What Happened to BONK? The $21M DAO Attack, Explained
The exact BIP-76 vote, wallets, quorum math and sell-off behind BONK's July 2026 collapse-and why the code worked while governance failed.
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What Happened to BONK? The $21M DAO Attack, Explained
The exact BIP-76 vote, wallets, quorum math and sell-off behind BONK's July 2026 collapse-and why the code worked while governance failed.
Solana Trading Bots Compared: BonkBot, Trojan, Photon, BullX, GMGN & ScreenerBot
Telegram sniper bots vs. a native desktop app: how BonkBot, Trojan, Photon, BullX, and GMGN compare to ScreenerBot on interface, custody model, and automation.
DexScreener Trending and Volume Bots: Spotting Fake Volume
What DexScreener trending and boosts really are, and the five on-chain signatures that separate manufactured volume from genuine trading.
Every Solana DEX Program ID and Pool Layout, Decoded
Verified program IDs and byte offsets for Raydium, Orca Whirlpool, Meteora, PumpSwap, Moonit and FluxBeam, from twelve decoders we run in production.
Best Solana Wallets in 2026: 7 Wallets Compared
Phantom, Solflare, Backpack, Jupiter Mobile, Ledger, Exodus and ScreenerBot compared on custody, hardware support and desktop automation.
Jupiter Referral Program: How to Monetize Every Swap on Solana
How Jupiter platform fees and referral accounts work, what you are allowed to charge, and how to collect swap revenue in a bot or Telegram mini-app.
Why Local-First Trading Bots Beat Cloud Bots in DeFi
Why running a Solana bot on your own machine beats a cloud service: measured latency, key custody, outage exposure and real cost per trade.
Why RPC Choice Can Make or Break Your Trading Bot
How your Solana RPC choice changes fill quality: latency budgets, rate-limit ceilings, failover design, and what actually costs you trades.
Solana Token Scams: On-Chain Patterns & Red Flags
The on-chain patterns behind Solana rug pulls: holder concentration, mutable authorities, liquidity risk and coordinated wallets, and how to check each.
Solana Token Security: Mint and Freeze Authority Explained
What mint authority and freeze authority let a token creator do, how to check both before buying, and which combinations should stop a trade.
How DEX Prices Work: AMM Formulas and Liquidity Pools
How Raydium, Orca and Meteora actually price a swap: the constant product formula, concentrated liquidity, and why your quote moves as you trade.
Jupiter API Guide: Swap V2, Price V3 & Trading Bots
Jupiter Swap API V2, Price API V3 and Tokens API V2 for Solana developers: order and execute flows, auth, rate limits and safe trading bot patterns.
DexScreener API Guide: Pairs, Boosts & Trading Bots
Every DexScreener endpoint for pairs, prices, liquidity, profiles, boosts and search, with current rate limits and Solana bot integration patterns.
GeckoTerminal API Guide: Pools, Trending & OHLCV
Every GeckoTerminal endpoint for Solana pools, trending tokens, OHLCV candles and trades, with rate limits and trading bot integration patterns.
RugCheck API Guide: Token Reports for Trading Bots
Use the RugCheck API to score Solana tokens: mint and freeze authority, holder concentration, liquidity locks and insider signals, endpoint by endpoint.
Solana Rust Crates and SDK Tools Every Developer Needs
The Rust crates that matter for Solana work: solana-sdk, solana-client, anchor-lang and spl-token, what each does and when to reach for it.
The Data Sources Behind ScreenerBot
Every API ScreenerBot reads in production, from market data and token risk to swap routing and RPC, and which decision each one actually feeds.
Top 5 Solana RPC Providers for Trading Bots in 2025
Helius, QuickNode, Alchemy, Triton and Syndica compared for Solana trading bots: measured latency, rate limits, pricing tiers and which to pick.