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MEV deep-dives.

53 articles on MEV — how it works under the hood and how we build it.

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Jul 31, 2026·1 min read

Base MEV and Arbitrage Bot Architecture in 2026

A realistic Base arbitrage architecture covering pending data, simulation, private routing and realized edge.

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Jun 7, 2026·4 min read

Is MEV Searching Worth It on Solana? A 2024 Cost-Profit Analysis

Between Jito tips, compute costs, failed transactions, and infrastructure overhead, MEV on Solana is not free money. We break down real cost structures, competitive intensity by strategy type, and what edge a new searcher realistically needs to be profitable.

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Jun 5, 2026·7 min read

Atomic Arbitrage Between Drift CLOB and AMMs on Solana

Atomic arb across Drift Protocol's on-chain CLOB and Orca/Raydium AMMs requires composing instructions in a single transaction to avoid leg risk. This tutorial covers the account structure, compute budget tuning, and latency thresholds that determine whether a cross-venue arb is worth chasing.

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May 30, 2026·5 min read

Private Orderflow on Hyperliquid: What Gives Market Makers an Edge

Hyperliquid's HLP vault and validator structure create private orderflow advantages that most retail traders never see. This piece explains how to position a market-making operation to capture this flow before it hits the public book.

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May 30, 2026·6 min read

Solana Priority Fees: Compute Unit Math for MEV Transactions

Setting compute unit limits and micro-lamport fee prices incorrectly is the single biggest reason searcher transactions fail to land. This tutorial walks through the exact calculation — simulate compute units, set a dynamic fee based on recent percentile data, and cap total lamport spend without sacrificing inclusion probability.

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May 20, 2026·6 min read

Solana Searcher Infrastructure: Colocation, RPCs and Slot Leaders

Winning Jito bundles consistently comes down to infrastructure as much as strategy — this guide covers choosing RPC providers, colocating near Jito block engine endpoints, tracking the slot-leader schedule to pre-route bundles, and the realistic latency budget a competitive searcher needs in 2025.

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May 13, 2026·6 min read

Yellowstone gRPC vs Geyser: Streaming Solana Mempool for MEV

Wiring Yellowstone gRPC Solana mempool subscriptions to catch MEV before block inclusion — Geyser vs polling RPC, with real latency and cost tradeoffs.

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May 11, 2026·6 min read

JIT Liquidity on Meteora DLMM: How MEV Bots Front Swaps

A senior engineer's guide to Meteora DLMM JIT liquidity MEV: seeding single-sided bins one slot before a whale swap to capture fees, and how to build the bot.

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May 10, 2026·6 min read

Jito ShredStream Explained: Sub-Slot Data for Solana Searchers

Jito ShredStream Solana delivers shreds before block confirmation, cutting opportunity-detection latency for searchers. How it beats Geyser feeds, and where it bites.

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May 9, 2026·6 min read

MEV Protection RPCs on Solana: Helius, Temporal & Jito Compared

Compare Solana MEV protection RPCs: Helius Sender, Temporal Nozomi and Jito bundles benchmarked on landing rate, tips and revert protection for sandwich-free swaps.

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May 8, 2026·7 min read

Flashbots MEV-Share on EVM: Building an Orderflow Backrunner

Flashbots MEV-Share backrunning explained: subscribe to hints, build backrun bundles that split profit with users, and how it differs from dark private orderflow.

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May 7, 2026·6 min read

Backrunning Hyperliquid Oracle Updates: Is the Edge Real?

Does a hyperliquid oracle update MEV edge actually exist? We break down mark-price mechanics, L1 ordering, and whether liquidation cascades are truly backrunnable.

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May 6, 2026·6 min read

Jito Bundles vs Flashbots Bundles: MEV Auctions Compared

Jito bundles vs Flashbots: how Solana's block-engine tip auction and Ethereum's PBS/MEV-Boost relay differ, and what it means for MEV bot builders.

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May 6, 2026·6 min read

CEX-DEX Arbitrage Latency: Beating Solana MEV Searchers

How CEX-DEX arbitrage Solana latency really works: colocated feeds, Jito bundle tips and inventory hedging — and where a funded searcher wins the race.

