Measure before you build
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The expensive mistake in on-chain arbitrage is building a fast bot for a market you haven't measured. This post is about measuring first, on Solana and then on Robinhood Chain, and what the numbers changed.
The expensive mistake in on-chain arbitrage is building a fast bot for a market you haven't measured. This post is about measuring first, on Solana and then on Robinhood Chain, and what the numbers changed.
In 2026 I spent most of my time on a Rust trading system for Polymarket's 15-minute BTC up/down markets. I spent more of that time on the backtester than on the live bot, and this post is about what the backtester got wrong.