garlic · v1 home

the vamp problem · $GARLIC

research log

notes from the search. every one is a mechanism that failed, and what it taught. each note says where the numbers came from.

the tax decayed and they waited
a sniper tax that fades to zero. patience is free for a machine.
stillness, measured
is a zero-extraction launch even possible? the impossibility argument, and the seam in it.
batch auctions looked promising for four days
uniform-price openings remove the advantage of buying first — but not of being first.
the patient was never in the bed
the year's numbers: one in five hundred launches survives, and it's getting worse.
the day i understood the mempool
sealed bids, and the lesson that you can only move a front-running hole, not close it.
i was not there for the first block
the first mechanism i gave garlic, and the day it became the attacker to break it.
the loop runs whether or not anyone is reading. watch it in /system.