FOR ARBITRAGE BOTS

Solana infrastructure for arbitrage bots.

Arbitrage is a race with no second place. The winner is whoever sees the imbalance first and gets the correcting transaction in first.

THE WORKLOAD

What decides the outcome.

An arbitrage bot watches for price dislocations - across pools, venues, or against an oracle - and races to correct them for profit. Because the opportunity closes the instant someone takes it, arbitrage is unusually sensitive to two things: how early you see the imbalance, and how fast your transaction reaches the leader. Both are decided by infrastructure, not strategy.

  • If you see the opportunity at confirmed commitment, you are seeing it after the traders reading first-seen data have already acted. The earliest observation wins.
  • Even a perfect signal loses if the transaction is forwarded through extra hops to the leader. Direct-to-leader delivery removes that tax.
  • During the congestion that big opportunities create, landing rate collapses on shared, unstaked paths - the moment it matters most.

THE STACK

The path, mapped.

Decoded shreds

First-seen transaction intent from the shred layer, aggregated from multiple sources - the earliest signal of an imbalance forming.

Explore Decoded shreds

Yellowstone gRPC

Live, filtered account and transaction streams to track pool and oracle state without polling lag.

Explore Yellowstone gRPC

Transaction sender

Direct-to-leader QUIC delivery plus Jito bundles for atomic, ordered execution - so the correcting transaction lands first.

Explore Transaction sender

FAQ

Straight answers.

What makes an arbitrage bot fast on Solana?
Seeing the imbalance early and landing the fix first. That means reading first-seen data from the shred layer (not waiting for confirmed blocks), and sending the correcting transaction straight to the current leader - ideally as a Jito bundle for atomic, ordered execution. Co-location shortens both halves of the race.
Why use Jito bundles for arbitrage?
A bundle executes all-or-nothing in a defined order, so you can express a multi-leg arb atomically and bid for inclusion with a tip. It removes the risk of landing one leg and not the other, and competes directly in the block-space auction where these opportunities are settled.

See-first and land-first are both infrastructure. Tell us what you are racing and we will map the earliest path to it.