Blog · page 22

Bot engineering, in depth.

Page 22 of 25 — how trading bots actually work on Solana, Hyperliquid and Polymarket.

Dec 27, 2025·3 min read

Telegram Trading Bots on Solana: UX vs Custom Infra

Off-the-shelf Telegram bots trade speed for custody risk and fee drag — here is what custom Solana infra actually buys you.

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MEV

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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Guides

Dec 27, 2025·4 min read

How Market-Making Bots Work: Spreads, Inventory and Skew

A concrete look at the spread-capture and inventory-risk loop that drives every market-making bot, from CLOB order placement to real-time skew and kill-switches.

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Strategies

Dec 26, 2025·5 min read

Latency Arb on Solana: Jito Bundles vs Raw RPC Sends

Comparing median time-to-inclusion for Jito bundle submission versus direct validator RPC calls across three Solana clusters, with real latency data. When tipping Jito validators pays off — and when raw RPC wins on spread-capture strategies.

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MEV

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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Smart Contracts

Dec 24, 2025·5 min read

How Much Does a Solana Program Security Audit Cost in 2025?

Price ranges from OtterSec, Neodyme, Trail of Bits, and Halborn for Anchor programs vary by line count, CPI complexity, and turnaround — this breakdown gives founders a realistic budget framework and a checklist to reduce scope (and bill) before engaging an auditor. Includes red flags that add 30–50 % to quoted hours.

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Strategies

Dec 23, 2025·5 min read

Backtesting a Solana HFT Bot with Tardis Machine Data

Step-by-step guide to replaying Solana DEX order-book snapshots and trade ticks in Tardis Machine, measuring fill rates, slippage, and PnL before touching live capital — and how to avoid look-ahead bias in tick-level simulations.

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Comparisons

Dec 22, 2025·6 min read

Dedicated RPC vs Shared RPC for Solana Bots: Is It Worth the Cost?

A $300/month dedicated Solana RPC node versus a $29 shared plan sounds obvious, but the ROI depends entirely on your transaction volume and latency sensitivity. We break down the math for serious bot operators.

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Hyperliquid

Dec 22, 2025·5 min read

Hyperliquid Risk Limits: Max Position Sizes and How to Calculate Them

Hyperliquid's per-asset and portfolio-level risk limits, how max leverage tiers scale with notional size, and how to build a pre-trade risk calculator that prevents order rejection at the API level.

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Infrastructure

Dec 21, 2025·5 min read

Building RPC Failover Architecture for Solana Trading Bots

A production walkthrough of multi-provider active-passive failover for Solana trading bots — covering health checks, circuit breakers, and automatic re-routing with HAProxy and a custom health-check sidecar so a single RPC outage never halts your strategy.

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Risk

Dec 20, 2025·4 min read

Best Open-Source Risk Management Libraries for Solana Trading Bots

From position sizing utilities to on-chain transaction simulation, a handful of battle-tested libraries handle the heavy lifting so you are not reinventing drawdown math. We review the top options compatible with Anchor and raw Solana web3.js.

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Solana

Dec 19, 2025·6 min read

Solana Private Mempool via Jito Block Engine: Bundle Submission Deep Dive

Unlike Ethereum, Solana has no public mempool, but Jito's block engine creates a private pre-confirmation ordering layer where bundles compete for inclusion during a specific validator's leader slot. This deep dive explains how the searcher API works, how bundles are ordered within a slot, and how to structure multi-transaction atomic sequences for snipe-then-dump patterns.

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Infrastructure

Dec 16, 2025·5 min read

Hyperliquid API Latency: REST vs WebSocket for Order Management

Benchmarks Hyperliquid's REST and WebSocket order-management endpoints for place, cancel, and amend operations under varying network conditions. Provides guidance on which interface to use for market making versus directional strategies.

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Solana

Dec 15, 2025·5 min read

Wallet Automation and Keypair Rotation for Solana HFT Bots

Managing dozens of hot wallets for high-frequency Solana strategies requires structured keypair rotation, fee-wallet separation, and automated SOL top-up pipelines. This guide covers secure architecture and tooling choices.

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Smart Contracts

Dec 15, 2025·5 min read

Writing a Solidity CTF Adapter for Polymarket Automated Market Making

Polymarket's Conditional Token Framework uses ERC-1155 outcome shares settled through a UMA oracle — this tutorial shows how to write a Solidity adapter contract that wraps CTF splits and merges so a bot can atomically rebalance Yes/No positions in a single transaction. Includes Hardhat fork tests against Polygon mainnet state.

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Comparisons

Dec 15, 2025·5 min read

Python vs Rust for Crypto HFT Bots: Where Python Breaks Down

Python dominates quant research but its GIL and garbage collector create hard ceilings for sub-millisecond execution. This article pins down the exact throughput thresholds where you must switch to Rust.

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Solana

Dec 15, 2025·4 min read

What Does It Cost to Build a Solana Sniper Bot from Scratch

Beyond developer time, a production sniper bot requires co-located RPC nodes, Jito tip budgets, and ongoing maintenance. We break down realistic infrastructure and operational costs for a funded team.

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Solana

Dec 14, 2025·6 min read

Is pump.fun Sniping Still Profitable in 2025? Honest Analysis

The pump.fun sniping meta has shifted significantly as bot saturation increased, graduation rates dropped, and Jito tip wars compressed margins — but a subset of operators are still extracting consistent edge by combining on-chain social signal filtering with sub-50 ms execution. We analyze six months of public chain data and interview three active sniper operators anonymously.

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Strategies

Dec 14, 2025·6 min read

Performance Metrics Beyond Sharpe for HFT Strategies

Calmar, Sortino, profit factor, fill ratio, and adverse-selection rate give you a far more honest picture of HFT strategy health than Sharpe alone. Here is how each metric is calculated, what it actually tells you, and a Python dashboard template that derives all of them directly from exchange trade logs.

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Polymarket

Dec 14, 2025·6 min read

Event-Driven Trading: Crypto Listing Markets on Polymarket

Token-listing prediction markets on Polymarket compress months of uncertainty into a tradeable probability. Learn how to identify mispriced listing markets, backtest against historical exchange announcement data, and automate entry with the CLOB API.

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Comparisons

Dec 10, 2025·4 min read

Hyperliquid Native API vs CCXT for Trading Bot Integration

CCXT offers a unified interface across 100+ exchanges while Hyperliquid's native API exposes order book depth and vault mechanics unavailable elsewhere — this guide shows which integration path wins for each bot type.

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Solana

Dec 6, 2025·5 min read

Solana Multi-Wallet Fan-Out: Automating Hundreds of Keypairs Safely

Running coordinated actions across dozens of wallets — for whitelist farming, volume distribution, or sybil resistance testing — requires a fan-out architecture that avoids nonce collisions and keeps private keys isolated from hot execution paths. This post covers hierarchical deterministic key derivation, encrypted keystore patterns, and batched priority-fee funding flows.

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Hyperliquid

Dec 6, 2025·4 min read

Hyperliquid Funding Rates vs. Binance and Bybit: Where to Farm

Data-driven comparison of funding rate levels, volatility, and payout consistency across Hyperliquid, Binance perps, and Bybit to identify which venue delivers the most reliable yield for delta-neutral strategies.

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Hyperliquid

Dec 6, 2025·5 min read

Best Frameworks for Building Hyperliquid Trading Bots in 2025

Comparison of the leading open-source and commercial frameworks for Hyperliquid bot development — Hummingbot, custom Rust stacks, and Python SDK wrappers — rated on latency, maintainability, and community support.

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