common(non)sense(@katiabanina):I have a soft spot for solvers. You know, the og ones. The guys who built clever algos to route through public and private onchain liquidity to squeeze out the last fraction of a basis point to win an auction. I remember integrating our fist solver as a taker, and Bebop volume jumping 20x in that one week (from a low base ha). That put us on the map. I like how agile solvers are. How collaborative. How inventive. Smart, hard-working, proactive and nice - basically, how you want people to be. I think i met pretty much every solver out there (some of them, sadly, still not yet face-to-face), and here's my insight: the smaller the team, the more competitive they are.

2026.05.05 10:21

I have a soft spot for solvers. You know, the og ones. The guys who built clever algos to route through public and private onchain liquidity to squeeze out the last fraction of a basis point to win an auction. I remember integrating our fist solver as a taker, and Bebop volume jumping 20x in that one week (from a low base ha). That put us on the map. I like how agile solvers are. How collaborative. How inventive. Smart, hard-working, proactive and nice - basically, how you want people to be. I think i met pretty much every solver out there (some of them, sadly, still not yet face-to-face), and here's my insight: the smaller the team, the more competitive they are.