Blog · page 8

Bot engineering, in depth.

Page 8 of 25 — how trading bots actually work on Solana, Hyperliquid and Polymarket.

Hyperliquid
May 27, 2026·5 min read

Cash-and-Carry Basis Trade on Hyperliquid: Step-by-Step

A practical walkthrough of executing a cash-and-carry basis trade using Hyperliquid perps shorted against spot — covering margin requirements, roll timing, and cross-venue execution to lock in the basis spread as near-risk-free yield.

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Hyperliquid
May 27, 2026·4 min read

Building an Iceberg Order Bot on Hyperliquid Perps

Tutorial on chunking large perp orders into iceberg slices to avoid signaling to HFT competitors, with WebSocket-driven order placement logic and dynamic clip sizing based on real-time order book depth.

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Polymarket
May 27, 2026·6 min read

Building a Polymarket CLOB Market-Making Bot: Full Guide

Build a two-sided Polymarket market making bot on the CLOB: inventory skew, tick sizing, queue position and rebate capture, with code and the gotchas that matter.

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Hyperliquid
May 27, 2026·5 min read

HyperBFT Consensus: How Hyperliquid Gets Sub-Second Finality

How HyperBFT consensus, Hyperliquid's HotStuff-derived BFT protocol, pipelines blocks and validator votes to hit sub-second finality on-chain.

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Polymarket
May 26, 2026·6 min read

Polymarket CLOB API Deep-Dive: Orders, Signing & Rate Limits

A developer reference for the Polymarket CLOB API: EIP-712 order signing, REST and WebSocket endpoints, USDC allowances, and rate-limit handling that survives production.

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Hyperliquid
May 26, 2026·6 min read

Inside Hyperliquid's HLP Vault: How It Actually Earns Yield

How Hyperliquid's HLP vault turns liquidation absorption and market-making spread into yield — and the tail risk depositors rarely see coming.

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Comparisons
May 25, 2026·6 min read

Anchor vs Native Solana Programs: Audit Cost Compared

Anchor vs native Solana audit cost compared: how account macros cut auditor hours, quotes, and turnaround versus hand-rolled Rust checks.

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Polymarket
May 25, 2026·6 min read

How UMA Optimistic Oracle Resolution Actually Works

A senior engineer's breakdown of polymarket uma oracle resolution: proposal, liveness, disputes, DVM votes, and how bots price resolution risk.

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Robinhood Chain
May 24, 2026·7 min read

Uniswap on Robinhood Chain: API Guide for Bots and Apps

Uniswap's API now routes crypto and Robinhood Chain stock tokens for bots and apps. Here's how the integration actually works.

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Hyperliquid
May 24, 2026·6 min read

Hyperliquid vs Jupiter Perps: Native L1 vs Solana Perp DEX

Hyperliquid vs Jupiter Perps compared: on-chain order book vs JLP pool pricing, LP risk, latency, and what each means for bot integration.

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Solana
May 24, 2026·5 min read

How Solana Trading Bots Avoid Sandwich Attacks on DEX Swaps

Sandwiching remains pervasive on Solana DEXes. This post explains how bots use private mempools, Jito bundles, tight slippage tolerances, and compute-unit pricing to minimize sandwich exposure.

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Polymarket
May 24, 2026·6 min read

Trading Polymarket Resolution Disputes as a Bot Edge

Polymarket resolution dispute trading: detect UMA disputes on-chain early and position the mispriced 99c/1c legs before the DVM vote finalizes.

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Solana
May 23, 2026·4 min read

Whale Wallet Tracking Bots on Solana: Real-Time Alerts

Learn how streaming account subscriptions and Geyser plugins let you surface whale entries on Solana before price moves — and act on them in milliseconds.

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Hyperliquid
May 23, 2026·6 min read

Hyperliquid vs Vertex Protocol: Cross-Margin Engines Compared

Hyperliquid vs Vertex Protocol: how each venue's cross-margin engine handles spot, perps and lending — and which wins for capital-efficient bots.

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Risk
May 23, 2026·5 min read

How to Build a Kill Switch for Your Solana Trading Bot

A kill switch is the last line of defense when a bot goes rogue. This guide walks through implementing a hardware and software kill switch that halts all open orders and cancels positions on Solana within milliseconds.

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Polymarket
May 22, 2026·6 min read

Polymarket Copytrading Bots: Tracking Smart Wallets On-Chain

Build a Polymarket copytrading bot that mirrors smart wallets from on-chain Polygon fills and the Data API, with slippage-aware entry that skips dead trades.

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Comparisons
May 22, 2026·6 min read

Boutique Audit Studio vs Big-Name Firm: What You Get

A smart contract audit firm comparison: boutique studio turnaround and senior attention vs big-name firm queues, junior staffing, and price.

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Hyperliquid
May 22, 2026·6 min read

Hyperliquid API: REST vs WebSocket for Trading Bots

REST vs WebSocket for Hyperliquid API bots: where each wins on latency, fills, and order book data, with a clear verdict on which to use when.

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Smart Contracts
May 22, 2026·5 min read

Best Rust Libraries for Solana Program Development in 2025

Beyond Anchor itself, libraries like bytemuck for zero-copy account parsing, fixed for deterministic decimal math, and spl-math for overflow-safe operations can cut compute costs and audit surface significantly — this ranked guide covers real-world usage patterns, maintenance status, and when to reach for each in an HFT program.

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Polymarket
May 21, 2026·6 min read

Latency-Racing Polymarket News Markets with WebSocket Feeds

Build a Polymarket news trading bot that races the CLOB WebSocket: ingest feeds, reprice binary markets, and fill on stale liquidity before the book adjusts.

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Hyperliquid
May 21, 2026·6 min read

Hyperliquid vs Backpack Exchange: Perps, Spot and Fees

Hyperliquid vs Backpack Exchange compared on fee tiers, spot/perp margin unification, and on-chain settlement for traders building bots.

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Infrastructure
May 21, 2026·5 min read

Building a Real-Time Solana Data Pipeline with Kafka and ClickHouse

End-to-end guide for streaming raw Solana transaction data from a geyser plugin into Kafka, transforming it, and landing it in ClickHouse for low-latency analytical queries used by trading signal engines. Covers schema design and handling slot gaps.

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Polymarket
May 20, 2026·6 min read

What It Costs to Run a Polymarket Trading Bot in 2026

Polymarket bot cost in 2026, broken down line by line: Polygon gas, USDC.e float, RPC, data feeds and dev time — where the money actually goes.

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Comparisons
May 20, 2026·5 min read

Build vs Buy a Solana Trading Bot: True Cost Breakdown

Detailed cost model comparing in-house bot development (engineer salaries, infra, audit fees) against buying a white-label or managed trading bot solution. Includes a break-even analysis for funds trading under $500k versus over $5m AUM.

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