Research @SolanaFndn PhD in Physics - Cosmology - Solana Views are my own.
TL;DR Current resource requests are poorly calibrated: consumed Cost Units are only ~20% of requested on aggregate; even transactions explicitly setting both limits overrequest by ~95k CU on average
This is one of the most difficult questions to answer. There is no meaningful way to lets everyone agree on when a transaction first became available to a leader. The only observable is when a tx is
Constellation starts with this key point in the abstract Constellation ensures that latency and ordering of transactions are fair, fostering a market structure in which users cannot be abused. So a
It's now clear that Fixed Batch Ordering (FBO) is going to be implemented under Constellation. We have measured all possible implications of FBO vs FCFS on market microstructure, so we all know how
Well, we are finally to the final arc. I wrote a lot about the scheduler wars and how this affects Solana market microstructure. I've analyzed lots of data and also produced some theoretical work
X is a place where anyone can post whatever they want, especially strong claims backed by very little real data. In the absence of proper peer review, the least we can do is present our βanalysesβ as
It's no secret that use of markouts to evaluate BAM vs Harmonic has sparkle a very noisy discussion. Are markouts good? Are markouts bad? Well, if you are looking for an answer here...there is a huge
These days were really crazy. Iβve been deeply obsessed with a simple question: how do we measure which scheduler is βbestβ, once we fix some conditions on agents? I saw a lot of claims based on very
Last week, a post made clear that MCP remains poorly explored. For many, this sounded incompatible with MCP itself. The truth is that, MCP is invoked to support mutually incompatible objectives.
Do we really need ProposerβBuilder Separation (PBS)? I have been thinking about this question for a while, and to be completely fair, it is a difficult one. Any simple βyes, we doβ or βno, we do notβ
I include this transaction because it benefits me. That one, I delay. I choose this ordering because it helps me to extract more value. I see the block before anyone else, perhaps I should sell this
Before diving more into this analysis, I'd like to thanks @heliuslabs for organizing the REDACTED hackathon, which inspired this research, and @ChorusOne for allowing me to spend time on it.
