Blog · page 25

Bot engineering, in depth.

Page 25 of 26 — how trading bots actually work on Solana, Hyperliquid and Polymarket.

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.

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Solana

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.

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Risk

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.

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Polymarket

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.

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MEV

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.

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Polymarket

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.

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Solana

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.

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MEV

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.

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Comparisons

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.

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Polymarket

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.

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Smart Contracts

Nov 8, 2025·6 min read

Anchor PDA Design Patterns for HFT Settlement Vaults

Walk through battle-tested PDA seed schemes for on-chain vaults that settle high-frequency trades on Solana — covering signer authority, nonce accounts, and rent-exemption sizing. Learn how layout mistakes silently inflate compute costs and how to benchmark with solana-program-test.

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Comparisons

Nov 8, 2025·6 min read

Solana vs Hyperliquid for HFT Bots: Latency & Fill Rates

A side-by-side benchmark of order execution latency, fill rates, and MEV exposure on Solana DEXs versus Hyperliquid's native order book. Covers which venue wins for market-making, momentum, and statistical arbitrage strategies in 2025.

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Polymarket

Nov 7, 2025·5 min read

Polymarket API Authentication in Python: Wallet and CLOB Setup

Configure Polymarket CLOB authentication in Python: signer types, API credentials, EIP-712 signatures and a safe first order using py-clob-client.

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Guides

Nov 6, 2025·4 min read

Trading Bot Risk Management: Kill-Switches That Save Capital

Circuit-breakers, drawdown caps, and dead-man switches aren't optional — they're the difference between a controlled loss and a blown account.

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Risk

Nov 6, 2025·6 min read

Private Key Management for Solana Bots: HSM vs Vault vs Env Vars

Compares hardware security modules (YubiHSM 2), HashiCorp Vault transit secrets, and plaintext env vars for storing Solana signer keys, covering operational cost, latency impact on HFT throughput, and minimum-viable key rotation procedures.

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Risk

Nov 5, 2025·7 min read

Incident Response Playbook for Crypto Trading Bot Failures

A concrete, role-by-role runbook covering the first 15 minutes after a bot goes rogue: who kills positions, how to audit the Solana or Hyperliquid trade history, what to preserve for post-mortem, and how to communicate with counterparties or LPs.

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Hyperliquid

Nov 2, 2025·6 min read

Hyperliquid WebSocket API Guide: Reliable Low-Latency Bot Setup

Build a production Hyperliquid WebSocket client for books, trades and user events with heartbeats, reconnects, snapshot recovery and latency monitoring.

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Polymarket

Nov 2, 2025·4 min read

News-Driven Polymarket Bots: Trading Resolution Catalysts

How real-time news feeds and low-latency execution let polymarket news trading bots reprice prediction markets before manual traders can react.

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Polymarket

Nov 1, 2025·5 min read

Polymarket Market-Making Bots: Quoting Both Sides of YES/NO

A technical breakdown of how market-making bots quote binary outcome shares on Polymarket's CLOB, manage inventory skew, and protect P&L through resolution.

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Infrastructure

Nov 1, 2025·5 min read

Hiring a Solana Infrastructure Engineer: What to Actually Look For

Most candidates can configure an RPC node but few understand shred propagation, geyser plugin internals, or NUMA-aware thread pinning — we outline the interview signals, take-home task design, and market-rate ranges for trading-focused infra engineers in 2025.

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Comparisons

Oct 31, 2025·5 min read

Hire a Freelancer vs Agency to Build Your Trading Bot: Pros & Cons

Compares engagement models, risk profiles, IP ownership clauses, and typical cost ranges when hiring a freelance quant developer versus a specialist agency like TierZero for crypto trading bot development. Includes questions to ask before signing any contract.

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Comparisons

Oct 30, 2025·4 min read

CEX vs DEX Arbitrage Bots: Where the Real Edge Lives

A technical breakdown of CEX vs DEX arbitrage bots — custody risk, withdrawal latency, on-chain atomicity, and where sustainable edge actually comes from.

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Hyperliquid

Oct 29, 2025·5 min read

Hyperliquid Builder Codes and API Rate Limits: What You Need to Know

How Hyperliquid builder codes attribute volume and unlock fee rebates, alongside the hard API rate limits that market makers and HFT shops must design around to avoid throttling or bans.

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Solana

Oct 28, 2025·4 min read

Solana DEX Arbitrage Bots: Routing Across Raydium and Orca

How multi-hop route discovery and atomic same-block execution turn Solana AMM price gaps into consistent edge for a solana arbitrage bot.

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