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Overview

t+ is a decentralized brokerage that enables optimal execution of any financial intention (trade, loan, whatever - any asset), by decoupling intent confirmation and settlement.

t+ works by allowing market makers to fill and pre-confirm user intents using an offchain orderbook - then hold the unsettled intent in inventory until they identify optimal settlement conditions and strategy.

At a high level, user interactions flow as follows:

1. Users send intents to an orderbook ran inside a trusted execution environment (TEE).
2. When an intent is filled, it’s pre-settled at the t+ layer. The filled intent is added to the market makers t+ inventory, and the user’s inventory is credited with the funds the market maker committed to procuring for them. The user can continue submitting intents with these pre-settled funds or withdraw.
3. When they believe it’s optimal, the maker settles the intent using whatever venue they wish. They can use any chain, any dex, any builder. Importantly, the market maker does not have to hold funds on the chain they’re settling on, they can perform the settlement using t+ deposits.

The below diagram illustrates this interaction, as well as how it decouples intent confirmation and settlement.

Why is this valuable?

The reason this decoupling creates value is twofold.

First, optimal confirmation and settlement require distinct properties that aren’t possible when the two are intertwined.

t+ Confirmations Optimize

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Speed

• Users are finished with their order in under 20 ms

• A faster confirmation environment leads to better prices for users

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Privacy

• Private quotes can lead to better prices for users through improved bidding truthfulness

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• Private orders and inventories prevent frontrunning (or being exploited in any other way due to information leaks) </aside>

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Minimal Inventory Requirements

• t+ does not require makers to post margin to quote. This allows them to quote across as many pairs as they want without increasing their capital costs. The market makers margin is checked upon trade match, and the trade is rejected if the margin check fails (the market maker will be penalized)

• Low inventory requirements reduce hedging and capital costs which leads to better prices for users

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• Cross-margining capabilities with market maker exchange and custody accounts removes the requirement for them to store any assets in t+, lowering their custody risk. </aside>

t+ Settlements Optimize

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Flexibility

• Flexibility in settlement domain allows t+ to support any on-chain financial use case expressible as an intent. All assets and financial interactions are available out of the box since we can settle your intent using any venue or even privately. This also means t+’s product offering expands at the same rate as the DeFi ecosystem

• Flexibility in settlement time and domain allows market makers to optimize for liquidity availability leading to better prices for users. The ability to partially settle intents is helpful here too

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• Flexibility in settlement time allows market makers to batch settlements together to minimize gas costs which leads to better prices for users

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We actually have some hard metrics for this one. Below is an estimate of on-chain traders savings if they used t+ instead of a DEX