About SolSpread

What this desk covers

SolSpread writes about trade execution on Solana and nothing else. That means the pool fee taken from your input, the price impact your own size creates, the way a router divides an order across venues, the compute and priority costs of getting a transaction included, and the measurement discipline that tells you whether any change you made actually helped.

The scope is narrow on purpose. Execution is a subject where a small amount of arithmetic replaces a large amount of speculation, and where most of the confusion comes from three or four terms being used as synonyms. A desk that also covered token picking, market outlook and project reviews would inevitably dilute that into the same commentary everyone else publishes.

Who it is for

Three kinds of reader get the most out of it. Active traders who keep receiving worse fills than expected and want to know which component is responsible. Bot operators who need to size clips against pool depth and log what happened afterwards. Analysts who need precise definitions before comparing venues or paths, because a comparison without a fixed benchmark is not a comparison.

No prior knowledge of automated market makers is assumed, but the material does not avoid arithmetic. Where a formula is the shortest honest explanation, the formula appears, followed by a worked example with stated inputs.

How the work is produced

Every piece follows the same sequence: define the term precisely, show the math, then say what to do about it. The math is always reproducible. Where a table shows numbers, the pool sizes, fee tiers and order sizes that produced them are stated in the caption, so a reader who disagrees with the assumptions can substitute their own and redo the calculation.

Numbers on this site fall into exactly two categories. Protocol facts are constants anyone can verify: nine decimals on SOL, a slot target near 400 milliseconds, a base fee of 5,000 lamports per signature, a blockhash valid for 150 slots, the constant-product invariant. Illustrative arithmetic is everything else, and it is labelled as illustrative every time it appears.

What you will not find here

• Observed market statistics we did not produce and cannot verify.
• Performance claims, returns, win rates or profit case studies.
• Review scores, star ratings, testimonials or reader counts.
• Named authors with invented credentials or photographs.
• Predictions about prices, tokens or launches.

Everything is published under the byline of the SolSpread Desk. That is an editorial convention, not a claim about a large team: it means the desk takes responsibility for the material collectively rather than inventing a persona to sign it.

Commercial disclosure

This site carries a small number of links to third-party execution software. Those links are commercial placements. They are labelled in context, they are limited in number by editorial policy rather than by demand, and they do not change what an article says. No article recommends a tool as the answer to a problem the article itself defined, and no tool is described with performance figures this desk cannot verify.

Limits and corrections

Execution behaviour on a live chain changes as programs are upgraded, fee markets shift and venues gain or lose liquidity. Anything on this site describes mechanisms rather than current market conditions, and mechanisms occasionally change. If a page is wrong, we would rather fix it than defend it: the process for that is in the editorial policy, and the route to reach the desk is on the contact page.