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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