The simulation says profit. The mempool feed (mental shorthand here — Solana has no mempool, more on that later) says the route is open. The transaction lands. The bundle confirms. The arithmetic says...
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The simulation says profit. The mempool feed (mental shorthand here — Solana has no mempool, more on that later) says the route is open. The transaction lands. The bundle confirms. The arithmetic says...
For a long time I told myself my bot did not really need a local database. Everything I cared about was on-chain. Pool addresses, token mints, reserves, fees — all of it lives on Solana, queryable thr...
I have been running my arbitrage bot for weeks now and the same pattern keeps showing up in the logs. I find what looks like a clean opportunity, I sign the transaction, I send it with what I think is...
I'm staring at a config value that was true last week and is a quiet lie this week. It's the maximum size, in dollars, that the bot is allowed to put into a single arbitrage attempt. I picked the numb...
There's a specific kind of dread that hits when you watch a bot you wrote do something stupid in a loop. Each iteration takes a few hundred milliseconds. By the time you've registered the pattern, alt...
There is a moment every infrastructure engineer hits at least once, and I am hitting it now. I keep adding pools to my bot's scan list, and the bot keeps getting slower. Not in a smooth, predictable w...
My bot restarts more than I'd like. RPC connections die under load. Blockhashes go stale after a minute or so. A leader rotation makes the previous tip-routing assumptions wrong. I push a config tweak...
I keep catching myself saying things like "this part is fast enough" while I work on the bot. Every time the words leave my mouth, I feel a little jolt of doubt, because the more time I spend reading ...
I flip on a fresh gRPC client, point it at a Yellowstone-compatible endpoint, and run the bot. Nothing comes back. Not a connection refused, not a DNS failure, not the kind of error that tells you to ...
I'm rewriting the hot path of my Solana MEV bot in Rust, and the first wall I hit isn't the borrow checker. It's `Cargo.toml`. On paper, Cargo is the cleanest dependency manager I've used. One file, o...
I'm a few weeks into rewriting parts of my Solana MEV bot in Rust, and the same two crate names keep showing up in every file I touch: `serde` and `borsh`. They both have derive macros that look almos...
It is mid-afternoon, my coffee has gone cold, and I am staring at a terminal where `cargo build --release` has been running for almost six minutes. I changed exactly one line. I added a single field t...
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The simulation says profit. The mempool feed (mental shorthand here — Solana has no mempool, more on that later) says the route is open. The transaction lands. The bundle confirms. The arithmetic says...
For a long time I told myself my bot did not really need a local database. Everything I cared about was on-chain. Pool addresses, token mints, reserves, fees — all of it lives on Solana, queryable thr...
I'm staring at a config value that was true last week and is a quiet lie this week. It's the maximum size, in dollars, that the bot is allowed to put into a single arbitrage attempt. I picked the numb...
There's a specific kind of dread that hits when you watch a bot you wrote do something stupid in a loop. Each iteration takes a few hundred milliseconds. By the time you've registered the pattern, alt...
My bot restarts more than I'd like. RPC connections die under load. Blockhashes go stale after a minute or so. A leader rotation makes the previous tip-routing assumptions wrong. I push a config tweak...
It is mid-afternoon, my coffee has gone cold, and I am staring at a terminal where `cargo build --release` has been running for almost six minutes. I changed exactly one line. I added a single field t...
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Building a Solana MEV bot from scratch with AI. Documenting every win, loss, and lesson along the way.
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