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May 5, 2026·6 min read

How Jito's Block Engine Auction Actually Works

Jito block engine explained: how bundle auctions, tip pricing, and validator relayers decide what lands in the next Solana slot.

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May 5, 2026·6 min read

Jupiter Swap Guard & Jito Integration: How Slippage Gets Protected

How Jupiter combines dynamic slippage and Jito bundles for jupiter mev protection jito — and what bot builders should replicate when quoting client swaps.

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May 4, 2026·6 min read

Yellowstone gRPC vs Standard Solana RPC for MEV Bots

Yellowstone gRPC vs RPC for Solana MEV bots: real latency benchmarks, Geyser mechanics, failover tradeoffs, and when polling still wins.

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May 4, 2026·7 min read

Designing MEV-Resistant AMMs: FBA, MEV Taxes & Threshold Encryption

A smart-contract deep-dive on MEV resistant AMM design: frequent batch auctions, application-level MEV taxes, and encrypted mempools, with real tradeoffs.

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May 3, 2026·7 min read

Priority Fee Spam Wars: Modeling Solana Landing Rates for Bots

A data-driven model of Solana priority fee landing rate under congestion — logistic bid curves, QUIC SWQoS, and a bidding policy that beats paying blindly more.

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May 3, 2026·6 min read

How Hyperliquid's HLP Vault Shapes MEV Opportunities

How the HLP vault's auto-liquidation and market-making shape (and shrink) liquidation and funding-rate MEV on Hyperliquid's on-chain order book.

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May 1, 2026·6 min read

Jupiter vs Raydium Routing: Where MEV Risk Hides

Jupiter's multi-hop routing beats Raydium on price but widens MEV surface. Here's where sandwich risk actually hides in jupiter vs raydium mev.

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Apr 30, 2026·6 min read

Polymarket's CLOB and UMA Oracle: An Arb Bot's View

How Polymarket's off-chain CLOB and UMA's optimistic oracle create arb windows an AMM-arb bot's math can't see, with a worked EV example.

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Apr 29, 2026·6 min read

What Does It Cost to Hire a Solana MEV Bot Developer?

Real Solana MEV bot developer costs: $18K–$60K for a custom Jito-integrated build vs. $200–$2K scripts, broken down by component and timeline.

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Apr 28, 2026·6 min read

Firedancer's Impact on Solana's MEV Landscape

How Firedancer's tile architecture and faster Turbine propagation reshape Solana MEV latency, sigverify throughput, and searcher bundle timing.

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Apr 27, 2026·6 min read

Why TON's Mempool-Less Design Kills Classic MEV

TON has no visible mempool — its async, sharded message-passing model breaks classic frontrunning and sandwich MEV. Here's why, with a worked example.

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Apr 25, 2026·6 min read

Searcher Infrastructure for Solana: Colocation, RPC, and Latency

Winning MEV on Solana is as much a hardware race as a strategy game. We compare colocation options near Solana validators, dedicated RPC node setups, and gRPC Yellowstone stream configurations that top searchers use to shave milliseconds.

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Mar 20, 2026·5 min read

Is MEV Still Worth It on Solana in 2025? ROI Breakdown

With Jito tip competition intensifying and validator concentration rising, margins for new Solana searchers have compressed significantly. This commercial analysis covers realistic monthly P&L for three strategy tiers — retail, semi-pro, and fund-grade — including infra costs, tip spend, and the capital required to be competitive.

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Mar 12, 2026·4 min read

DeFi Liquidation Bots: Earning the Liquidation Bonus

Learn how health-factor monitoring and atomic liquidate-and-swap turn DeFi liquidations into a repeatable MEV income stream on Solana and beyond.

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Mar 10, 2026·5 min read

How Jito's Block Engine and Tip Distribution Actually Work

Jito's architecture routes bundles through a centralized block engine, creating specific latency and trust trade-offs that every serious Solana searcher must understand. We walk through the full flow from bundle submission to validator tip settlement and what can go wrong.

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Mar 8, 2026·5 min read

Best MEV Tools and Frameworks for Solana Searchers in 2024

A curated comparison of open-source and commercial tooling for Solana MEV: Jito client libraries, Yellowstone gRPC, custom transaction builders, and simulation environments. Rated by latency overhead, maintenance activity, and searcher community adoption.

