Research

A cache that sits in front of an oracle isn't just a performance optimization — it's making a claim about what 'current' means, and that claim needs to be honest under load.

An intent describes a desired outcome, not a path. Something still has to pick between candidate paths — and that choice deserves to be explicit, not implicit in whichever solver responds first.

A transaction takes a shared state, applies the protocol's rules, and produces a new one. Global state, storage, gas, message calls, and atomicity are what that one function needs in order to mean anything.