Solving and Arbitrage Research

Overview

Work in 2025 on Solving, Arbitrage and Indexing using Tycho, Intents using ERC-7683, EIP-712, Compactx and Uniswap V4 Hooks. Development can be found in the github organization jincubator.

Abstract

Liquidity Fragmentation and Capital Efficiency are areas that can be optimized in Blockchain protocols, with the emergence of Multiple L2 Chains and a shift towards intent-based architectures. There is a greater need than ever for a settlement layer to balance provided liquidity.

This is an opinionated architecture for an intent based solving protocol which facilitates single and multichain solving of intents. Intents can be solved on a single chain without provisioning up front capital as we arbiters can confirm mandates have been met by solvers at execution time, thus solvers may use the swappers locked funds for execution.

Goals

Key Goals for this design include

Intent Based Architecture to improve execution
Ability for Solvers to execute fills without needing to provide upfront capital

Future work includes

Capital Efficient Liquidity Provisioning including rehypothecation
Improved Price Discover via the use of Oracles and external services
Incorporating BackRunning of Transactions into Protocols such as Uniswap V4 via hooks