Introduction

Venum is Solana execution infrastructure for builders. It provides the layer between raw RPC and your application — swap building, routing, MEV-protected submission, and real-time pool state.

What Venum Does

Every trading bot, wallet, Telegram bot, and dApp on Solana rebuilds the same painful stack:

1. DEX integration — Understanding 12+ DEX protocols, their account layouts, instruction formats
2. Route optimization — Finding the best pool for a given swap across all DEXes
3. Transaction building — Composing instructions, compute budgets, blockhash management
4. MEV-protected submission — Jito bundles, retry logic, rebroadcast
5. Real-time data — Pool state, price feeds, new pool detection

Venum handles all of this. You get composable TransactionInstruction[] that you can bundle with your own logic.

Venum vs Jupiter

	Venum	Jupiter API
Output	TransactionInstruction[] — compose with anything	Serialized TX blob — take it or leave it
Self-hostable	Yes (open-source SDK)	No
Rate limits	None (self-hosted) or generous (hosted)	Strict quotas
Pool state	Real-time via Geyser	Not available
Submission	Jito MEV-protected, built-in	Not included

Supported DEXes

DEX	Type	Protocol
Orca Whirlpool	Concentrated liquidity	CLMM
Raydium CLMM	Concentrated liquidity	CLMM
Raydium AMM V4	Constant product	AMM
Raydium CPMM	Constant product	AMM
Meteora DLMM	Dynamic liquidity	Bin-based
Meteora Dynamic	Constant product	Mercurial vaults
Meteora DAMM V2	Dynamic AMM	V2
PumpSwap	Constant product	pAMM
Phoenix	Order book	CLOB
Orca Token Swap	Constant product	Legacy
Saber	Stable swap	StableSwap
Numeraire	Stable swap	1bps fee

Architecture

Your App
    │
    ▼
Venum API (api.venum.dev)
    ├─ POST /v1/quote        → Best route across 12 DEXes
    ├─ POST /v1/swap/build   → Unsigned TX (you sign)
    └─ POST /v1/swap         → Submit via Jito (MEV-protected)
    │
    ▼
Execution Engine
    ├─ 12 DEX swap builders (local math, zero RPC for cached pools)
    ├─ Geyser gRPC pool state (real-time, sub-second)
    ├─ Pyth + Binance price feeds
    ├─ Jito bundle submission (5 regional endpoints)
    └─ Blockhash cache (2s refresh)