Lumbridge
Joined January 2022
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Uniswap and Robinhood use TJAR
Now any team can use it too:
- Fees get converted into the token you want
- Goes straight to a treasury, burn, bridge, etc.
- Searchers compete to convert fees efficiently
- No infra needed, any chain
Built by yours truly
If you're interested in using TJAR, DM me
Alan Wu retweeted
TLDR:
We built token jar to handle the problem of collecting fees in a million different tokens across a ton of different deployments and needing to convert to just one thing as efficiently as possible: burned uni
Now we’re offering that tech to all of crypto, but it can be converted to whatever you want - a stablecoin in an exchange wallet, your project token in a multi-sig, Uniswap type burn, etc
Integrating is a no brainer if your project collects revenue in multiple tokens
New piece for @supercycleblog on prediction market indices. Thanks for having me!
Be sure to read @alanwu's piece on the @supercycleblog:
"An individual market can answer whether the Strait’s traffic goes back to normal this year. An index can tell you whether the Middle East is getting more stable.
Prediction markets price the events everyone’s watching.
Indices will answer the questions everyone’s asking."
We couldn't agree more.
supercycle.blog/p/prediction…
Excited to be back!
There’s a lot that goes into designing these markets. Looking forward to sharing 🤓
How does a UniswapX order actually get filled?
Alan Wu @alanwu, Protocol Engineer at @Uniswap, returns to ETHTaipei this September.
Alan works on UniswapX, with a focus on auction design and trade execution. After speaking at ETHTaipei 2025, he’s back to go deeper into the mechanics behind intent-based trading.
In “Life of a Fill: How Market Makers Work on UniswapX,” Alan will follow an order from discovery and pricing through competing quotes and atomic settlement, unpacking why some orders fill instantly while others linger, and what it actually takes to run a filler.
Join us at ETHTaipei 2026: luma.com/8z5ys4rl
Alan Wu retweeted
In less than 4 seconds, 44 unique makers on Polymarket lost $19k to 6 takers.
First trade: 1.44 seconds after LeBron's tweet
Crossed 50¢: 2.26 seconds
Reached 99¢: 3.98 seconds
First-come, first-served markets create zero-sum latency races that degrade long-term liquidity. This market structure is inherently taker-favored: makers must remove stale quotes before anyone else in the world can take them. Because they can be picked off during every major repricing event, they are forced to quote wider and provide less depth.
Exchanges want volume and to lead price discovery. But knowing LeBron chose Philadelphia four seconds earlier provides zero value to most users and imposes negative externalities on the traders creating the prices that observers consume.
Different market structures (batch auctions, maker-prioritized cancels) trade off marginally slower re-pricing during rare news events with deeper liquidity throughout the rest of the market.
Doing it the right way.
Incredibly excited for the launch of @TradePools!!
This rollout has been absolutely insane. Degens discovered earlier versions of the smart contracts and traded over $150m in trading volume before the UI even went live
This created a unique challenge where we had to update our site and indexing to support both the earlier test versions and the final versions of the contracts at the same time, which added some additional time to the launch
People have used uniswap as both a launchpad and launchpad infra for over 8 years. We're excited to be building alongside all the other launchpads to move the space forward
What most sets Pools.trade apart?
- no added launchpad fee, just the normal protocol fee that comes with all v4 pools. This makes the launch pool way better for traders, with total spreads far lower than most launchpads
- autocompounding liquidity (excited to bring this feature to normal Uniswap LPing as well)
- permanently locked liquidity for all launches
- two launch methods: instant launch works similar to other launchpads, and crowd launch simplifies what we built with CCA to create a fairer, more bundle resistant launch method
- deep integrations and distribution: Pools has day one support across uniswap web app, wallet, trading api, all third party trading api integrations, bitget, fomo, gmgn, okx wallet, etc, with more coming online rapidly
Have seen various takes claiming incorrect fee splits - to be clear the 0.25% LP fees autocompounds to the locked liquidity pool, it does not go to the uniswap team. This becomes 20% to the creator and 80% to the liquidity compounding mechanism
Uniswap Labs team has been cooking hard on this one but its still in beta. We intend to ship a constant stream of upgrades and improvements from here. So please share any feedback!!
Alan Wu retweeted
Introducing Vistadex Indices, powered by @adjacent___
Indices are the best way to follow what’s happening in the world.
Follow the most important real-world trends through clear benchmarks, starting with US Politics.
The latent demand for TRUTH finally has interfaces that deliver it
A truth machine visible to everyone is a genuine public good
We're watching people quietly choose truth over narrative
There are two distinct prediction market users: traders and observers.
Traders exhibit extreme power law dynamics. Over 50% of Polymarket volume is generated by 1,000 addresses.
Observers consume prices created by the traders. Demand for incentive-aligned information is in such high demand that prediction markets are now a top 1,000 site worldwide. The average visit duration is over 10 minutes across 5 market pages.
Cool to see @merklefruit expand on my piece in this direction
A lot of futarchy objections feel like Goodhart's Law in mechanism form
The "Cost to Flip" framing is interesting because once market outputs become binding, we need to reason about the cost of corruption, not just whether the market is "accurate"
Related to how chains converged to PoS bc adversarial environments need economic security
Futarchy needs clean specs so traders price policy effects instead of ambiguity. But once prices control decisions, the whole mechanism becomes an attack surface: metrics, liquidity, oracles, decision rules, and implementation details
against my odds today I hit a clutch 3 in a pickup game
then this 7th grader goes: “he cashed it like Kalshi”
bro what 😭
Alan Wu retweeted
props to @alanwu. this is one of the clearest pieces on where prediction markets actually go next
my top 3 takeaways (esp. for builders):
1. prediction markets scale when non-traders rely on them not when more degens show up
→ build for signal consumption, not just trading
2. the best markets wont sustain themselves, the price is a public good
→ you need intentional subsidies (fun markets funding useful ones)
3. prediction markets arent just probability engines
they’re about hedging + capital-backed truth
→ in an AI world, money > opinions
if you’re building:
focus on markets the world would actually use if they existed
worth reading the full piece 👇
Talking tomorrow at the Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research Forum about MEV taxes for UniswapX on PGA chains
@MaxResnick from Anza is also presenting on prop AMMs
Two different DEX designs. Should be a good one.
Tap in at 11 AM ET on Zoom: cber-forum.org/
Alan Wu retweeted
Permissionless liquidity sponsorship is a step in the right direction.
Will be keeping track of the short/medium-term equilibrium between platform vs public incentives, along with the second-order consequences of anyone being able to sponsor and capture incentives.
