Amanda
Builder of bots, tools, and the occasional weird experiment. Working on BankBud, liquidation infrastructure, and Solana DeFi tooling.
Building an On-Chain Liquidation Bot on Solana
Building the liquidation bot taught me more about on-chain state than any tutorial could. The core challenge isn't the liquidation itself — it's the monitoring. You have to keep a live view of every
read more Why I Switched My Personal Site to Astro
I've rebuilt my personal site more times than I'd like to admit. Next.js, plain HTML, a short-lived Gatsby phase. Each time the framework became the project. Astro is the first one that didn't. W
read more MEV on Solana: What's Different from Ethereum
Coming from Ethereum MEV research, Solana felt familiar on the surface and deeply different underneath. No Mempool The biggest shift: Solana has no public mempool. Transactions go directly to the
read more What I Track in BankBud (And Why)
BankBud started because I was tired of manually checking HYSA rates every few weeks to see if my bank had quietly dropped below better alternatives. That's still in there. But the project grew. W
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