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...

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...

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...

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...

You may associate Aori with MEV, DeFi market making, maybe even with my ranting about off-chain orderbooks. But I wanted to set the record straight and detail what Aori is all about and my belief about what DeFi will look like over the next few years. This is a writeup about:What Aori is as a premiseHow to decentralize the Aori protocol without a blockchainOur progress to dateWhat we can build together with this new paradigm of settlement infrastructure.Aori is a Settlement ContractAoriV2.sol...

You may associate Aori with MEV, DeFi market making, maybe even with my ranting about off-chain orderbooks. But I wanted to set the record straight and detail what Aori is all about and my belief about what DeFi will look like over the next few years. This is a writeup about:What Aori is as a premiseHow to decentralize the Aori protocol without a blockchainOur progress to dateWhat we can build together with this new paradigm of settlement infrastructure.Aori is a Settlement ContractAoriV2.sol...

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...

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...

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...

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...