6 minute read

Published: March 14, 2026

Data-driven token config cleanup: disabled 9 LSTs that contributed zero arb signals across 373,000+ events, kept the 5 that matter, and expanded monitoring to 6 extra token pairs (BONK, WIF, JUP, RAY, ORCA, PYTH) via a new enabled flag system. Results to follow.

Scanner Service Production Validation: 9.4M Quotes, 106-Hour Continuous Run, and Multi-DEX Arbitrage Signal Detection

14 minute read

Published: March 12, 2026

Final quality assessment of the Solana quote & scanner pipeline: 9.4M quotes across 11 test sessions, a 106.4-hour uninterrupted run with zero errors, 100% oracle coverage, and structured arbitrage signals detected from Orca Whirlpool concentrated liquidity pools across multiple DEXes.

OpenClaw Beyond Trading Bots: AI-Assisted China Stock Data Retrieval and Analysis

9 minute read

Published: March 11, 2026

OpenClaw isn’t just for monitoring trading bots — it’s a general-purpose AI agent gateway. I used it with Claude Code to rapidly build a China A-share stock data pipeline and TradingView-compatible charting service, then wired OpenClaw to analyse stocks and send chart summaries straight to Telegram.

OpenClaw: AI-Powered Monitoring for My Solana HFT Trading Bot

15 minute read

Published: March 10, 2026

How I set up OpenClaw — an AI agent gateway — to monitor and control my Solana HFT Docker services via Telegram, with strict security isolation so the AI bot can never touch private keys or wallet secrets.

Puppeteer Service: A Stealth Browser Microservice for Bot-Protected APIs

16 minute read

Published: March 06, 2026

How we built a headless Chromium microservice with puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth and residential proxy support to reliably fetch data from bot-protected DeFi APIs — and the non-obvious design decisions that made it work.

Quote Service Production Validation: Zero Critical Deviations & a Chinese New Year Milestone

8 minute read

Published: February 27, 2026

Happy Chinese New Year! Comprehensive gRPC quote service validation delivers a 9.3/10 system health score — zero critical deviations across 1,001 quotes, 100% oracle price coverage, and 99.9% arbitrage match rate. The system is production ready.

Scanner Service Deep Dive: Arbitrage Detection Engine with Full Observability

14 minute read

Published: January 25, 2026

Deep dive into the TypeScript Scanner Service architecture - the arbitrage detection engine that processes gRPC quote streams, detects profitable opportunities, and publishes FlatBuffers events. Plus: reflections on two months of AI-assisted development and thoughts on the future of programming.

Project Milestone Complete: Infrastructure Ready for Arbitrage Scanner, Planner, and Executor

7 minute read

Published: January 20, 2026

Major milestone achieved: infrastructure reaches 85% completion with production-ready quote services. Project assessment validates 70-75% feasibility for $1k/month target. Ready to shift focus to arbitrage scanner, planner, and executor development in TypeScript as prototypes for future Rust implementation.

Quote Services Evolution: Local Enhancements, External Integration, and Quote Aggregator Architecture

15 minute read

Published: January 18, 2026

Comprehensive upgrade to the quote service ecosystem: Local Quote Service gains intelligent pool quality management with oracle validation and dynamic refresh priorities, External Quote Service integrates Jupiter/DFlow/OKX APIs, and the new Quote Aggregator Service merges both sources with confidence scoring for optimal trade execution.

Pool Discovery Refactored: Bug Fixes, Architecture Simplification, and Comprehensive Testing

23 minute read

Published: January 08, 2026

Pool Discovery Service undergoes major refactoring after discovering critical liquidity calculation bugs. Architecture simplified to focus solely on discovery, comprehensive test suite validates 716 unique pools across 13 DEXes, and extensive token pair support beyond LST tokens. Production metrics confirm improvements with proper liquidity tracking and accurate pool counting.

Happy New Year 2026! Quote Service Evolution: From 3 to 5 Microservices

16 minute read

Published: January 01, 2026

🎉 Happy New Year 2026! Quote service evolution continues: splitting the quote-service into 3 specialized services (local, external, aggregator) for a total of 5 microservices with dual shared memory for ultra-fast IPC, batch streaming, and 100× faster oracle validation.

Pool Discovery Service: Triangular Arbitrage Support and Production Insights

15 minute read

Published: December 29, 2025

Pool Discovery Service reaches production milestone with triangular arbitrage support (45 token pairs), completing the Quote Service Rewrite architecture. Observability reveals surprising market insights: SOL/USDT has 278B liquidity (vs SOL/USDC 226B), and forward/reverse pool discovery yields asymmetric results.

Pool Discovery Service: Real-Time Liquidity Tracking and Intelligent RPC Proxy

20 minute read

Published: December 28, 2025

Deep dive into the pool-discovery-service architecture: WebSocket-first pool updates, hybrid three-tier discovery strategy, and the intelligent RPC proxy enabling reliable connections to Solana RPC providers.

Quote Service Rewrite: Clean Architecture for Long-Term Maintainability

27 minute read

Published: December 25, 2025

🎄 Merry Christmas! Planning a comprehensive rewrite of quote-service with clean architecture principles: 85% code reduction, 20x faster quotes, 4x better test coverage, and dramatically improved maintainability. Why we’re rebuilding the foundation for long-term success.

Quote Service Architecture: The HFT Engine Core

27 minute read

Published: December 22, 2025

Deep dive into quote-service architecture: Go-powered quote engine with sub-10ms responses, gRPC streaming, NATS event publishing, Redis crash recovery, and 99.99% availability. The critical data layer powering our HFT pipeline.

