Solana grid bot

Why Solana fits this strategy

Three properties, and they are the reason grid bots on Solana are worth running on-chain rather than on an exchange:

• Transaction fees are tiny.A grid's profit is the gap between two rungs minus the cost of trading between them. When the cost is a fraction of a cent, the rungs can be close together, which is what makes a range-bound market pay.
• Blocks are fast. A ladder that reacts within a block or two captures moves a slower chain would miss entirely.
• Liquidity is aggregated.Trades route through Jupiter, which searches across Solana's DEXes for the best path rather than pinning you to one pool. For a bot placing many small orders, routing quality compounds.

None of that changes what the strategy is or when it fails. Read how a grid actually behaves — including the trending market that beats it — before funding one.

How a vault works on Solana

You are not depositing with us. Creating a vault opens an on-chain account owned by our program and controlled by your wallet, and the program enforces the parts that matter:

• Only the owner can withdraw.The keeper's signer holds a separate, narrower authority; there is no instruction that lets it send your funds anywhere.
• The keeper can only trigger a swap, through a pinned router. Its job is to notice that price crossed a rung and route the trade the vault already authorised.
• Per-trade size, daily volume and slippage are capped on-chain — you can tighten them, and nothing can loosen them. The safety rails in detail.

Grid vaults are denominated against USDC, so your range is a plain dollar range. You pay a 0.20%platform fee on each executed trade plus a one-time on-chain fee at creation, which the app reads live from the contract that charges it and shows you before you sign. Gas for the vault's own trades is paid by our keeper, not out of your wallet — you need SOL for the transactions you sign yourself, which is creating the vault and moving funds in or out. No subscription: an idle vault costs nothing.

Which tokens you can trade

Solana's long tail is the point — most of what people actually want a bot for will never be listed on a centralised exchange. Any token Jupiter can route is tradeable, and the vault chooses its protection model from what is knowable about the price:

• Oracle-bound where a Pyth feed exists: the swap is checked against the feed and rejected if it disagrees. Feed coverage is a narrow set of majors today, and it is meant to grow — assume your token is on the other path unless it is one of them.
• Permissive otherwise: priced from the DEX, with tighter risk caps and a bounded band around your range instead of an oracle. The token is never refused — the blast radius is made smaller. Size those positions accordingly.

Grid, DCA, Accumulation and Glide (a TWAP that spreads one order over time) all run on Solana. What each strategy does.

What to weigh before you start

• A thin pool costs more than the fee saves. Cheap gas does not make a shallow market safe: the slippage cap will refuse bad fills, but a vault that keeps refusing is a vault pointed at the wrong pair.
• Long-tail tokens carry token-level risk the vault cannot cap — mint authority, liquidity that can be pulled, and pairs that simply stop trading. Non-custodial protects you from us, not from the asset.
• Our contracts have no published third-party audit yet. It is on the roadmap; until then, start small.
• RPC congestion delays trades, it does not skip them. The keeper retries; a rung crossed during a busy period is filled late rather than lost. How always-on execution works.

Starting a vault on Solana

1. Connect a Solana wallet — Phantom or Solflare. Wallet setup.
2. Hold the token and quote you want to trade, plus a little SOL for fees.
3. Choose the strategy, the pair, the range and your caps, then sign the creation transaction. Creating a vault.
4. The keeper trades the range until you pause or withdraw.

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