Research Lab

Engineering the Edge of Possibility.

We don't guess. We measure. Deep-dive investigations into high-frequency trading, MEV infrastructure, and institutional DeFi.

Research Reports

RESEARCH October 2025

The Sub-Millisecond Signing Stack: Architectural Alpha in Institutional DeFi

In the zero-sum arena of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) and high-frequency crypto trading, infrastructure latency is the primary determinant of alpha. This report analyzes the physics of latency in distributed systems and details the architecture of Pulusu—a proprietary signing stack leveraging AWS Nitro Enclaves and kernel-bypass networking to achieve <45µs execution times.

HFT Signing Nitro Enclaves Latency
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RESEARCH December 2024

Antifragile MEV: Architectural Alpha in High-Contention Ethereum Networks

In the zero-sum arena of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) extraction, infrastructure reliability is often conflated with uptime. A robust system survives a chain reorganization; an antifragile system capitalizes on the resulting dislocation to capture alpha while competitors recover.

mev antifragile chaos-engineering ethereum
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Open Source Tools

Audit & Validation

Pre-flight checks for production Linux systems.

latency-audit

HFT kernel configuration validator

pip install latency-audit

Profiling & Observability

Low-overhead production profiling.

LatencyScope

eBPF profiler with <500ns overhead

pip install latencyscope

Lab Bench / Experiments

Kernel Bypass on AWS Metal

Published

Achieved deterministic <50µs RTT on `c6i.metal` using DPDK/AF_XDP.

Bundle Half-Life Metric

Published

New observability metric for MEV builders: time from submission to inclusion.

Enclave Signing for Order Flow

Published

Nitro Enclave-based bundle signing to prevent insider key extraction.

FPGA Market Data Feed

In Progress

Benchmarking Xilinx Alveo u50 for UDP parsing vs. C++ software.

Deep Dives

Structured engineering curriculums. Multi-part investigations into complex systems.

Linux Infrastructure Deep Dives

On-Chain Infrastructure: DeFi

On-Chain Infrastructure: MEV

Field Notes