Started Web3 seriously this year. Here’s the journey so far → Won $76,000 in grants & hackathons → Built & shipped Solana trading and MEV infrastructure (launchpad, SDKs, bots, indexers) → Open sourced multiple MEV tools & trackers → Earned 200 GitHub stars across OSS projects → Did freelance trading/MEV bot work for real users → Lost a lot of money trading perps learned risk the hard way → Turned those lessons into better infra & risk aware systems → Landed a Web3 infra role, building core execution and data infrastructure Solana didn’t just give me wins it gave me hard lessons, leverage, and belief. No IIT. No MIT. No fancy resume. Just consistent shipping, OSS, and building in public. Thank you @solana for an unreal 2025. 2026 will be even bigger. Your turn what’s your journey?

2. Shipping Rust all day on Solana 🦀

If you’ve ever parsed a Raydium swap and had to filter ⁠Program TokenkegQ…⁠ invoke [2] noise out of ⁠log_messages()⁠, I just shipped ⁠direct_log_messages()⁠ in ⁠yellowstone-vixen⁠. On mainnet, a SwapV2 call’s logs drop from 11 lines to 5 no CPI chatter, just your program’s own logs. @triton_one @solana_devs @Raydium @readylayerone @linuskendall

Pinocchio-native CPMM on Solana init, deposit, swap, withdraw. Mollusk run against the deployed ⁠.so⁠; math is byte-exact to ⁠x · y = k⁠ at every step: init: 22,851 CU deposit: 22,458 CU swap: 16,542 CU withdraw: 22,719 CU Devnet:4rP1EFZ8BPBprGPdcDtduidTPjwzXxLmGqvrxLmCiTQX⁠ NOTE :Not audited, not mainnet, repo soon

Got my PR merged into yellowstone-vixen. Jetstream now: -> Forwards real block entries (no more empty but counted blocks) -> Exits cleanly on SIGINT This makes it much easier to build reliable block stream consumers and monitoring on top of it. :)

Solana blockhashes expire after ~60s. For a trading bot that’s too long you want the tx to die in ~10s if it doesn’t land, not sit there executing on stale prices. Shipped a PR to solana-blockhash-cache fixing dead commitment config a backfiller stall, and documented the older-blockhash trick that lets you pick the expiry window.

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Was looking into arb bots on @solana found one of the craziest arbs I’ve seen $0.39 → $1.1M in <1s Two bots rinsed the same stale @MeteoraAG pool in consecutive blocks Bot 1: $0.16 → $403K Bot 2: $0.23 → $696K ~800ms apart Same pool. Different bots

Logs just disappear, no error. Took a while to track down. The log classifier was treating " invoke [" and " success" substrings inside Program log: payloads as real CPI events, so any program that logged user-controlled strings could truncate its own log_range. Fixed in #249. Same PR adds direct_log_messages() — CPI-aware iterator, only yields logs at your program’s invocation depth. If you’re parsing @Raydium / @pumpdotfun / @orca_so / @MeteoraAG swaps, use that one.⁠

merged into anza-xyz/jetstreamer again 🫡 thanks @Sam0xSol — wasn't much this time, but shipping is shipping. Solana protocol-level Rust, every week. github.com/anza-xyz/jetstrea…

Just saw a @solana searcher close a 3 leg arb for ~533 SOL net profit in one tx 24 SOL → 657 SOL and @jito_sol validator tip: 100 SOL @solana MEV printing🫡

Some notes from the Helsing episode on Corrode: 1. Rust is actually being used in safety-critical stuff (not just hype anymore) 2. predictability matters more than raw speed in real systems 3. A lot of the pain is infra hardware, not just code Rust helps reduce weird runtime bugs you’d normally chase forever feels like it’s slowly moving into robotics / ML infra too good reminder that “systems programming” is very real outside backend @rustlang @jonhoo corrode.dev/podcast/s06e02-h…

.@anza_xyz just shipped Agave v4.0 • Async tx verification → better performance • Networking blockstore upgrades • Runtime improvements (BPF, account access) • New agave unstable api flag Big picture: this sets the groundwork for Alpenglow (next-gen consensus, ~150ms finality) Not just an upgrade prep for what’s coming next @solana github.com/anza-xyz/agave/bl…

Reminder for myself: Always run cargo nightly fmt --all before making a PR.

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