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    Technical writing and research on self-custody execution infrastructure, latency, and on-chain trading.

    June 2026

    Self-custody for market makers: when the math actually pays off

    Trading is moving to venues where you hold your own keys by default. What slow signing costs there, and when buying the signing layer beats building it.

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    Coming soon

    Benchmarking signing latency: what p99.9 actually means for your fills

    Averages hide the fills that hurt. A look at tail latency, p50 vs p99 vs p99.9, and how we measure and publish sub-1ms signing under sustained load.

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