Writing
Writeups on MCP, AI agents, and Hyperliquid
Field notes from the studio: MCP servers, agent memory, prediction markets, and shipping chain interfaces.
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HIP-4 read paths: what the mainnet API actually returns
We probed Hyperliquid HIP-4 outcome markets on mainnet: coin encodings, asset ids, settlement fills and the builder-code path, with what the API really returns.
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How to build a secure airdrop claim portal
Anatomy of a token claim portal: eligibility and Merkle proofs, the security holes that bite on launch day, and surviving the traffic spike.
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Hyperliquid builder codes: earn fees on routed order flow
What a builder code is, how the fee is set and capped, how to attach it to orders and HIP-4 outcome markets, and the economics of building a routing front end.
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Track whale positions and liquidation clusters on Hyperliquid
What whale and liquidation data Hyperliquid exposes, how to read where forced selling stacks up, and how to turn it into alerts an agent can watch in real time.
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Hyperliquid funding rate API: funding, OI, predictions
Pull current, historical and predicted funding plus open interest from the Hyperliquid API, with the gotchas on sign and sampling that cost us a day.
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Do more MCP tools make your agent worse?
Tool schemas eat context and bias selection. Lessons from a 47-tool MCP server: naming, disambiguation, grouping, and when to split into two servers.
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MCP transports: local stdio vs remote HTTP, how to choose
Should an MCP server ship as a local stdio binary or a hosted HTTP endpoint? A decision matrix on data locality, auth, updates and install friction.
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How to give your AI agent persistent memory across sessions
Stateless agents forget everything between runs. The three ways to add persistent memory, and how to wire a local MCP memory server into Claude or Cursor.
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A liquidation bot that survives its first bad block
The happy path of a liquidation bot fits in a weekend. Production is everything that happens when the chain, the RPC, or your own state machine lies to you.
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Local-first memory beats a vector bill
Cloud RAG charges you rent on your own thoughts. A local index in SQLite and LanceDB, with embeddings from Ollama, is faster, private, and yours.
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What is MCP? A complete guide to Model Context Protocol
MCP is the open standard that lets any AI agent call external tools and data. How it works, why it matters, and what is worth building with it.
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Polymarket + Hyperliquid through one MCP: a practical guide
Expose live Polymarket markets, Hyperliquid funding, open interest and whale flow to Claude, Cursor or any tool-using LLM through one MCP server.
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Hello from Raviole Labs
Why we're building MCP servers, what we ship, and what we don't.
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Cross-venue divergence: the alpha that nobody runs manually
Three venues price the same event differently. The disagreement is the signal. Here's how PredMCP makes it tractable for an agent.
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