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Mar 8, 2026·4 min read

Jito Bundles on Solana: Atomic Execution and Tipping

How Jito bundles work on Solana — atomicity guarantees, tip auctions, and why they are the core primitive behind competitive MEV strategies.

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Mar 7, 2026·6 min read

Liquidation Bots: Hyperliquid Perps vs Aave on Ethereum Compared

Hyperliquid's on-chain liquidation engine clears positions differently from Aave's oracle-triggered model on Ethereum — gas costs, competition density, and margin of safety thresholds all diverge sharply. We benchmark profitability, capital requirements, and infrastructure complexity side-by-side so you can decide where to deploy a liquidation bot in 2025.

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Feb 24, 2026·5 min read

How to Build a Liquidation Bot on Hyperliquid in 2024

Hyperliquid's on-chain perpetuals engine triggers liquidations at predictable price levels, creating reliable MEV for well-positioned bots. This tutorial covers liquidation mechanics, risk engine timing, and the exact API calls needed to capture positions profitably.

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Feb 24, 2026·7 min read

Private Orderflow on Hyperliquid: How Vaults Win the Queue

Hyperliquid's L1 has no public mempool, but queue position and vault timing still create exploitable edges. We explain how private orderflow agreements and vault-level timing give certain market makers first-mover fills on large liquidation cascades.

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Feb 23, 2026·6 min read

Ethereum MEV vs Solana MEV: Architecture Differences That Matter

Flashbots' PBS model, account abstraction, and the Ethereum mempool create a fundamentally different MEV landscape than Solana's Jito-dominated, account-model runtime — this deep-dive maps every layer where strategies, tooling, and economics diverge so you can port knowledge across chains without expensive mistakes.

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Feb 11, 2026·5 min read

How to Size Jito Tips for Maximum Profitable Bundle Inclusion

Paying too little means bundle rejection; paying too much destroys margins. We model the tip auction empirically and derive a dynamic sizing formula based on opportunity size, block utilization, and competing searcher behavior.

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Feb 7, 2026·7 min read

Backrunning Polymarket Resolutions: MEV on Prediction Markets

When a Polymarket market resolves, a short window exists to backrun the resulting on-chain settlement and arbitrage mispriced related markets before the broader book reprices. This article dissects the mechanics, latency requirements, and Polygon gas dynamics that determine capture rate.

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Feb 7, 2026·5 min read

Jito Bundles on Solana: How MEV Searchers Win Blocks

A practical breakdown of how Jito bundles work, how tip auctions are structured, and what searchers must do to consistently land profitable bundles on Solana. Covers bundle construction, tip sizing strategy, and common rejection pitfalls.

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Feb 6, 2026·5 min read

MEV on Ethereum vs Solana: Mempool Architecture and Opportunity Differences

Ethereum's public mempool and PBS block structure create different MEV dynamics than Solana's Gulf Stream forwarding and Jito's off-chain tip auction. A technical comparison for searchers deciding where to allocate development resources.

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Feb 5, 2026·4 min read

Backrunning Bots: Capturing MEV Without Front-Running

Backrunning captures MEV by landing immediately after a target transaction — no sandwiching, no victim, and increasingly tolerated by validators and protocols alike.

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Feb 3, 2026·4 min read

How Much Does an MEV Bot Cost to Build and Run?

A concrete breakdown of dev hours, RPC/validator infra, and tip budgets that determine what an MEV bot actually costs to build and run.

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Jan 9, 2026·6 min read

Jito Bundle Tips: What You Actually Pay for MEV Priority

A detailed cost breakdown of Jito tip markets in 2025 — how tip auctions work, median vs 99th-percentile tip sizes across block types, and how to model your all-in cost per bundle before deploying a searcher strategy on Solana.

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Jan 8, 2026·4 min read

MEV on Ethereum vs Solana: Mempools, Bundles and Auctions

How Flashbots PBS and Jito bundles create structurally different MEV extraction environments on Ethereum and Solana — and what that means for your bot strategy.

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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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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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Oct 27, 2025·5 min read

Flash Loan Arbitrage Bots: Zero-Capital MEV Explained

Learn how flash loan arbitrage bots borrow, trade, and repay within a single atomic transaction — capturing MEV with zero upfront capital on Solana and beyond.

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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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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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