2022: "DeFi will replace Wall Street!" 2023: "Why is everyone still using CEXes?" 2024: "What if we built faster chains?" 2025: @rise_chain delivers 3ms latency with Shreds. The CLOB takeover begins ↓

Order books need sequential execution. Unlike AMM swaps, order book trades MUST process sequentially. Each trade changes the state for the next. You can't parallelize this. That's why parallel EVM only delivers 2-6x improvements for CLOBs.

Shreds enters the chat: - 1ms processing during normal load - 60x faster confirmations than existing L2s - Economically secured preconfs Sub-blocks built for HFT.

RISE uses based sequencing for decentralization without bootstrapping new security. ✅ Leverages Ethereum validators ✅ Censorship resistance through rotating proposers ✅ Lower costs than independent consensus The trade-off? Geographic concentration for low latency.

Hot take: Geographic concentration of builders is acceptable. Traditional markets already operate with co-location. Sometimes pragmatism beats idealism.