Blog · page 25

Bot engineering, in depth.

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

Infrastructure
Oct 21, 2025·6 min read

Building a Multi-Provider RPC Failover Layer for Solana Bots

A single RPC endpoint is a single point of failure — we show how to build a weighted round-robin proxy in Rust that automatically routes around degraded providers, with health-check intervals tuned for HFT tolerances.

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Comparisons
Oct 21, 2025·5 min read

Solana vs Hyperliquid for HFT Bots: Latency & Fill Rate

A side-by-side breakdown of block time, mempool access, and real fill rates for high-frequency trading bots on Solana versus Hyperliquid's off-chain order book. We run the numbers so you can pick the right venue before you write a line of code.

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MEV
Oct 20, 2025·5 min read

Cross-DEX Arbitrage on Solana: Jupiter Routing vs Manual Path Building

Jupiter aggregates routes efficiently for retail but exposes predictable execution patterns that sophisticated searchers exploit. This article contrasts Jupiter-based routing with custom path-finding for cross-DEX arbitrage and where each approach wins.

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Hyperliquid
Oct 18, 2025·6 min read

Funding Rate Arb: Hyperliquid vs Binance and Bybit Compared

Persistent funding divergence between Hyperliquid and centralized venues like Binance Futures or Bybit creates arb opportunities that can be harvested by holding opposing perp positions simultaneously. This analysis covers real eight-hour funding windows, transfer latency via cross-chain bridges, and net carry after fees for BTC, ETH, and SOL pairs.

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Solana
Oct 17, 2025·6 min read

Jupiter v6 Routing API: Getting Best Execution Inside a Bot

Jupiter v6 introduced versioned transaction support, dynamic slippage, and platform fees — all of which change how you wire a bot to the aggregator. This tutorial shows how to call the Quote and Swap endpoints, parse route plans across Orca, Raydium, and Meteora, and handle failed transactions without burning compute budget.

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Risk
Oct 17, 2025·6 min read

Build a Rolling Drawdown Circuit Breaker for Crypto Bots in Python

Implements a real-time equity-curve monitor in Python that calculates 1-hour and 24-hour rolling drawdown, trips a circuit breaker at configurable thresholds, and sends a PagerDuty alert before flattening all open positions.

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Risk
Oct 16, 2025·5 min read

Setting Position Limits and Exposure Caps on Hyperliquid

Uncapped exposure is how HFT bots blow up accounts overnight. Learn how to enforce per-asset position limits and total portfolio exposure caps using Hyperliquid's API and on-chain margin accounting.

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Polymarket
Oct 16, 2025·5 min read

Event-Driven News Trading on Polymarket with API Automation

How to wire a news feed — Reuters, NewsAPI, or Telegram channels — into a Polymarket trading bot that detects resolution-relevant events and fires limit orders within seconds of a headline dropping.

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Smart Contracts
Oct 14, 2025·5 min read

Building Anchor PDA Vaults for Solana Trading Bots

Learn how to design and deploy a Program Derived Address vault using Anchor so your HFT bot can custody funds trustlessly on-chain. Covers seed derivation, bump canonicalization, and CPI-safe withdraw guards.

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MEV
Oct 14, 2025·7 min read

Backrunning Polymarket Resolution Events: Timing and Profitability

When Polymarket markets resolve, liquidity shifts predictably across correlated prediction markets and DeFi venues. This article details how to backrun resolution events with atomic transactions and what infrastructure latency requirements actually matter.

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Strategies
Oct 11, 2025·5 min read

True Cost of Running a Solana HFT Bot: RPC & Infra Breakdown

A frank breakdown of monthly spend across dedicated validator RPC nodes, Yellowstone gRPC streams, Jito tip budgets, and co-location fees — with real figures from a live market-making deployment — to help founders decide whether to self-host or use a managed provider at their current PnL level.

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Polymarket
Oct 10, 2025·5 min read

Polymarket Conditional Token Framework: A Technical Deep Dive

Polymarket's positions are ERC-1155 conditional tokens minted via Gnosis's CTF contract on Polygon. This deep dive explains how conditions, partitions, and the CTF Exchange contract underpin every trade, resolution, and redemption on the platform.

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Infrastructure
Oct 7, 2025·5 min read

Solana RPC Latency Compared: QuickNode vs Helius vs Triton

We benchmark p50/p99 response times across the top Solana RPC providers under real trading load, covering getAccountInfo, getProgramAccounts, and sendTransaction endpoints. Learn which provider wins for latency-sensitive MEV and HFT strategies.

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