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8 Jun 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Arhat
Introduction Another interesting DeFi primitive being used to drive retail adoption. DeFi + elements of Prediction Markets. At its core, MAD Market is designed to promote Altcoin PvP (Player vs Player) battles, allowing users to stake their chosen to...
8 Apr 2024 5 minute read 2 comments Arhat
Recently, we saw Solana bombarded with trolls about failed transactions onchain. Before I start, it's important to understand that the issues Solana is facing are not unique to this blockchain. Every major blockchain platform has faced scalability a...
7 Jan 2024 15 minute read 0 comments Arhat
A few days ago, I went through the Starport whitepaper, the lending kernel built and designed by Astaria. I really liked reading through it. Mainly because it addresses one key problem with DeFi that I'm sure has been bugging a lot of us: Backwards C...
25 Dec 2023 7 minute read 1 comment Arhat
AMMs & composable swap protocols have led to exponential growth in decentralized trading activity. However, complex economic predicates encoded directly on public blockchains introduce subtle vulnerabilities. Adversaries exploit observable informatio...
20 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Arhat
Recently, bloXroutes announced that their MEV Relays would start rejecting blocks that contain transactions going to or coming from wallets on the OFAC sanction list. This means transactions involving these non-compliant wallets could potentially be...
7 Sep 2023 3 minute read 1 comment Arhat
Yesterday, Ameen Soleimani shared a new privacy paper exploring the concept of Privacy Pools, a novel smart contract-based privacy-enhancing protocol. Imagine a scenario where you prove that you've paid your taxes w/o revealing your exact income. In...
2 Sep 2023 8 minute read 2 comments Arhat
Solana has gained attention for its speed, low fees, and innovative blockchain architecture. However, as network usage grew in 2021-2022 and somewhat slowed down in 2023, users faced issues like periodic congestion and rising fees. Understanding Sola...
29 Aug 2023 7 minute read 3 comments Arhat
I recently dived deep into Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) after months of seeing DeFi protocols being taken advantage of. I wrote a complete deep dive here (https://mirror.xyz/0x1dE17B6c736bcd00895655a177535c2a33C6febA/D7OfvJfGGGndCa8aMtqD6NnOPtcUt2...
26 Aug 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Arhat
Base released a decentralization plan that would focus on introducing fraud proofs and diverse client software to make the chain censorship-resistant. To match the censorship resistance of layer-1 chains like Ethereum, layer-2 rollups need to minimi...
24 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Arhat
A few days ago, I wrote a short write-up on friend.tech and my thoughts on it initially. I went through the contract code in detail to understand what it actually does. And it is an Automated Market Maker in disguise. Read my detailed analysis here...
