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The Mempool Is Dead. Fairness Is Now Mandatory.

Front-running isn't a technical weakness in DeFi, it's a structural imbalance rooted in the visible mempool. Whales pay higher gas fees on chains like $ETH to cut the line, extracting value from your trades. $INJ is fundamentally changing this dynamic.

Instead of relying on economic prioritization—who pays more—Injective enforces temporal fairness using cryptographic timing. When an order is submitted, it is encrypted. You send only a commitment to the network. Simultaneously, your device must compute a Verifiable Delay Function (VDF)—a mandatory, fixed-duration process that cannot be accelerated by specialized hardware.

Until that time elapses, the order remains hidden. This mechanism ensures every single order is delayed equally, rendering fee prioritization irrelevant. By integrating this VDF with a Frequent Batch Auction model, all transactions arriving within the window are matched at a single clearing price. This is a profound philosophical shift: fairness is not optional, it is mathematically guaranteed. Traders can now focus entirely on market movement instead of network manipulation.

This is not financial advice. Do your own research.
#Injective #DeFi #Protocol #VDF #Crypto
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DeFi’s Biggest Scam Is Over. This Is How.

Front-running isn't a technical flaw in DeFi; it’s a structural imbalance built into the open mempool. For years, sophisticated bots and whales have exploited this visibility, paying higher gas fees to cut the line and extract value from your pending trades. It is the silent tax on decentralized trading. $INJ has finally engineered the kill switch.

They didn't try to fix the mempool; they redefined time within the protocol itself. When you submit an order on Injective, the details are encrypted—a 'hidden commitment.' Crucially, your device must then compute a Verifiable Delay Function (VDF). This computation is mandatory, sequential, and cannot be bypassed by faster hardware or higher fees. It enforces a fixed, cryptographic delay.

Only once the VDF proof is complete can the order be revealed. Because every participant must honor this exact time constraint, fee-based prioritization becomes irrelevant. All orders that complete their proof within the same batch window are matched at a single clearing price. This is fairness enforced mathematically, not economically. It guarantees that traders can focus on market analysis instead of fighting network manipulation. As my friend noted when I explained the VDF on a napkin: "Fairness isn't optional here—it’s baked in."

This is not financial advice.
#Injective #DeFi #VDF #Crypto
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#Ethereum - researcher under the nickname malik672 proposed a mechanism for forming blocks Decentralized Random Block Proposal to combat centralization and MEV in the second largest cryptocurrency network.
🟢 According to his idea, clients like #Geth and #Nethermind use a function similar to Verifiable Delay Function (#VDF ) at validators to randomly select transactions from the local mempool. Then participants simultaneously broadcast the collected block to validators, who filter out invalid transactions and calculate the hash.
🟢 The expert believes that due to the random selection of transactions, MEV manipulation at the block level will become impossible — no one knows which operations will be included in the set and cannot influence their order.
🟢 Moreover, such a mechanism is more resistant to #DDoSAttack — "spam" is evenly distributed across the mempool, without overloading individual nodes.
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