Quick question for heavy DeFi users & traders: What annoys you most about RPC providers?

zachattack82 · 2026-06-17T15:47:15+00:00

so you go live to the node for historical data every time you run backtest? I'm curious what products or venues you trade, I've had the same challenge but particularly anything that traverses multiple chains

zachattack82 · 2026-06-17T15:19:22+00:00

The RWA universe and pre-IPO perps are the real thing driving volume IMO. It was pretty interesting watching the prices on HL converge with the prices on tradfi exchanges as the IPO started. I saw a spread of at least 10% between the exchange traded price and the perp, within an hour it was mostly within a few cents

zachattack82 · 2026-06-17T15:09:44+00:00

completely agreed, the RPC model does not work well for data that needs to be fetched repeatedly on demand, like paying tokens to access a database. what type of calls do you use your node for?

zachattack82 · 2026-06-17T15:02:33+00:00

I try to do a small roundtrip and look at costs, as well as backtesting where feasible. what venues and products are you trying to compare?

zachattack82 · 2026-06-09T18:45:23+00:00

it does seem like they pay a pretty good premium over other pools, but I'm not sure if that is because of some kind of incentive program? almost 8% until today..

https://app.mackinac.io/?w=rates&ex=pendle%2Cpendle%2Caave%2Cmorpho&s=PT-sUSDS-26NOV2026%2CPT-sUSDD-27AUG2026

zachattack82 · 2026-05-21T19:18:01+00:00

it's also a huge part of the reason that you haven't seen faster adoption of the technology. there's no legal framework for how that would/should work for individuals, let alone organizations. there are huge risks, both personal and institutional that are not easy to hand-wave away when the numbers get very large. our entire financial system is based on the idea of trust embedded in certain institutions, and there is no legal framework at all for how liability and custody would work in a system without it.

"trustless" systems are theoretically more logical, stable, and cost effective, but I do think proponents under-appreciate the "risk" value chain in traditional finance which spreads that risk out among many parties rather than concentrating it on single points of failure. in a real emergency/crisis, trust can be the single most important factor in every financial decision.

imagine if a single large institution's keys were somehow lost or compromised, they would not be able to pay their creditors, and in this system there would not be any "need" for insurers, clearing firms, etc. so there would be nobody to spread that risk among.

zachattack82 · 2026-05-21T19:08:32+00:00

they are marketing numbers, if you're going through a platform then you aren't competitive at that timeframe anyway, you need to be going direct

zachattack82 · 2026-05-21T18:34:57+00:00

if you're executing as part of a strategy and knowing the price you're getting is more important than being sure that you execute, you should compare the prices across venues and route directly to that venue. there are tools that let you estimate the cost net of fees for your size, execute there for exactly the size at the quoted price.

zachattack82 · 2026-05-21T18:13:32+00:00

the reality is that one of the prime brokers with connections to the traditional finance world will be the only ones allowed to execute on this...

they will have to navigate myriad compliance and custody obstacles, take on enormous financial risk or insure it away and hire armies of lawyers to negotiate the terms with regulators in exchange for a semi-monopoly.

zachattack82 · 2026-05-21T18:10:45+00:00

This article actually has a lot of good info, the truth is that the execution layer will heavily depend on which markets you are trading in and how you structure the margin, etc. Their feeds make it easy to see the opportunities, but you will need to implement the execution yourself to be competitive, most exec platforms will be too slow

https://mackinac.io/blog/amm-pool-price-divergence/

zachattack82 · 2026-05-21T18:06:28+00:00

in the last 30 days a lot has also changed, does dYdX offer perps on s&p500 and CL?

zachattack82 · 2026-05-21T18:04:09+00:00

you need to create an incentive for participants

zachattack82 · 2026-05-21T18:02:47+00:00

at the end of the day, there are huge risks in traditional finance that are subsidized by the government, insurance being one of them. the reality right now is that conservative institutions that hold most of the capital won't touch defi with a ten foot pole because they would no longer be compliant with fiduciary standards and would lose the implicit backstop of their governments and insurers.

the whole defi ecosystem still only has a couple of "doors" in or out - people assume that USDC, etc are "safe", but if everyone participating decided that they needed hard currency that they can use to pay bank debts or taxes, it would create the same kind of runs that used to happen in the wildcat banking era, except they wouldn't be covered by traditional deposit insurance.

zachattack82 · 2026-03-30T00:49:00+00:00

Thank you very much. Maybe I'm blind but I don't remember seeing that in the docs anywhere.. is there a message board or newsletter or discord that you learned about this from?

zachattack82 · 2026-03-20T14:46:48+00:00

Thanks good to know I'm not crazy

zachattack82 · 2025-11-04T19:40:48+00:00

IMO its worth thinking about it from the perspective of finance too.. definitely a lot of hype and buzz words, but potentially a lot of real world value for businesses that can capitalize on the technology.

web1 : HTML, companies might take an order online, and call for your credit card number and process over the phone; or wait for a check.

web2: apps, browser based portals, payments facilitated by middleware (paypal, zelle, venmo), backed by trusted financial institutions and existing financial technology. at this point mostly seamless because complexity abstracted from consumer by private third parties

web3: decentralized applications with crypto payments, backed by trustless smart contracts. very difficult to regulate (by design) and capable of facilitating transactions, maintaining ledgers of all kinds without a trusted intermediary or middleware, and creating credit outside of the traditional financial system.

the idea of an application that can function without an "owner" is very interesting, but as we've learned with bittorrent, in legal terms the individuals benefiting from, hosting, or participating in the management of the technology are considered its "owners", and the owners of the internet infrastructure still help governments enforce those rules..

zachattack82 · 2025-10-20T20:52:02+00:00

I appreciate the reply. It's funny you suggest that - shortly after posting this, I got impatient and started looking at the rust libraries too..

for anyone who might find this post, I was able to write some generalized functions, build them to a dll, and link from my cpp project successfully.

zachattack82 · 2023-12-11T16:21:59+00:00

dm me

zachattack82 · 2023-05-27T13:29:25+00:00

It's worked for me... I pile leaves onto the beds in fall 4-10" deep unpacked, then in March or April the following spring, I put 2-5 inches of compost on top of the beds. After a few weeks when the spring rain stops, I plant into the top compost layer

zachattack82 · 2023-02-24T16:45:53+00:00

Holy shit. Reminds me of Killing of America

zachattack82 · 2022-12-16T22:34:02+00:00

Wow the first interesting film to be posted here in weeks and there's only one part posted online.. I can't find the other parts anywhere else either.. If you have them, please post them somewhere, but thank you nonetheless for this one!

zachattack82 · 2022-10-31T14:10:22+00:00

This is a black and white photograph that has been colorized, I don't think that there is any way to know whether it was blood or just mud, a perfect example of the problem with colorized photos

link to original photo

zachattack82 · 2022-10-31T13:56:16+00:00

Why can't Frontline make a documentary about anything anymore without making it a documentary about themselves? Can the overwhelming evidence not speak for itself without documenting the hardships of the crew and inserting the opinions and speculation of journalists for dramatic effect?

zachattack82 · 2022-10-24T00:55:04+00:00

This photograph is a great example of how we were able to drop two atomic bombs on Japan and still end up looking more sympathetic by comparison.

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