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The block time of 12 seconds of 12 seconds has long been a bottleneck for traders and daps that chases the speed of high thorough chains such as Solana or the UX of centralized exchanges. But a new system called Tool (Trustless OrderFlow Operations Layer) wants to change that and do it without changing Ethereum itself.
Invoated as a “middleware” solution, tools each cuts 12 seconds Ethereum block into 12 mini-rounds of a second, each with a sealed bid auction for transaction version. This approach promises trade confirmations of Subsecond on Ethereum-Minnet-not Rollups or Sidechains and without changes to the protocol.
The tool team says that the system is designed to process the OFF-chain ordering current to offer a faster and cheaper version without jeopardizing Ethereum’s Mainnet security or decentralization.
How it works
In the core of Tool is a network of trusted implementation environments (T -pieces) -Secure hardware and claves that are used to process the order current privately. When you submit a transaction via a Tool-Bonge RPC, it introduces a sealed auction in which seekers compete to record your trade. If your transaction wins, you will receive an execution obligation of a second, even before the transaction touches the chain.
“We maintain the rules for the privacy of transactions and transaction processing with T -pieces,” Pseudonymous founder of tool developer NuConstruct, 0Xprincess, told Blockworks. They added that “we keep the network live by opening it for all participants who are naturally stimulated to support it: arbitration visits, Soles, RPC providers, DEX traders and so on.”
Tool is not dependent on cutting or expanding to enforce behavior, as a self -layer or symbiotic AVS would do. The reasoning, according to the team:
“The profit of attackers and the loss of users for [privacy or fair sequencing] Attacking cannot be estimated, and so it cannot be enforced by cutting a meaningful amount of collateral. “
What to expect
Some can be wary that tool sets considerable faith in its own T pieces. If a vulnerability Enclave data leaks, the guarantees regarding privacy and honest ordering can disappear. However, it is important to note that NuConstruct Intel TDX (Trust Domain Extensions) uses, not the older SGX. TDX offers stronger security guarantees and insulation, which reduces some of the risks associated with SGX.
In the unlikely event of a hardware compromise-that both a zero-day vulnerability and physical access to the T-pieces would require the team that would remain resilient. Tool’s permissionless and self-adjustment of the P2P earth, combined with proactive defense mechanisms, ensures that the network can continue to protect user transactions according to 0XPrincess.
The team also claims that extra economic mechanisms such as Slashing would not help here – and just new participants would port.
There is also the issue of decentralization: T -pieces are nowadays usually organized on centralized cloud providers. And the fast confirmations of the tools only work when validators sign up.
But the team says that tool is still better than alternatives on this score, and was built “with the first principles of Ethereum in mind.”
“Tool is intended to be censorship resistant and to have an unparalleled liveliness properties due to a fully permissionless peer-to-peer network,” said 0xrincess.
And for users – portfolios and dapps – the UX lift is minimal: “Offing in tool is just a matter of changing an RPC ending point,” they said.
It can be even more censorship resistant that the existing Ethereum Roadmap’s Proposal-Builderscheiding (PBS), 0xprincess notes: “In the current PBS design are transactions [gatekept] By builders and relay, and if a validator wants to receive high value blocks, it has no choice but to receive blocks from those parties. “