Move this network's entry on Paradigm's AMM fee challenge (paradigm.xyz/puzzles/amm; simulator github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @ 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704) toward 1st. Ours is NP2, 518.83 (39th); 10th is 524.66, 1st 528.40. NP2 = TWO (code of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd) with NP's block (code of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5, from // Interior retail routing to uint256 tradeRatio =, exclusive) inserted before TWO's uint256 tradeRatio =; sha256 51f1c1a9…, 526.1156 on seeds 0..999. Local paired gains transfer to the board (verified within 1 se), so measure paired gains vs NP2: top 10 needs +5.8, 1st +9.6. Constants are tuned out; new mechanisms are needed.

Method (Linux x86_64): clone the simulator into your workspace (never /tmp), save the script below as scratch/setup.sh, run sh scratch/setup.sh once from the checkout root, prefix later commands with . scratch/env.sh && ; on BLOCKED or failure return blocked={step,error}, n 0. CH on seeds 0..999 must give 525.525882178. Pair via amm_sim_rs.run_batch with MatchRunner._build_configs's draws (default_rng(seed): size, rate, sigma; price seed=seed, retail seed+1). Tune on 10000..99999; confirm once vs NP2 on a fresh block from 2000000 up (>=2,000 seeds), never reused. Return code, sha256, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst}.

set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx

echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh

[ "$(uname -sm)" = "Linux x86_64" ]&&[ -e /proc/self/exe ]||{ echo BLOCKED platform;exit 3;}

command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;}

cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;}

command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;}

uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin

maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml

amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol

The answer

Paradigm AMM fee challenge: lifting NP2 — goal write-up

Goal: move this network's entry (NP2, board 518.83, 39th) on Paradigm's AMM fee challenge toward 1st (528.40; 10th is 524.66). Paired local gains over NP2 transfer to the board, so the targets were +5.8 (top 10) and +9.6 (1st) over NP2.

Outcome in one line. The best legal strategy the run produced, B+S, measures +0.7355 ± 0.0175 over NP2 on 2,000 fresh seeds (one copy). That is about 519.6 on the board, still outside the top 20. The run did not reach +5.8. It did establish, with an oracle experiment, that no estimator improvement inside NP2's fee family can: a strategy fed the true fair price and re-tuned is worth only +1.19 ± 0.05 over NP2. The leaders use a different fee rule, and designing one is the first task for the next run.

The goal built no code repository: trunk is null in the goal state, and every piece of code lives in an item result. Hashes and sources are given for each file below. Ten episodes ran, 26 batches, 99 of 400 items used.

1. Best Strategy.sol: B+S

Source: ep9-single/onlys-a (handed as b25-onlys-a). The code below is the item's code field byte for byte (14,240 bytes, trailing LF included).

Field	Value
SHA-256 of the file	`a9830b417dd43806c144e8b4a217cda1317850bb52578b18a3237307cf8dfa16`
Built on	B = `ep7-stack/stack-b`, SHA-256 `218426004abed3b6cb69f4ef133fea8e4789ddbeae37bd11e94e5ffc5f2a77cb`, source at `https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/5839483d4df69854030fd68b224659b379af881cd229df40a8bab825c2fa7db1`
Plus	S = the silence correction of `ep5-mech/silence-a`, re-implemented from its description (no constant tuned)
Compiler (simulator default)	solc 0.8.24, optimizer 200 runs, viaIR, Paris; `amm-match validate` passed
Paired vs NP2, fresh seeds 3030000..3031999	n 2000, mean_diff +0.73554, se 0.017509
Paired vs B, same seeds	n 2000, mean_diff +0.28115, se 0.015823
Mean edges on the block	Strategy 527.764, NP2 527.029, B 527.483
Worst five seeds (candidate − NP2)	3030453 −4.629; 3030155 −2.741; 3030176 −2.644; 3031104 −1.682; 3031289 −1.681
Second copy	`onlys-b` was blocked at setup (its host refused the toolchain install), so B+S has one valid fresh-seed measurement

Measurement (every number in this report unless marked otherwise): each strategy runs separately against the simulator's compiled 30 bps VanillaStrategy on identical seed configs (default_rng(seed) draws size U(19,21), rate U(0.6,1.0), sigma U(0.000882,0.001008); build_config(seed=seed, …); price seed = seed, retail seed = seed+1; 20 seeds per run_batch call, 8 workers); d = edge(candidate) − edge(NP2) per seed; se = sd(ddof=1)/√n. Calibration: CH (ChengHua926/amm-challenge Strategy.sol @ d34a5199) = 525.5258821780834 and NP2 = 526.1155722459862 on seeds 0..999, reproduced by every valid item. Simulator: benedictbrady/amm-challenge @ 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704.

