Tinker Tailor Soldier… Solver?
In this piece I want to discuss solving, and my prediction of the future of what UX/Bridging will look like over the next few years. I think as someone actively engaged in solving for existing bridges, running strategies in this space, and having been talking to many founders working on bridges and intents platforms; I’ll hopefully have an interesting prediction for you, dear reader. Let’s first look at how interacting between chains works today.Bridges… Intents… Bridgetents?Today there exist...
Tinker Tailor Soldier… Solver?
In this piece I want to discuss solving, and my prediction of the future of what UX/Bridging will look like over the next few years. I think as someone actively engaged in solving for existing bridges, running strategies in this space, and having been talking to many founders working on bridges and intents platforms; I’ll hopefully have an interesting prediction for you, dear reader. Let’s first look at how interacting between chains works today.Bridges… Intents… Bridgetents?Today there exist...
Arbitrum I love you, but you’re bringing me down.
Recently Arbitrum’s DAO passed a vote to determine a feature of the new and upcoming sequencing replacement, named: Timeboost™️. It’s my job by the end of this article to plead for the Arbitrum DAO and team to reconsider their implementation of Timeboost™️, but I likely know this is likely a fool’s errand. There are a few major issues I see, both with the greedy and shortsighted rationale for pushing it through quietly and quickly, as well as the likely catastrophic effects it will have on us...
Arbitrum I love you, but you’re bringing me down.
Recently Arbitrum’s DAO passed a vote to determine a feature of the new and upcoming sequencing replacement, named: Timeboost™️. It’s my job by the end of this article to plead for the Arbitrum DAO and team to reconsider their implementation of Timeboost™️, but I likely know this is likely a fool’s errand. There are a few major issues I see, both with the greedy and shortsighted rationale for pushing it through quietly and quickly, as well as the likely catastrophic effects it will have on us...
Go Sequence Yourself
Is there anything more cucked than letting someone ELSE sequence YOUR transactions? There was a thread recently I enjoyed reading because it validated my opinions (that should be how you read everything, of course):So:Rollups should decentralizeRollups are [redacted in the brain] and or/lying, don’t know how (I wont force anyone to read Toghrul, that might be considered a war crime in some states)Building a centralized Rollup and trying to “Decentralize” is impossible, whether or not you ACTU...
Go Sequence Yourself
Is there anything more cucked than letting someone ELSE sequence YOUR transactions? There was a thread recently I enjoyed reading because it validated my opinions (that should be how you read everything, of course):So:Rollups should decentralizeRollups are [redacted in the brain] and or/lying, don’t know how (I wont force anyone to read Toghrul, that might be considered a war crime in some states)Building a centralized Rollup and trying to “Decentralize” is impossible, whether or not you ACTU...
There Is Nothing New Under The Sun
Why searchers and solvers are a temporary phenomenon… Let’s start this article off with a simple analysis of what solvers and searchers do today, and where they’ll have to go, or else be like the Dinosaurs….wait til you see what searcher nuggets look like…Solvers/Searchers Solving Solutions SimultaneouslySolvers today fall into two general categories.Same chain auction fulfillersCross chain auction fulfillersSearchers fall into the following categories: https://x.com/joshuagunnn/status/182208...
There Is Nothing New Under The Sun
Why searchers and solvers are a temporary phenomenon… Let’s start this article off with a simple analysis of what solvers and searchers do today, and where they’ll have to go, or else be like the Dinosaurs….wait til you see what searcher nuggets look like…Solvers/Searchers Solving Solutions SimultaneouslySolvers today fall into two general categories.Same chain auction fulfillersCross chain auction fulfillersSearchers fall into the following categories: https://x.com/joshuagunnn/status/182208...
Blockchains are BAD (for execution)!
The only way to be based is to be sequenced… wait I think I got that backwards…Propagation without ConsensusI touched in last mirror on a concept known as “Competitive Based Sequencing.” Let’s expand on that here and talk more about how we can leverage blockchains as dedicated data availability and transaction sequencers. This is all in a series on Aori, Based Sequencing, and how we can build apps in the future that without using auctions minimize MEV leakage and dead weight loss. When a base...
Blockchains are BAD (for execution)!
The only way to be based is to be sequenced… wait I think I got that backwards…Propagation without ConsensusI touched in last mirror on a concept known as “Competitive Based Sequencing.” Let’s expand on that here and talk more about how we can leverage blockchains as dedicated data availability and transaction sequencers. This is all in a series on Aori, Based Sequencing, and how we can build apps in the future that without using auctions minimize MEV leakage and dead weight loss. When a base...
