Blog · page 17

Bot engineering, in depth.

Page 17 of 25 — how trading bots actually work on Solana, Hyperliquid and Polymarket.

Mar 24, 2026·7 min read

Correlation Risk in Multi-Strategy Bots: Netting Exposure Across Venues

Portfolio correlation risk trading bot crypto: how to net exposure across Solana, Hyperliquid and Polymarket so stacked correlated bets don't blow up.

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Risk

Mar 24, 2026·7 min read

Multisig vs MPC Wallets: Cutting Custody Risk for Trading Bots

Multisig vs MPC wallet custody risk compared for trading bots: signing latency, gas cost, vendor lock-in, and which to use when.

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Smart Contracts

Mar 23, 2026·6 min read

Anchor PDA Seed Design for Multi-Vault Trading Programs

A practical guide to anchor pda seed design: choosing seeds and canonical bumps so one trading program hosts thousands of isolated vaults without collisions.

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Solana

Mar 23, 2026·5 min read

Real Cost of Running a Solana Trading Bot in 2025: Full Breakdown

Between dedicated RPC nodes, Geyser subscriptions, Jito tips, compute unit fees, and co-location server costs, a serious Solana bot operation can burn over $3,000 per month before a single profitable trade. This article breaks down every line item, compares shared-vs-dedicated RPC pricing from Helius, QuickNode, and Triton, and shows how volume thresholds determine which infrastructure tier makes sense.

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Comparisons

Mar 22, 2026·5 min read

Solana vs Ethereum for Trading Bots: Gas Fees & Execution Speed 2025

Ethereum's EIP-1559 fee market and 12-second block times versus Solana's sub-cent fees and 400ms slots produce radically different cost structures for the same arbitrage strategy — here is the full fee and latency comparison.

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Solana

Mar 22, 2026·6 min read

Geyser Yellowstone gRPC: Real-Time Account Feeds for Solana Bots

Polling RPC nodes for account updates introduces 50-200 ms of unnecessary latency compared to streaming directly from a Geyser-compatible plugin like Yellowstone. This tutorial walks through subscribing to transaction and account streams over gRPC, filtering by program ID, and parsing Protobuf messages inside a Rust or TypeScript bot.

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Smart Contracts

Mar 22, 2026·6 min read

Address Lookup Tables: Fitting 20-Leg Arbs in One Solana Tx

A practical guide to solana address lookup tables: build, extend, and warm ALTs so a 20-leg Jupiter/Meteora arb fits under the 1232-byte v0 tx limit.

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Strategies

Mar 22, 2026·4 min read

Paper Trading Hyperliquid Perps: A Pre-Live Checklist

How to wire a strategy against Hyperliquid's testnet WebSocket feed, track realistic funding and fee drag, and set clear go/no-go metrics before deploying real margin. Includes a Python checklist for validating order-management logic.

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Hyperliquid

Mar 21, 2026·5 min read

Is the Hyperliquid HLP Vault Worth It in 2025?

A production-level review comparing HLP vault yields against perp funding farming, Drift vaults, and centralized structured products — with drawdown history and fee drag analysis to help allocators make an informed decision.

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Smart Contracts

Mar 21, 2026·6 min read

Zero-Copy Anchor Accounts for Large On-Chain Orderbooks

Hold multi-kilobyte orderbooks on-chain without stack overflows using anchor zero copy accounts, bytemuck casting, and safe realloc patterns for Solana programs.

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Strategies

Mar 21, 2026·5 min read

ML Features That Actually Predict Solana AMM Price Moves

Benchmarks 14 feature families — CLOB imbalance, liquidity-pool reserves, validator vote counts, on-chain program call frequency — against a gradient-boosted baseline on Jupiter aggregator data. Highlights which features survive a walk-forward purge-and-embargo split.

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Infrastructure

Mar 21, 2026·5 min read

Jito Bundles and Private Mempool: MEV Bot Infrastructure on Solana

How Jito's block engine and bundle auction work at the infrastructure level, and what your bot needs to submit competitive bundles without wasting compute. Covers tip selection, bundle landing rates, and monitoring rejected bundles.

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Polymarket

Mar 20, 2026·5 min read

Polymarket Bot Development Cost: What You Actually Pay For

Polymarket bot development cost isn't one number — it breaks into strategy R&D, CLOB integration, and ongoing ops, each with its own price tag.

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MEV

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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Smart Contracts

Mar 20, 2026·7 min read

Solidity Permit2 Gasless Approvals for an EVM Sniping Bot

Build a router with permit2 smart contract integration so your EVM sniping bot swaps in one tx — no separate approve, a full block of latency and gas cut.

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Strategies

Mar 19, 2026·5 min read

Tuning Spread and Inventory Skew in a Market-Making Bot

A practical walkthrough of Bayesian optimisation with Optuna to jointly tune bid-ask spread, inventory skew intensity, and order-refresh interval on a Hyperliquid maker strategy — including how to penalise drawdown in the objective function without overfitting to a single regime.

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Strategies

Mar 19, 2026·5 min read

Statistical Arb Between Polymarket and Kalshi Correlated Events

Identifies co-integrated prediction-market pairs — identical underlying events priced on both venues — and builds a mean-reversion signal using the Engle-Granger two-step procedure. Shows how to hedge execution risk given Polymarket's on-chain settlement lag.

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Solana

Mar 19, 2026·4 min read

Solana Launch Bundlers: Buying Your Own Token at Mint

How Solana launch bundlers let founders buy their own token at mint using Jito bundles — and where the disclosure line sits between strategy and manipulation.

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Smart Contracts

Mar 19, 2026·6 min read

Formal Verification of a Solana Trading Program with Certora

A hands-on guide to Solana formal verification: writing invariants and running Certora-style symbolic checks on a settlement program to prove no-fund-loss properties audits miss.

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Infrastructure

Mar 18, 2026·5 min read

Colocation for Solana Trading: Equinix Dallas vs Chicago

Leader-schedule geography matters — we compare network hops from Equinix DA11 and CH2 to the highest-stake Solana validators and show latency measurements for sendTransaction confirmation times from each facility.

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Smart Contracts

Mar 17, 2026·7 min read

Squads Multisig Timelocks for Live Trading Program Upgrades

A concrete Squads v4 setup for a squads multisig upgrade authority: timelock gating, deterministic buffer verification, and a guardian break-glass pause for live trading programs.

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Guides

Mar 16, 2026·6 min read

Trading Bot Order State Machines: Idempotent Fills & Crash Recovery

A builder's guide to trading bot order state machine crash recovery: persist the lifecycle, dedupe fills, and get exactly-once placement across Jito, Hyperliquid, and Polymarket.

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Polymarket

Mar 16, 2026·5 min read

Polymarket CLOB API: Building Your First Order Bot

A hands-on map of Polymarket's CLOB REST and WebSocket API — from order signing to latency tricks — for devs shipping their first prediction-market bot.

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Guides

Mar 15, 2026·7 min read

Polymarket Neg-Risk Adapter: Split/Merge Arbitrage Mechanics

How a bot exploits Polymarket neg risk adapter split merge convert calls to arb sum-of-outcomes mispricing — with the Polygon gas math that decides the trade.

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