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Bot engineering, in depth.

Page 5 of 25 — how trading bots actually work on Solana, Hyperliquid and Polymarket.

Jun 16, 2026·7 min read

Squads Multisig for Solana Bot Treasuries: Security vs Speed

A practical guide to Squads multisig Solana bot treasuries: keep a fast hot signer for trades while a v4 multisig custodies profits without adding latency.

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Robinhood Chain

Jun 15, 2026·7 min read

Agentic Trading Accounts: Connecting AI Agents to Robinhood Chain

Robinhood's Agentic Accounts let AI connect to trading data and execution — here's what that means on a 24/7 EVM chain.

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Solana

Jun 15, 2026·5 min read

Token Launch Anti-Bot Measures on Solana and How Bots Adapt

Launchpads increasingly deploy delay pools, fee tiers, and blocklist logic to deter bots. This post catalogs common anti-bot patterns seen on Solana launchpads and the countermeasures sophisticated sniper bots employ.

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Solana

Jun 15, 2026·6 min read

Firedancer vs Agave: Solana's Validator Client Showdown

Firedancer vs Agave validator: tile architecture, throughput claims, and what multi-client consensus on Solana actually means for bots and infra.

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Solana

Jun 15, 2026·7 min read

Compressed NFT Sniping on Solana: Bots and the Bubblegum Program

A compressed NFT sniper bot on Solana must fetch Merkle proofs and race Bubblegum mints. Here's how state compression works and where cNFT snipers actually win.

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Hyperliquid

Jun 15, 2026·7 min read

TWAP vs Iceberg Orders on Hyperliquid: Best for Large Blocks

Dumping a large perp position through the Hyperliquid order book at once causes severe slippage — TWAP and iceberg strategies chop execution into child orders to minimize market impact, but each has different optimal slice sizes and interval logic. We show backtested slippage comparisons for BTC-PERP and SOL-PERP at notional sizes from $250k to $5m.

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Smart Contracts

Jun 14, 2026·6 min read

Tact vs FunC: Which Is Safer to Audit on TON?

Tact vs FunC security compared: which TON contract language cuts audit bug surface, and which one just moves the risk to the compiler.

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Solana

Jun 14, 2026·6 min read

Jito Bundles vs Priority Fees: What Actually Stops Solana MEV

Priority fees and Jito bundles solve different problems on Solana. Here's the mechanical breakdown and which one your trading bot actually needs.

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Solana

Jun 13, 2026·6 min read

DFlow and Order Flow Auctions on Solana: Should Bots Route There?

A trading engineer's take on the DFlow order flow auction on Solana: how conditional liquidity works, and whether searcher and aggregator bots gain or lose edge routing there.

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Polymarket

Jun 13, 2026·5 min read

How Polymarket Resolves Markets: UMA Oracle Mechanics Explained

A detailed look at how Polymarket uses the UMA Optimistic Oracle for market resolution — the dispute window, bond requirements, escalation to DVM voting, and common edge cases that cause resolution delays.

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Solana

Jun 13, 2026·6 min read

Yellowstone gRPC Explained: Real-Time Solana Data Without Polling

Yellowstone gRPC streams Solana account and transaction updates in real time via Geyser plugins, cutting the latency that kills polling-based bots.

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Solana

Jun 12, 2026·6 min read

Hiring a Solana Anchor Smart Contract Developer: Rates and Vetting

Practical guide to hire a Solana Anchor developer: real 2026 rates, a take-home that exposes fakes, the exact constraint bugs to look for, and audit-readiness.

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Solana

Jun 12, 2026·6 min read

Meteora DLMM vs Raydium CLMM: Which Liquidity Model Wins

Meteora DLMM vs Raydium CLMM compared: bin-based zero-slippage pricing versus tick-based concentrated liquidity, and which wins for Solana LPs and MM bots.

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Comparisons

Jun 11, 2026·6 min read

Manual Audit vs Automated Scanner: What Tools Actually Catch

Manual audit vs automated scanner for smart contracts: what Slither and Echidna catch, what only a human auditor finds, and when to use each.

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Hyperliquid

Jun 11, 2026·6 min read

Hyperliquid API Trading Bot: Python & Rust Setup Guide

Build a Hyperliquid API trading bot in Python or Rust: SDK setup, EIP-712 order signing, nonce management and rate limits for a live perps bot.

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Robinhood Chain

Jun 11, 2026·7 min read

What Is Robinhood Chain? The Arbitrum L2 for Tokenized Stocks

What is Robinhood Chain? A look at the Arbitrum L2 behind tokenized stocks, its permissionless design, and mainnet mechanics.

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Solana

Jun 11, 2026·6 min read

How Solana's Sealevel Runtime Executes Transactions in Parallel

Wrote a 1,300-word explainer on Solana's Sealevel parallel execution — account-level locking mechanics, a two-part Rust worked example (global vs. sharded counter), and design implications, with required internal links woven in and verified against the AI-tell/word-count/link constraints.

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Hyperliquid

Jun 10, 2026·6 min read

Trading the HLP Vault: How Hyperliquid's Liquidity Provider Works

The Hyperliquid HLP vault earns from liquidations, maker fills and fees. Here's how it works, when depositing beats your own maker, and how to model drawdown.

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Solana

Jun 10, 2026·5 min read

Solana Transaction Retry Logic and Compute Unit Fee Strategy

Dropped transactions cost opportunity on Solana. Learn how to implement exponential back-off retries, dynamic compute-unit-limit estimation, and priority-fee escalation to keep your bot competitive in congested slots.

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Solana

Jun 9, 2026·6 min read

Token-2022 vs SPL Token: Which Standard Fits Your Project

Token-2022 vs SPL Token: when transfer hooks, confidential transfers, and fee extensions are worth the compatibility tax, and when they aren't.

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Hyperliquid

Jun 9, 2026·6 min read

Hyperliquid Funding Rate Arbitrage vs Binance & Bybit

Hyperliquid funding rate arbitrage: a cross-venue delta-neutral playbook for capturing funding spreads vs Binance and Bybit, with hedge sizing and settlement timing.

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Polymarket

Jun 9, 2026·5 min read

Polymarket Polygon Deposits and Withdrawals: Gas Optimization Tips

A practical guide to funding a Polymarket account via Polygon bridge or direct USDC transfer, choosing the right gas price tier, and batching withdrawals to minimize costs for high-frequency traders.

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Comparisons

Jun 9, 2026·6 min read

FunC vs Tact: Which TON Language Is Easier to Audit

FunC vs Tact security audit: comparing bounce handling, gas fee mistakes, and message-flow bugs to see which TON language cuts audit findings and turnaround.

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Solana

Jun 8, 2026·5 min read

Orca Whirlpool Tick Ranges and How Bots Snipe New Positions

Orca's concentrated liquidity Whirlpool pools create predictable initial tick ranges on launch. This post dissects the pool initialization instruction and shows how bots size entries relative to the initial price range.

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