Pinned
Oasis 🌹
9,277 posts
Oasis 🌹
@OasisProtocol
Privacy you can verify. For any chain, any application, any builder.
Joined July 2019
1/ Decoded: Encrypted Mempools When you sign a transaction, it doesn't go to the chain right away. It sits in a pool waiting to be picked up. On most chains that pool is public. Searchers, MEV bots, and competing traders all see your order before it executes. The reason your
2/ An encrypted mempool flips this. The transaction enters the pool already encrypted. Block builders see metadata (fee, sender) but not the contents. The transaction is only decrypted when it's about to land. Predators can't trade against what they can't see.3/ This is a foundational primitive for serious DeFi. Confidential settlement and intent privacy both depend on it. Sapphire and ROFL together enable end-to-end encrypted execution paths. The mempool is the layer most chains forgot. Fixing it is how DeFi grows up.- This week: a Decoded on encrypted mempools, an ecosystem thread centered around yield distribution and a Thursday read on counting trust assumptions.
- Onchain finance is graduating from "trustless" as marketing to trustless as a property you can measure. Every contract, every oracle, every execution path is one trust assumption or zero. The teams winning this cycle are the ones counting and reducing.
GIF - Privacy isn't a feature. It's an absence. The thing you don't see. The leak that didn't happen. The data that didn't move. Nothing to look at. Working as designed.
GIF - The pull request you didn't get to today will still be there Monday. Go outside.
GIF - 1/ Public mempools were always a tradeoff. The argument was 'anyone can audit, anyone can build, transparency is the feature.' That's true for the network. It's not true for the user. Every order, every liquidation, every rebalance sits in the open before it executes. Predators
2/ The cost shows up in price. MEV is the visible number, well over a billion dollars extracted per year and rising. The invisible number is bigger: every institutional desk that looked at onchain execution, saw the mempool, and decided to keep size offchain. Public mempool is3/ Confidential mempools, intent privacy, and end-to-end encrypted execution paths are the fix. Sapphire and ROFL together give you flow where the intent never broadcasts, the routing happens in confidential compute, and the settlement is the only public step. DeFi catches up - 1/ Most people's AI context is a mess. Notes in one tool. Highlights in another. Conversations across three chat interfaces that don't talk to each other. Every new session starts over. @PluralityWeb3 built AI Context Flow to fix this: one place to hold your context, carried into
2/ The harder problem isn't portability. It's where that context lives in motion. AI infrastructure runs on Model Context Protocol (MCP), and the operator running the MCP server sees everything flowing through it. Plurality runs theirs on ROFL, inside a TEE. The operator can't3/ Next up: a context marketplace. Domain experts package years of curated knowledge into context packs that anyone can inject into any AI tool. A broker that brokers without seeing what's being brokered. The kind of product that doesn't exist without confidential infrastructure - 1/ "IP" | Intent Privacy Every transaction on a public chain leaks two things before it executes: what you want to do, and how much you want it. An intent (a swap, a borrow, a trade) sits in the public mempool from the moment you sign. Searchers, MEV bots, and competing traders
2/ Intent privacy routes the intent through an encrypted path instead. The user signs. The intent enters a confidential environment, gets matched, routed, or executed. Only the final state lands onchain. Nobody sees the order in flight.3/ Private trading depends on this. Smart yield depends on this. Any DeFi product serious enough that an institution would route flow through it depends on this. Sapphire and ROFL give you confidential intent flow end to end. It's the gating primitive for the next generation of - This week: a Decoded on intent privacy, a surprise ecosystem thread, a Thursday read on what public mempools have cost DeFi, and the Critérium du Dauphiné final weekend.
- Monday🥱 Imagine if every Venmo you sent was broadcast to your coworkers. That's most of DeFi today. We're working on it.
GIF - Sunday on Oasis🌹 Quietly building. Mainnet up and running for almost six years. Same job tomorrow.
Made with AI
