In this episode of Credible Commitments I chat with Kubi Mensah CEO/Co-founder at Gattaca, the company behind Titan Builder. We discuss block building from first principles, Ethereum's evolving market microstructure featuring a dense discussion on Prop AMMs, and what takes to build a world class product-centric organization.
In this episode of Credible Commitments I chat with Kubi Mensah CEO/Co-founder at Gattaca, the company behind Titan Builder. We discuss block building from first principles, Ethereum's evolving market microstructure featuring a dense discussion on Prop AMMs, and what takes to build a world class product-centric organization.
(00:00) - Intro
(00:23) - Time at YC
(03:14) - Block building from first principles
(05:36) - Post merge block building
(09:48) - Service oriented edge
(12:03) - Technical excellence & counterparty obsession
(15:46) - Ethereum community
(18:31) - Tight product cycles
(21:43) - Sources of orderflow
(22:36) - PropAMMs
(26:22) - PropAMM research to product
(31:44) - Increase velocity of assets onchain
(33:35) - PropAMMs earnestly
(36:15) - Not exactly RFS, PAMM is quite novel
(37:55) - ACE and more expressivity
(39:55) - PropAMMs & L2s
(42:58) - Takers, routing, and a standardized interface
(44:47) - Leveraging LLMs
(48:10) - Agentic demand for blockspace
(50:07) - The Blockspace Forum