# Frenbot

> FrenBot+ — the fastest trading bot on Cardano. Real-time DEX pool monitoring, multi-wallet execution, and AI analytics across web and Discord. I owned latency-critical backend work in Rust and the real-time data pipeline.

Canonical page: https://www.ishannaik.com/projects/frenbot

_Fastest trading bot on Cardano_

- Category: Blockchain Development
- Client: RushLabs
- Role: Software Engineer (Backend, Rust)
- Year: 2025
- Duration: 9 months
- Live: https://fumble.frenbot.app
- Source: https://github.com/Ishannaik/FumbleChecker

## Overview

FrenBot+ is a production trading platform for the Cardano ecosystem — real-time liquidity-pool monitoring across major DEXes (Minswap, Splash, MuesliSwap, SundaeSwap, snek.fun, SaturnSwap), lightning-fast multi-wallet trade execution, and AI-powered analytics to surface opportunities and flag potential rug pulls. It ships as both a web app and a Discord bot.

I joined as a Software Engineer at RushLabs. I built the original Frenbot Discord bot — delivering sub-millisecond real-time Cardano alerts on pool and wallet activity — before the team expanded it into the full FrenBot+ trading platform. My work centered on backend performance — optimizing latency-critical components in Rust — and the infrastructure that fed them: provisioning and managing custom Cardano nodes and supporting services on VPS infrastructure, plus end-to-end DevOps for deployments, monitoring, and reliability.

I also built FumbleChecker, a public tool that calculates how much ADA a trader missed through poor DEX timing, on a framework-independent API with a Next.js frontend and real trading data from the DexHunter and Blockfrost APIs.

## Features

- **Sub-ms Discord Alerts**: Original Frenbot Discord bot delivering sub-millisecond real-time Cardano pool & wallet alerts
- **Real-time Pool Monitoring**: Live liquidity-pool tracking across Minswap, Splash, MuesliSwap, SundaeSwap, snek.fun and SaturnSwap
- **Multi-wallet Execution**: Lightning-fast trade execution from multiple wallets simultaneously
- **AI Rug Detection**: AI-powered analytics to flag potential rug pulls and surface trading opportunities
- **Rust Backend**: Latency-critical components optimized in Rust for real-time trading workloads
- **Custom Cardano Nodes**: Provisioned and managed Cardano nodes + supporting services on VPS infrastructure
- **Web + Discord**: Dual interfaces — a web app and a Discord bot with on-chain wallet alerts

## Technologies

Rust, TypeScript, Next.js, Cardano, Blockfrost API, DexHunter API, PostgreSQL, Linux/VPS

## Process

- **Onboarding** (2 weeks): Mapped the platform architecture and identified latency bottlenecks
- **Backend Optimization** (6 weeks): Rewrote latency-critical paths in Rust and tuned data flow
- **Infrastructure** (4 weeks): Stood up custom Cardano nodes and supporting services on VPS
- **Reliability** (Ongoing): Hardened deployments, monitoring, and uptime for production trading

## Related projects

- [Zap](https://www.ishannaik.com/projects/zap.md)
- [Cardano Node Infrastructure](https://www.ishannaik.com/projects/cardano-node.md)