What the file does, in words:

NP2's slow estimator and fee mapping are untouched. pHat (EMA of fee-implied post-trade spot, alpha 0.27 first print / 0.06 later / 0.12 same-direction second), sigmaHat, lambdaHat, sizeHat, actEma, toxEma, dirState skew, aligned-trade boost, tail compression and the NP 90/10 normalizer blend are exactly NP2's.
B adds a fast second estimate (slots 13–15) used only for the stale shift. On a step's first print it computes a heuristic P(arb) from the innovation relative to a variance state (grown by sigmaHat²·elapsed through silence, capped), the 1.22σ flag, trade ratio and silence, and updates with alpha = P·0.6 + (1−P)·0.08; later prints update it only in the first print's direction (0.06, and a 0.1 normalizer observation when feeUsed > 30 bps). The stale/attract shift is computed from staleHat = 0.7·pHat + 0.3·fastHat instead of pHat.
S adds the silence correction to the slow pHat (slot 16). Slot 16 stores our post-trade spot. On the first print after g = min(elapsed−1, 4) ≥ 1 silent steps, the price must have stayed inside the no-arb band [s(1−bid), s/(1−ask)] quoted after the last print, so pHat moves toward that band's centre by w = 1 − 0.925^g before the slow innovation, and that print's slow alpha and gate are scaled by 1 − 0.30w. The fast estimator is not touched. (Writing slot 16 in afterInitialize ran the 250k init gas out; it is left zero and falls back to pHat until the first trade.)

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.24;

import {AMMStrategyBase} from "./AMMStrategyBase.sol";
import {TradeInfo} from "./IAMMStrategy.sol";

contract Strategy is AMMStrategyBase {
    uint256 constant ELAPSED_CAP = 8;
    uint256 constant SIGNAL_THRESHOLD = WAD / 650;
    uint256 constant DIR_DECAY = 750000000000000000;
    uint256 constant ACT_DECAY = 530000000000000000;
    uint256 constant SIZE_DECAY = 530000000000000000;
    uint256 constant TOX_DECAY = 910000000000000000;
    uint256 constant SIGMA_DECAY = 690000000000000000;
    uint256 constant LAMBDA_DECAY = 990000000000000000;
    uint256 constant SIZE_BLEND_DECAY = 828000000000000000;
    uint256 constant TOX_BLEND_DECAY = 51000000000000000;
    uint256 constant ACT_BLEND_DECAY = 985000000000000000;
    uint256 constant PHAT_ALPHA = 270000000000000000;
    uint256 constant PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL = 60000000000000000;
    uint256 constant PHAT_ALPHA_SAME = 120000000000000000;
    uint256 constant REVERT_U = 0;
    uint256 constant DIR_IMPACT_MULT = 4;
    uint256 constant GATE_SIGMA_MULT = 7200000000000000000;
    uint256 constant MIN_GATE = 30000000000000000;
    uint256 constant TRADE_TOX_BOOST = 3500 * BPS;
    uint256 constant STALE_ATTRACT_FRAC = 1050000000000000000;
    uint256 constant RET_CAP = WAD / 35;
    uint256 constant TOX_CAP = WAD / 5;
    uint256 constant TRADE_RATIO_CAP = WAD / 5;
    uint256 constant LAMBDA_CAP = 1820000000000000000;
    uint256 constant STEP_COUNT_CAP = 64;
    uint256 constant BASE_FEE = 4 * BPS;
    uint256 constant SIGMA_COEF = 200000000000000000;
    uint256 constant LAMBDA_COEF = 12 * BPS;
    uint256 constant FLOW_SIZE_COEF = 4842 * BPS;
    uint256 constant TOX_COEF = 300 * BPS;
    uint256 constant TOX_QUAD_COEF = 15000 * BPS;
    uint256 constant ACT_COEF = 91843 * BPS;
    uint256 constant DIR_COEF = 20 * BPS;
    uint256 constant DIR_TOX_COEF = 100 * BPS;
    uint256 constant STALE_DIR_COEF = 6850 * BPS;
    uint256 constant SIGMA_TOX_COEF = 500 * BPS;
    uint256 constant TAIL_KNEE = 600 * BPS;
    uint256 constant TAIL_SLOPE_PROTECT = 930000000000000000;
    uint256 constant TAIL_SLOPE_ATTRACT = 850000000000000000;

    function afterInitialize(uint256 initialX, uint256 initialY) external override returns (uint256, uint256) {
        slots[0] = BASE_FEE; slots[1] = BASE_FEE; slots[2] = 0; slots[3] = WAD; slots[4] = 0;
        slots[5] = initialX > 0 ? wdiv(initialY, initialX) : 100 * WAD;
        slots[6] = 950000000000000; slots[7] = 800000000000000000; slots[8] = 2000000000000000;
        slots[13] = 902500000000; slots[14] = slots[5]; slots[15] = 0; slots[9] = 0; slots[10] = 0; slots[11] = 0; slots[12] = 0;
        return (BASE_FEE, BASE_FEE);
    }

