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A liquidation bot races to repay and seize an undercollateralised position the instant an oracle update crosses the threshold. The architecture, the two data feeds, atomic bundle construction, tip economics and risk controls.
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A Solana indexer turns the raw account and transaction stream into a database shaped for your application. The architecture: a gRPC live consumer, an archive backfill with a clear cutover, versioned decoders, idempotent writes and a reconciler for gaps and reorgs.
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Six things that break when Transaction V1 activates on Solana mainnet, and only one of them throws an error. What fails, how it fails, what to change, and the library versions to pin.
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An AI agent acting on Solana needs a read path, a write path and guardrails, exposed as typed tools through MCP with keys and limits held outside the model. What agents need from infrastructure, how to expose it, and the guardrails that keep an autonomous agent safe.
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WebSockets and Geyser gRPC both push Solana updates. They differ in where they tap the node, how they encode, how they filter and how far they scale. When each is right, and a one-subscription-at-a-time migration path.
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getProgramAccounts is the most expensive and most limited method in the Solana RPC API, and most calls to it should be a gRPC subscription, an indexer query, getMultipleAccounts, or a provider index. Why it is costly and the alternative for each use case.
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