Your Router Sees The Trade First 🛣️
$JUP shipped Ultra v3 last October and it is the clearest picture of where Solana execution went, routing through its own quote desk, JupiterZ, which handles around $100M a day at zero slippage with sandwich protection it measures at 34 times the previous version.
That works because the order stops being a public broadcast and becomes a quote request, which on $SOL is now the shape of most serious DeFi execution.
The tradeoff moved rather than disappeared. The party filling you knows your size and your direction before anyone else does, every single time.
It beats being sandwiched by a stranger, and it still means one counterparty reads your intention as the price of getting a good fill.
Arcium moves the matching itself, splitting orders into fragments across a cluster of nodes where no single node can read a size or a side, and the match still comes out correct.
The fill settles on Solana as an ordinary public transaction, so the trade stays checkable exactly like any other.
That compute layer has been live on Mainnet Alpha since February 2 with more than 2.5 million computations, while sealing the transfer amount itself is C-SPL and that has not shipped.
Execution on Solana got faster by moving the reader closer to the trader, and the version worth watching is the one where there is no reader at all.
#DeFi #Solana
$JUP shipped Ultra v3 last October and it is the clearest picture of where Solana execution went, routing through its own quote desk, JupiterZ, which handles around $100M a day at zero slippage with sandwich protection it measures at 34 times the previous version.
That works because the order stops being a public broadcast and becomes a quote request, which on $SOL is now the shape of most serious DeFi execution.
The tradeoff moved rather than disappeared. The party filling you knows your size and your direction before anyone else does, every single time.
It beats being sandwiched by a stranger, and it still means one counterparty reads your intention as the price of getting a good fill.
Arcium moves the matching itself, splitting orders into fragments across a cluster of nodes where no single node can read a size or a side, and the match still comes out correct.
The fill settles on Solana as an ordinary public transaction, so the trade stays checkable exactly like any other.
That compute layer has been live on Mainnet Alpha since February 2 with more than 2.5 million computations, while sealing the transfer amount itself is C-SPL and that has not shipped.
Execution on Solana got faster by moving the reader closer to the trader, and the version worth watching is the one where there is no reader at all.
#DeFi #Solana
