Research: Deep Dives into Trading Systems & Market Microstructure
Cryptogrammar research documents market dynamics, execution mechanics, and infrastructure challenges that institutional traders face. Each piece combines theory with real-world data from live trading systems.
Featured Research
Execution & Slippage
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Why Large Trades Fail on DEX: The Liquidity Ceiling That Drives 24/7 Settlement — DEX hits a hard liquidity ceiling at $10M+ orders. 10 WETH loses 0.67% slippage, but 200K WETH loses 11.98% ($46.69M). This is why institutional traders route through OTC instead of risking execution on-chain.
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Big O Notation for DEX Execution — The algorithmic complexity of DEX trades and why slippage behaves as O(n²) rather than linear with order size.
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DEX Market Maker Strategy (Uniswap V3) — How professional market makers optimize capital efficiency and manage impermanent loss in concentrated liquidity pools.
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Liquidity Shock & Mean Reversion Trading — Exploiting the microstructure dynamics when large orders drain liquidity and create temporary price dislocations.
Infrastructure & Systems
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Building an Orderbook in C++ — From concept to production: designing low-latency matching engines for institutional trading.
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Order Execution Engine in C++ — The architecture and optimization techniques required for sub-millisecond order routing.
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Blockchain Data Observability with OpenTelemetry — Instrumenting on-chain systems for real-time monitoring and debugging in production trading environments.
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Kafka, Java, and IPv6 Connection Issues — Debugging a subtle infrastructure problem that affects distributed trading systems.
Market Microstructure & MEV
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MEV-Boost Relay Trade Profit Monitor — Understanding MEV extraction patterns on Ethereum and how sandwich attacks compound slippage.
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Crypto Regime Stationarity — Why traditional market regime detection fails in crypto and how to build robust statistical models for non-stationary markets.
Security & Exploits
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Hedgey Exploit: 6 Months of Undetected Drains — How a smart contract vulnerability persisted in production for half a year and what it reveals about security audit failures.
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Tornado Cash: Intelligent Demixer — Analyzing the state space of Tornado Cash deposits and recovering transaction relationships.
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Google Dorks for Smart Contract Security — Using semantic search to discover vulnerable patterns across Ethereum deployments.
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The End of EOAs: How RIP-7212 Changes Ethereum — Impact analysis of secp256r1 precompile adoption on account abstraction and execution patterns.
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Polygon BoR Halt (December 2025) — Post-mortem analysis of the consensus failure that halted validator consensus.
Game Theory & Economics
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Life, Human Behavior, and Fractals — Why fractional dimensions show up in market dynamics, neural networks, and social behavior.
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3D Geometry & Bharathnatyam Dance — An unexpected connection between classical dance notation and 3D coordinate systems.
Infrastructure & Data
- Wait a minute... There's research on Chaos Theory and the COVID-19 — Analyzing pandemic data through the lens of systems chaos and emergence.
How to Use This Research
For traders building execution systems: Start with Why Large Trades Fail on DEX and Big O Notation for DEX Execution to understand the execution frontier.
For protocol designers: Read DEX Market Maker Strategy (Uniswap V3) and Liquidity Shock & Mean Reversion Trading to understand how your design choices affect market participants.
For infrastructure engineers: Building an Orderbook in C++ and Order Execution Engine in C++ contain production patterns for low-latency systems.
For security researchers: The exploit analysis series (Hedgey, Tornado Cash, Smart Contract Patterns) shows how vulnerabilities emerge and persist.
Topics by Category
Trading & Markets
- Execution quality and slippage
- Market microstructure and MEV
- Regime detection and stationarity
- Liquidity dynamics and mean reversion
Systems & Infrastructure
- Low-latency orderbooks and engines
- Distributed systems and observability
- Blockchain data systems
- Production architecture patterns
Security & Analysis
- Smart contract vulnerabilities
- Exploit discovery and analysis
- Chain analysis and privacy
- Consensus mechanics
Theory
- Game theory applications
- Algorithmic complexity and trading
- Fractals and emergence
- Behavioral economics
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