I keep a running log of every transaction that fails on me — every `AccountDidNotDeserialize`, every `ConstraintSeeds`, every silent drop where the bot thinks it submitted something and the chain shru...
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I keep a running log of every transaction that fails on me — every `AccountDidNotDeserialize`, every `ConstraintSeeds`, every silent drop where the bot thinks it submitted something and the chain shru...
My scanner keeps finding five-hop cycles. The simulator keeps rejecting them. The error message is always the same shape: the transaction is too large, by a few dozen bytes, sometimes by a couple hund...
When I call `sendBundle`, the response comes back almost instantly. A clean UUID, a 200 status, the kind of acknowledgment that looks for all the world like "we got it, you're good." For about twenty ...
I ran the benchmark three times because I did not want to believe it the first two....
My bot tracks one pool well. It really does. The reserves are fresh, the predicted state lines up with what the chain confirms a moment later, and the math comes out clean. For a few days I let myself...
My bot is doing exactly what I designed it to do. It scans pools. It compares prices. It finds discrepancies. It calculates expected output. It signs and submits transactions. The logic, line for line...
I'm staring at a backtest result that doesn't make sense. The single-hop arbitrage predictions look fine — within a fraction of a percent of what actually executes on-chain. The two-hop predictions ar...
I've spent weeks chasing one number down. The first time I ran the route detector on real on-chain data, the predicted profits it spat out were roughly six to seven times what those same trades wo...
It's June 2026, and I've been writing this series long enough to have stopped pretending this would be a side project measured in weeks. Long enough that "the first profitable arbitrage" remains an as...
Somewhere between the AMM math and the on-chain debugging, something strange started happening. The bugs I was chasing weren't the hardest part of the day anymore. The hardest part was deciding what t...
I never sat down and weighed solo against team for this Solana MEV project. I just started. The reason is plain: I had a question I wanted answered — *can a regular developer carve out a slice of on-c...
I'm in week N of trying to integrate yet another Solana DEX into my MEV bot, and I just stared at a 404 page for two full minutes. The documentation link in the project's GitHub README points to a dom...
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I keep a running log of every transaction that fails on me — every `AccountDidNotDeserialize`, every `ConstraintSeeds`, every silent drop where the bot thinks it submitted something and the chain shru...
My scanner keeps finding five-hop cycles. The simulator keeps rejecting them. The error message is always the same shape: the transaction is too large, by a few dozen bytes, sometimes by a couple hund...
I ran the benchmark three times because I did not want to believe it the first two....
My bot tracks one pool well. It really does. The reserves are fresh, the predicted state lines up with what the chain confirms a moment later, and the math comes out clean. For a few days I let myself...
My bot is doing exactly what I designed it to do. It scans pools. It compares prices. It finds discrepancies. It calculates expected output. It signs and submits transactions. The logic, line for line...
I've spent weeks chasing one number down. The first time I ran the route detector on real on-chain data, the predicted profits it spat out were roughly six to seven times what those same trades wo...
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