.

Nov 26, 2025·5 min read

Handling Solana RPC Rate Limits (429s) Without Killing Your Bot

A practical guide to backoff strategies, request queuing, and multi-provider failover when your trading bot hits RPC rate limits mid-session. Covers per-method quotas on QuickNode, Helius, and Triton, plus how to size your plan to actual call volume.

Nov 26, 2025·4 min read

Polymarket CLOB API: Order Book Integration Guide

Step-by-step walkthrough of authenticating with Polymarket's Central Limit Order Book API, streaming live order book snapshots, and submitting limit orders programmatically using Python and the py-clob-client SDK.

Smart Contracts

Nov 22, 2025·5 min read

Best Rust Libraries for On-Chain Math in Solana Trading Programs

Floating-point is banned on-chain, so safe fixed-point arithmetic is essential for pricing, fee calculation, and PnL settlement. We benchmark fixed, uint, and spl-math against each other for precision and CU cost in real trading workloads.

Nov 22, 2025·5 min read

How Solana Sniper Bots Exploit Pump.fun Bonding Curves

A technical breakdown of how bonding curve price discovery on pump.fun creates exploitable entry windows, and how sniper bots detect graduation events and front-run the Raydium pool migration within milliseconds.

Nov 19, 2025·4 min read

Prediction Strategy Bots: Edge Modeling on Polymarket

Learn how automated bots extract probabilistic edge on Polymarket by modeling crowd-implied prices and applying Kelly sizing for disciplined position management.

Nov 17, 2025·5 min read

Sandwich Attacks on Solana: Mechanics and Defenses

How sandwich bots exploit Solana without a public mempool — and the concrete defenses every trader and protocol builder should deploy.

Nov 17, 2025·6 min read

Polymarket CLOB API: Order Types, Fill Logic & Execution

A hands-on walkthrough of Polymarket's Central Limit Order Book API covering limit, market, and GTC/GTD order types, how fills are matched on-chain via the CTF Exchange, and latency considerations for algorithmic traders.

Nov 16, 2025·8 min read

Crypto Trading Bot Glossary: 60 Terms Builders Must Know

Every critical term across sniping, MEV, market-making, and trading infrastructure — one definitive crypto trading bot glossary for builders.

Nov 15, 2025·5 min read

Jupiter V6 Routing Internals: How Arb Bots Use the API

An in-depth look at Jupiter's route-finding algorithm, quote caching, and slippage parameters, with practical guidance on integrating the V6 API into a high-frequency Solana arbitrage bot.

Nov 15, 2025·4 min read

Drawdown Controls and Circuit Breakers for Crypto Trading Bots

Defining maximum daily drawdown thresholds and wiring them to automated circuit breakers prevents a single bad session from destroying a strategy. This post covers the math, the trigger logic, and real implementation patterns.

Nov 15, 2025·4 min read

Kelly Criterion Position Sizing for Polymarket Binary Markets

How to apply fractional Kelly sizing to Polymarket YES/NO positions when you have an edge over the implied probability, including adjustments for illiquidity, correlated bets, and uncertain edge estimates.

Nov 14, 2025·6 min read

Sandwich Attacks on Solana: Raydium AMM vs Jupiter Aggregator

Jupiter's smart-routing and slippage guards behave very differently from raw Raydium pools under sandwich pressure. This post maps out where sandwiching remains viable on Solana in 2025, which pool types are hardest to sandwich, and why aggregators are not a complete shield.

Nov 13, 2025·5 min read

Trading Polymarket Election Markets: Liquidity and Timing Guide

How election prediction markets on Polymarket behave around key events — debate nights, polling releases, and election day — with data on spread widening, volume spikes, and optimal entry timing.

Nov 11, 2025·6 min read

Raydium AMM v4 vs CLMM: Which Pool Type to Bot in 2025

Raydium runs two distinct pool architectures and each demands a different bot strategy — constant-product v4 pools behave like classic Uniswap v2 while CLMMs concentrate liquidity in tick ranges. This guide maps out fee tiers, slippage profiles, and the routing differences that matter when you are executing hundreds of trades per minute.

Nov 10, 2025·5 min read

Sandwich Attacks on Solana vs Ethereum: Key Differences

Solana's parallel execution and lack of a traditional mempool change sandwich attack dynamics fundamentally compared to Ethereum. This article compares slot timing, frontrun feasibility, and why classic EVM sandwich bots fail on Solana.

Nov 9, 2025·4 min read

Hyperliquid vs dYdX for Bots: API, Liquidity and Fees

A technical breakdown of Hyperliquid vs dYdX for bot builders — covering WebSocket APIs, order-book depth, maker rebates, and latency trade-offs that actually move your P&L.

Nov 8, 2025·5 min read

Running a Polymarket Algo Fund: Infrastructure, Edge, and Compliance

A founder-level case study of what it takes to operate a systematic trading fund on Polymarket — server infrastructure, API key management, edge sourcing from information asymmetry, and navigating geo-restriction compliance.