Blog · page 20

Bot engineering, in depth.

Page 20 of 26 — how trading bots actually work on Solana, Hyperliquid and Polymarket.

Mar 10, 2026·4 min read

Backtesting Crypto Bots: Avoiding the Overfitting Trap

Learn how walk-forward testing and realistic fee modeling separate genuinely profitable crypto bots from beautifully curve-fit disasters.

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MEV

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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Smart Contracts

Mar 8, 2026·5 min read

Custom On-Chain Settlement Program vs. SDK: Is It Worth It?

An off-the-shelf SDK like Drift's TypeScript client gets you live in days, but a custom settlement program shaves latency, enables atomic multi-leg execution, and lets you own upgrade decisions. We lay out the cost, risk, and performance trade-offs for trading studios.

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Smart Contracts

Mar 8, 2026·6 min read

Flash-Loan Arbitrage in a Single Solana Program Atomic Bundle

Solana does not have native flash loans, but you can replicate the pattern using same-transaction CPI sequences across Marginfi and Kamino. This guide shows how to structure the borrow, swap, and repay CPIs inside one Anchor instruction to guarantee atomicity.

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MEV

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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MEV

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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Hyperliquid

Mar 7, 2026·5 min read

Hyperliquid Vaults and HLP: Automating Depositor Strategies

Learn how to run a profitable Hyperliquid vault as a strategy operator—beyond passive HLP deposits—using automated market-making, funding harvesting, and robust risk controls.

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MEV

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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Solana

Mar 6, 2026·4 min read

Hiring a Solana Trading Bot Developer: Skills and Red Flags

Rust fluency, Anchor familiarity, and low-level RPC knowledge separate capable Solana bot engineers from generalist blockchain developers. This guide gives fund managers and founders a practical vetting framework.

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Risk

Mar 6, 2026·4 min read

Is Multisig Worth the Latency Cost for a Solana HFT Bot Wallet?

Squads and other Solana multisig programs add an on-chain approval step that can introduce tens of milliseconds of signing overhead. We benchmark the latency impact and explain when multisig is a non-negotiable control versus an overkill choice.

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Comparisons

Mar 5, 2026·5 min read

Rust vs TypeScript for Solana Trading Bots: Speed vs Dev Speed

Rust gives you microsecond execution but TypeScript cuts development time in half — we quantify exactly where the performance gap matters and where it doesn't for on-chain arbitrage bots.

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Solana

Mar 1, 2026·5 min read

Building a Solana Copy-Trade Bot That Tracks Alpha Wallets

Copy-trading on Solana means streaming transaction logs, filtering by target wallets, decoding swap instructions, and replaying them with minimal latency. This tutorial covers the full implementation pipeline.

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Hyperliquid

Feb 26, 2026·5 min read

Hyperliquid HLP Vault: Real Returns, Real Risks Explained

An honest breakdown of the HLP liquidity-provider vault — how it earns fees, when it loses to informed flow, and how vault PnL correlates with market volatility. Essential reading before depositing capital as a passive LP.

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Hyperliquid

Feb 26, 2026·5 min read

Hyperliquid Vault Deposits, Withdrawals, and On-Chain Tax Tracking

Step-by-step on depositing and withdrawing from Hyperliquid vaults via USDC bridging, plus how to pull on-chain transaction data for cost-basis and PnL tracking using Koinly or a custom script against the Hyperliquid Info API.

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Polymarket

Feb 25, 2026·6 min read

Complementary-Outcome Arbitrage on Polymarket: How It Works

When YES + NO prices sum to less than $1 across a binary market, a risk-free spread exists. This guide explains how to detect, size, and execute complementary-outcome arbitrage on Polymarket using the CLOB API and UMA's CTF adapter.

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Polymarket

Feb 25, 2026·6 min read

Hiring a Polymarket Trading Bot Developer: What to Expect

A practical guide for funds and founders evaluating studios or freelancers for Polymarket automation — covering required skills (CLOB API, UMA resolution logic, conditional tokens), realistic timelines, and red flags in proposals.

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Polymarket

Feb 24, 2026·5 min read

Polymarket API Rate Limits, WebSocket Streaming, and Best Practices

Technical reference covering Polymarket CLOB API rate limit tiers, how to maintain a low-latency WebSocket connection for real-time order book updates, and reconnection strategies for production trading systems.

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MEV

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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MEV

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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MEV

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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Solana

Feb 20, 2026·5 min read

Solana Bundler Bots for Anti-Snipe Protection at Token Launch

Project founders use bundlers to atomically execute liquidity addition and initial buys in a single block, preventing sniper bots from front-running the pool creation on Raydium or Meteora. This article explains how bundled launches work from the issuer's perspective, which services offer this as a product, and what sniper bot operators do to adapt.

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Strategies

Feb 19, 2026·5 min read

Inventory Management Using Avellaneda-Stoikov On-Chain

Translates the classic Avellaneda-Stoikov continuous-time market-making model into discrete on-chain quote updates, with a worked Rust implementation for Hyperliquid. Discusses how to calibrate the risk-aversion parameter using realised volatility from a rolling 5-minute OHLCV window.

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Hyperliquid

Feb 18, 2026·5 min read

Liquidation Hunting on Hyperliquid: How It Works and How to Bot It

How to read Hyperliquid's open-interest and leverage maps to front-run cascading liquidations, and how to build a bot that enters positions just before a liquidation wick to capture the spread — with real risk controls for false-signal trades.

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Comparisons

Feb 18, 2026·5 min read

Hyperliquid vs dYdX for Market-Making Bots: Fee & Edge Analysis

Breaks down maker rebates, taker fees, funding rate mechanics, and API rate limits on Hyperliquid versus dYdX v4 to quantify which venue offers more edge per dollar of inventory deployed by an automated market maker.

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