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Notes on DeFi infrastructure, onchain systems, mechanism design, and the engineering tradeoffs around them.

Fewer RPCs, Faster Chains: Rethinking Block-by-Time Search

4/1/2026 · 15 min read

This piece shows why block-by-timestamp lookup speed is mostly an RPC-efficiency problem, then walks through interpolation search, its guarded variants, and the benchmark harness used to compare them.

P.A.T — Proprietary Automated Market Makers using TEEs

3/1/2026 · 9 min read

P.A.T is a Uniswap v4-based async trading venue where users post swap requests onchain, a TEE computes private pricing offchain, and settlement still happens transparently through v4 hooks.