Engineering, from the bytecode

Start here · five to begin with, in order

1. 1.What is a DEX aggregator? Explained without the jargon — A plain-language guide: what a DEX is, why prices differ between them, what an aggregator does about it, and the one question to ask any aggregator — who computes the price you see?.
2. 2.What you pay on a swap: the pool’s fee, the protocol fee, and gas — line by line — Three costs, each with a different recipient: the fee each pool charges and keeps, the protocol fee of 28 basis points (0.28%) that goes to the treasuries, and the gas the network charges to run the transaction.
3. 3.Slippage, explained: why you got fewer tokens than the screen promised — What slippage actually is, why it happens, what a sandwich attack does to you, and what a real protection looks like — in plain language.
4. 4.The empty shop window: what phantom liquidity is, explained simply — A token can show a big pile of money to trade against and not actually have it — a shop window with an empty stockroom.
5. 5.What an audit means, what it does not, and what “verified” means on this site — An external audit is a reading of one version of the code by people who did not write it.

The BlazePhoenix Lexicon

Terminology coined by the whitepaper — the names are ours:

The Eightfold Dispatcher Ω

One quote function spanning eight AMM species (V2, V3, Algebra, Solidly, Curve stable, Curve crypto, Balancer, V4) — closed-form math where formulas are truth, ask-the-pool where replication could lie.

The Iron Law Φ

The minimum-output floor rate the Router re-derives ON-CHAIN at execution from measured amounts: callers may tighten it, never relax it; the rate is clamped so it never falls below 80%, and every route leg must deliver at least 80% of plan.

The Vitality Field Ψ

The pool-fitness field: swap-count EMA decaying over a ~65,536-block window, weighted by log-depth buckets, +25% bridge / +5% concentration bonuses.

Deterministic Derivation 𝒟

CREATE2 address derivation across eight venue shapes — a legitimate pool's address is computable before it exists, so impersonation becomes an address mismatch.

The Monoslot

A pool's entire working state packed into one 256-bit storage word, so scoring a candidate costs a single SLOAD instead of several.

The Self-Healing Registry

The venue registry that learns liquidity by executing it: every settled swap ticks or inserts a pool; vitality decay and Ψ-ranked eviction curate it with no keeper.

The Capital-Anchored Filter

The median filter anchored on the pool with the largest REAL tokenOut balance — truth votes with capital, not with existence.

The Exact Pass

Execution-grade requoting by revert-extraction: run the pool's real swap inside a call, revert, decode the deltas — the revert is not an error, it is the answer.

The One-Way Door

The irreversible renunciation split: every fund-touching and freeze power can be permanently sealed while grow-only registry powers survive.

The Master Conservation Identity

The single equation the staking book obeys, enforced per-transaction by the conserves guard: any transaction that would break it reverts, and anyone can read the result free at any block.

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