John Whitton

Engineer • Architect • Leader

Trading Systems • Financial Infrastructure • DeFi • AI

Portfolio:
@john_whitton

[John Whitton @john_a_whitton]

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Over the last 18 months I've gone deep into trading systems, arbitrage infrastructure, market structure, and DeFi execution.

I built Solver and Salus, studied modern trading architectures, and documented the lessons learned.

The attached images are a small sample.

[John Whitton @john_a_whitton]

Quick shout out to @PropellerSwap.

Tycho played a major role in the research and development I've been doing over the last 18 months.

It dramatically lowered the barrier to experimentation, simulation, and strategy development.

Appreciate everything the team has built.
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[John Whitton @john_a_whitton]

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Over the last 18 months I've gone deep into trading systems, arbitrage infrastructure, market structure, and DeFi execution.

I built Solver and Salus, studied modern trading architectures, and documented the lessons learned.

The attached images are a small sample.

[John Whitton @john_a_whitton]

Portfolio:

https://t.co/MON8livTPd

[John Whitton @john_a_whitton]

Next up:

Building DeFi Trading and Arbitrage Systems

A deeper look at the architecture, lessons learned, mistakes, and future directions.

[John Whitton @john_a_whitton]

Thrilled to finally launch this!

Please help share this with anyone curious about solving and arbitrage of intent-based systems.
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[Jincubator @JincubatorX]

For 7 months, @john_a_whitton has been researching intent-based execution, solver coordination, and protocol-level arbitrage.

Today, we're launching https://t.co/89hq2eekjg and https://t.co/4BGACVMVUP to continue the conversation.

A summary 🧵

[PropellerHeads @PropellerSwap]

https://t.co/LRVKFmi1cL - see DEX liquidity in orderbook form – for the first time.

Tycho Orderbook simulates different trade amounts over all DEX pools and then charts the best routes in –– one orderbook.

For more on the theory, read: https://t.co/dftIcHpcdx

[CodeRabbit @coderabbitai]

AI-first pull request reviewer with context-aware feedback, line-by-line code suggestions, and real-time chat.

[James Prestwich @_prestwich]

For the last couple months @DaniPopes and I have been working on a total rewrite of the ethers-rs stack

We're incredibly proud to finally publish the work and announce Alloy: a new foundation for Ethereum's Rust ecosystem.

[Dawn Song @dawnsongtweets]

Really excited to announce our new MOOC on Zero Knowledge Proof, starting Jan 2023, with Shafi Goldwasser (Turing Award winner, co-inventor of ZKP) @danboneh @SuccinctJT @YupengZhang7 !
Sign up: https://t.co/HBdayPxj9S!
And let us know any suggestions for the class!

[John Whitton @john_a_whitton]

Working on incentive models, bonding and vesting, more to come on the [3,3] front
https://t.co/lcilzZsUpA

[KANGA @KangaFinance]

Here is the second draft of the EAVE Whitepaper (the web3 engine to power Kanga)
It now has all the Engine functionality completed (Trading, DeFi, Liquidity, NFT Metaverse)
https://t.co/wBldumLyQy

[David @Haerzchen]

Thank you @harmonyprotocol @lijiang2087 @john_a_whitton @AbrahamOne4all for this beautiful event

[John Whitton @john_a_whitton]

EAVE Everyone Adds Value Everywhere
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Happy 2022 to all the belEAVErs 🚀🚀🚀

[John Whitton @john_a_whitton]

My take on 2021 for crypto.

[John Whitton @john_a_whitton]

Exciting Stuff 😀

[KANGA @KangaFinance]

🎁Holiday Updates🎁
Testnet on Harmony: https://t.co/na00UjZ7QI
Kanga in 3 minutes: https://t.co/UBCn1ifNya
Deck: https://t.co/khpHvNp8tq
Vision (17min video): https://t.co/XKPIe8e21f
Harmony Launch Grant: https://t.co/bPlEpxmwv5
Target Q1: DeFi Engine launch on Harmony
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[John Whitton @john_a_whitton]

Some good holiday reading 💙

[Linda Xie @lindaxie]

My beginner's guides on DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and social tokens:

- DeFi (Jan 2020)
https://t.co/x7CuyRP9CW

- NFTs (Jan 2021)
https://t.co/1YJbdCCTcQ

- DAOs (Mar 2021)
https://t.co/SKiEHs33EO

- Social tokens (Nov 2021)
https://t.co/2neZyex1CZ