Where cooperation
is the dominant strategy.
A purpose-built blockchain that redirects MEV into cooperative protocol mechanics. The same actors extracting value on every other chain become the actors that secure and grow this one.
The Problem
MEV is an arms race nobody wins.
Maximal Extractable Value drains more than $1B annually from users, LPs, and protocols across EVM chains. Every chain treats it as a problem to suppress. Private mempools. Order-flow auctions. Encrypted transactions. Proposer-builder separation. None of it works. Suppression moves the extraction to a different layer and centralizes who is allowed to extract.
The most sophisticated actors on-chain are economically incentivized to be adversarial. Retail gets worse execution. Protocols leak value. The best engineers on-chain build weapons.
The Insight
Don't fight bots. Redirect them.
Bots are the most reliable economic actors on any chain. They will always do whatever pays the most. On every other chain, that target is other users. Construct makes cooperative participation the selfish-optimal play. The Nash equilibrium is full participation, not defection.
Same actors. Same skills. Same automation. Different target: protocol-spawned liquidity, not user transactions.
How It Works
Red Pools, in four steps.
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Protocol spawns a target
Ancilla, the on-chain deterministic scheduler, triggers a new AMM liquidity pool on CSwap funded from the protocol treasury.
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GPU gate
Participants solve a memory-hard GPU puzzle (cHash) to earn entry. Proof of real compute, not staked capital. Sybil splitting yields zero advantage.
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Coordinated drain
All gated participants execute against the pool simultaneously. Rewards scale with "damage dealt." Execution quality matters.
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Killing blow
A bonus reward goes to the final strike that depletes the pool. Urgency without sniping. Cooperation without dilution.
Non-participation is penalized. Sitting out costs Degrader Score, reducing future reward multipliers. The dominant strategy is always to show up.
The Anti-Dilution Flywheel
More participants. Bigger pools. Bigger rewards.
In Bitcoin mining, more participants means smaller individual rewards. That is competition. In Red Pools, more participants means bigger pools. The protocol scales rewards to match. Your rational move is always to participate, and to want others to participate too.
What Construct Owns
Novel mechanics, not novel slogans.
Cooperative MEV targets
Protocol-spawned, GPU-gated, deterministic. Bots earn more attacking Red Pools than attacking users.
Continuous commitment signal
Every contract bonds CNST fuel at deployment. Fuel drains on use. Project health is public, real-time, on-chain.
Settlement-layer DEX
Not a dApp deployed on top of Construct. Part of the chain itself. No third-party routing, no rent extraction.
Deterministic on-chain scheduler
Replaces cron servers, keeper networks, centralized automation. A contract, not a service.
Earned, non-transferable reputation
Sustained participation gates access to deeper protocol mechanics. Cannot be bought.
Participation is consensus
Phase 2 L1 consensus. Earning rewards and securing the network are the same act.
Not a whitepaper project
Production infrastructure, today.
The team operates blockchain infrastructure in production right now. A Rust-based MEV engine generating revenue in an uncontested market, and a multi-chain node footprint at a Tier-1 data center. The mechanism design behind Construct came from operating the adversarial game, not reading papers about it.