FlatBuffers Migration Complete: HFT Pipeline Infrastructure Ready with System Manager & Auditor

26 minute read

Published: December 21, 2025

FlatBuffers migration infrastructure is complete. All 8 services migrated to zero-copy serialization with 6-stream NATS architecture. Added system-manager (kill switch) and system-auditor (P&L tracking). Most services are stubs, but the foundation is solid - ready for strategy implementation.

Architecture Assessment: Sub-500ms Solana HFT System Design

28 minute read

Published: December 21, 2025

Comprehensive architectural assessment of a production-grade Solana HFT system. Event-driven design, FlatBuffers zero-copy serialization, polyglot microservices, and 6-stream NATS architecture achieve sub-500ms execution with 87% CPU savings. Grade: A (93/100).

FlatBuffers Migration: Consolidating Documentation and Early-Stage Architecture Decisions for HFT Systems

18 minute read

Published: December 20, 2025

Documentation consolidation for FlatBuffers migration: From 13 scattered docs to 1 authoritative guide. Why early-stage architecture changes are critical for HFT systems, even though time-consuming. Migration still in progress - and it’s worth every minute.

Event System Evolution: FlatBuffers Migration and Event-Type Architecture for High-Frequency Solana Trading

13 minute read

Published: December 20, 2025

How we achieved 35% latency reduction and 87% CPU savings by migrating from JSON to FlatBuffers and evolving from priority-based to event-type NATS streams in our Solana HFT trading system.

HFT Pipeline Architecture & FlatBuffers Migration: Sub-100ms Trading with Zero-Copy Serialization

28 minute read

Published: December 18, 2025

Building a production-ready HFT pipeline: 4-stage architecture with 6-stream NATS separation, FlatBuffers zero-copy serialization for 21% latency reduction, and comprehensive kill switch safety controls for sub-100ms quote-to-execution.

Production-Ready Quote Service & Scanner Framework: Oracle-Based Quotes and Extensible Architecture

31 minute read

Published: December 17, 2025

Building production infrastructure: Dynamic oracle-based reverse quotes for accurate arbitrage detection, scanner framework optimization with 80% code reduction, and extensible patterns for DCA, limit orders, and liquidation monitoring.

gRPC Streaming for High-Frequency Quote Distribution: Optimizing Token Pair Performance

21 minute read

Published: December 16, 2025

Deep dive into gRPC streaming architecture for real-time quote distribution: achieving sub-20ms latency, handling 1000+ quotes/second, and preparing for high-frequency arbitrage with optimized token pair quote streaming.

Building a Production Arbitrage Scanner: gRPC Streaming and Real-Time Detection

12 minute read

Published: December 13, 2025

Implementing a high-performance arbitrage scanner using gRPC streaming to achieve 85x faster quote delivery and sub-30ms detection latency. Moving from prototype to production with architectural improvements.

Quote Service Observability: Comprehensive Metrics, Tracing, and Kubernetes Migration Planning

24 minute read

Published: December 12, 2025

Added comprehensive metrics and distributed tracing to the quote-service, created a detailed Grafana performance dashboard, and drafted a complete Kubernetes migration plan. Plus, a special birthday celebration for my son Harry as he embarks on his university journey.

Unified Observability: Migrating to Grafana LGTM Stack with Alloy

13 minute read

Published: December 10, 2025

Migrated from deprecated Promtail to Grafana Alloy and upgraded to the complete Grafana LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) for unified observability. Updated the Events Dashboard with real-time NATS event monitoring, preparing for a potential future migration to Grafana Cloud.

Day’s Work: NATS Event Publishing and TypeScript Scanner Service Foundation

8 minute read

Published: December 09, 2025

Published market events to NATS JetStream in the quote-service with comprehensive Grafana monitoring, and created a TypeScript scanner-service stub as the foundation for real-time trading opportunity detection. The TypeScript version will be implemented first, with a high-performance Rust version planned for later.

The Research Behind the Plan: Two Years and Three Prototypes

16 minute read

Published: December 07, 2025

Five years of Solana development and three working trading prototypes inform the production system. This post provides context on that research journey, the lessons learned, and why the challenge itself is valuable regardless of outcome.

Day’s Work: System Initializer Rename, LST Oracle Support, and Market Events

10 minute read

Published: December 07, 2025

Three major improvements today: renamed event-preparer to system-initializer to reflect expanded capabilities, added production-grade LST token support with oracle price feeds and deviation detection, and implemented market event publishing for real-time trading data distribution.

Adding Observability and Monitoring to Solana Trading System: Go, Rust, and TypeScript

7 minute read

Published: December 06, 2025

Implementing comprehensive observability across Go, Rust, and TypeScript services with unified logging, metrics, and tracing. Added event-preparer and notification-service, integrated quote-service monitoring with Grafana dashboards.

Building a Cross-Language Event System for Solana Trading: Rust, Go, and TypeScript

8 minute read

Published: December 05, 2025

Implementing a unified event system across Rust, Go, and TypeScript for the Solana trading system. Includes market data events, system health monitoring, kill switches, and arbitrage opportunities - all communicating via NATS JetStream.

Getting Started: Building a Solana Trading System from Prototype to Production

6 minute read

Published: December 04, 2025

Starting a journey to build a production-grade High-Frequency Trading (HFT) system on Solana. Currently have working arbitrage bots (~1.7s execution), aiming for sub-500ms execution with local pool math, Shredstream integration, and flash loans.