Your arb bot spotted a 2.3% price difference between Jupiter and Drift. Gas is spiking, your transaction pool is scattered across three different wallet SDKs, and by the time you execute, the opportunity is gone. Trading bots need unified DeFi access with gas optimization and execution speed built in — not a collection of protocol-specific wrappers that break when you need them most. Why Multi-Protocol Access Matters for Trading Bots Modern DeFi opportunities don't respect protocol boundaries. A profitable trade might involve swapping on Jupiter, opening a leveraged position on Hyperliquid, and bridging profits back via Across — all within seconds. Your bot needs to think in strategies, not individual protocol calls. The infrastructure challenge is real: each DeFi protocol has its own SDK, gas estimation quirks, and failure modes. Jupiter's Jupiter API expects Solana transaction formatting, while Hyperliquid requires REST API calls with custom signing.…