Notes from the deep end of execution
Technical pieces, honest competitor comparisons, and protocol design notes from the people writing the Rust.
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The state of institutional DeFi in 2026
Three years after the institutional-DeFi narrative started, what actually got built, what stalled, and where the surviving infrastructure is converging. An industry view from the people writing the Rust.
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A $100M SOL unwind, end-to-end: how the moby-market primitives compose
Walk through a realistic large-position unwind on Solana from intake to settlement — RFQ check, TWAP scheduling, privacy mode, route splitting, and post-trade reporting — using the actual primitives in the moby-market workspace.
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RFQ is a feature, not a product: Moby Market vs Hashflow
Both protocols offer request-for-quote at institutional sizes — but only one is built around RFQ alone. A look at where the EVM-first quote-streaming model wins, and where a Solana-native execution stack with privacy and algos pulls ahead.
Read post → - · privacy · zk · engineering
Privacy pools for whales: design notes from the moby-privacy crate
Why Moby Market chose on-chain zero-knowledge proofs over MPC for institutional privacy, and how Pedersen commitments, stealth addresses, and selective disclosure stack into something a compliance officer can sign off on.
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Engineering whale-grade TWAP and VWAP on Solana
How Moby Market's execution-algorithm crate shreds a nine-figure parent order into hundreds of timing-randomised child orders without becoming a pattern for the rest of the market to read.
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Solver competition done twice: Moby Market vs CoW Protocol
A side-by-side look at two intent-based execution stacks — CoW's batch auctions on Ethereum and Moby Market's commit-reveal solver network on Solana — and where each one's design choices pay off.
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