Blog · page 19

Bot engineering, in depth.

Page 19 of 26 — how trading bots actually work on Solana, Hyperliquid and Polymarket.

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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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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Infrastructure

Mar 14, 2026·5 min read

WebSocket vs Polling for Solana Account Updates in Trading Bots

Compares accountSubscribe WebSocket subscriptions against periodic getAccountInfo polling for detecting on-chain state changes relevant to trading signals. Explains when each approach breaks down and how to combine both for resilient coverage.

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Guides

Mar 14, 2026·6 min read

How to Write a Trading Bot Spec That Gets an Accurate Quote

A hire-side template for your trading bot development scope of work spec — venues, latency budgets, RPC/Geyser assumptions and acceptance tests for a firm quote.

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Strategies

Mar 14, 2026·6 min read

Is Hyperliquid Vault Copy-Trading Worth It for Small Funds?

Analyses the fee drag, capacity constraints, and alpha decay of deploying capital into top-ranked Hyperliquid vaults versus running a proprietary strategy, with a break-even model for AUM between $50k and $5 m.

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Polymarket

Mar 13, 2026·5 min read

Polymarket vs Kalshi: Which Prediction Market Is Best for Traders?

Side-by-side comparison of Polymarket and Kalshi across liquidity depth, API quality, regulatory status, fee structures, and resolution track records to help active traders choose the right venue.

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Solana

Mar 13, 2026·5 min read

Sniping Meteora DLMM Launches: Bin Strategy and Bot Setup

Meteora DLMM pools use discrete liquidity bins rather than a traditional curve — this post explains how bots identify the active bin, time entry, and avoid sandwich exposure on new launches.

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MEV

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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Strategies

Mar 12, 2026·5 min read

TWAP vs VWAP Execution Algos on Solana DEXs: What Works

Benchmarking a child-order scheduler for TWAP and participation-rate VWAP against arrival price on Raydium and Orca — measuring implementation shortfall at varying parent-order sizes and showing why on-chain block cadence breaks naive time-slicing assumptions.

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Polymarket

Mar 11, 2026·7 min read

Best Polymarket Markets to Trade: Liquidity Depth Analysis

Not all Polymarket markets are created equal — spreads and slippage vary by orders of magnitude across categories. This data-driven analysis ranks Polymarket market verticals by average depth, maker activity, and fill rate for algorithmic traders.

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Solana

Mar 10, 2026·5 min read

Using the Solana Geyser Plugin for Real-Time Account Updates in Bots

Geyser plugins stream raw account and transaction updates directly from a validator, bypassing public RPC bottlenecks entirely. This guide explains how to set up a Yellowstone gRPC Geyser stream for latency-critical bot strategies.

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