    function afterSwap(TradeInfo calldata trade) external override returns (uint256, uint256) {
        uint256 prevBidFee = slots[0]; uint256 prevAskFee = slots[1]; uint256 lastTs = slots[2];
        uint256 dirState = slots[3]; uint256 actEma = slots[4]; uint256 pHat = slots[5];
        uint256 sigmaHat = slots[6]; uint256 lambdaHat = slots[7]; uint256 sizeHat = slots[8];
        uint256 toxEma = slots[9]; uint256 stepTradeCount = slots[10];

        uint256 sigmaForFast = sigmaHat;
        uint256 fastHat = slots[14];
        uint256 uncertainty = slots[13];
        uint256 silent = trade.timestamp > lastTs ? trade.timestamp - lastTs : 0;
        bool isNewStep = trade.timestamp > lastTs;
        if (isNewStep) {
            uint256 elapsedRaw = trade.timestamp - lastTs;
            uint256 elapsed = elapsedRaw > ELAPSED_CAP ? ELAPSED_CAP : elapsedRaw;
            dirState = _decayCentered(dirState, DIR_DECAY, elapsed);
            actEma = wmul(actEma, _powWad(ACT_DECAY, elapsed));
            sizeHat = wmul(sizeHat, _powWad(SIZE_DECAY, elapsed));
            toxEma = wmul(toxEma, _powWad(TOX_DECAY, elapsed));
            if (stepTradeCount > 0 && elapsedRaw > 0) {
                uint256 lambdaInst = (stepTradeCount * WAD) / elapsedRaw;
                if (lambdaInst > LAMBDA_CAP) lambdaInst = LAMBDA_CAP;
                lambdaHat = wmul(lambdaHat, LAMBDA_DECAY) + wmul(lambdaInst, WAD - LAMBDA_DECAY);
            }
            uncertainty += wmul(sigmaForFast, sigmaForFast) * elapsedRaw;
            if (uncertainty > 100000000000000) uncertainty = 100000000000000;
            stepTradeCount = 0;
        }

        bool firstInStep = stepTradeCount == 0;
        uint256 spot = trade.reserveX > 0 ? wdiv(trade.reserveY, trade.reserveX) : pHat;
        if (pHat == 0) pHat = spot;

        uint256 feeUsed = trade.isBuy ? prevBidFee : prevAskFee;
        uint256 gamma = feeUsed < WAD ? WAD - feeUsed : 0;
        uint256 pImplied;
        if (gamma == 0) { pImplied = spot; }
        else { pImplied = trade.isBuy ? wmul(spot, gamma) : wdiv(spot, gamma); }

        // S: infer a no-trade interval center from the last post-trade spot.
        uint256 silenceScale = WAD;
        if (firstInStep && silent > 1) {
            uint256 g = silent - 1;
            if (g > 4) g = 4;
            uint256 w = WAD - _powWad(925000000000000000, g);
            uint256 s = slots[16];
            if (s == 0) s = pHat;
            uint256 c = (wmul(s, WAD - prevBidFee) + wdiv(s, WAD - prevAskFee)) / 2;
            if (c >= pHat) pHat += wmul(w, c - pHat);
            else pHat -= wmul(w, pHat - c);
            silenceScale = WAD - wmul(300000000000000000, w);
        }

        {
            uint256 ret = pHat > 0 ? wdiv(absDiff(pImplied, pHat), pHat) : 0;
            uint256 alpha = firstInStep ? PHAT_ALPHA : PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL;
            uint256 prePhat = pHat;
            bool secondPrint = !firstInStep && stepTradeCount == 1;
            bool sameDir = false; bool oppDir = false;
            if (secondPrint) {
                bool up2 = pImplied >= pHat;
                uint256 d1 = slots[12];
                if (d1 != 0) { sameDir = (d1 == 1) == up2; oppDir = !sameDir; }
                if (sameDir) alpha = PHAT_ALPHA_SAME;
            }
            if (firstInStep) { slots[11] = pHat; slots[12] = pImplied >= pHat ? 1 : 2; }
            uint256 adaptiveGate = wmul(sigmaHat, GATE_SIGMA_MULT);
            if (adaptiveGate < MIN_GATE) adaptiveGate = MIN_GATE;
            alpha = wmul(alpha, silenceScale);
            adaptiveGate = wmul(adaptiveGate, silenceScale);
            if (ret <= adaptiveGate) { pHat = wmul(pHat, WAD - alpha) + wmul(pImplied, alpha); }
            if (oppDir && REVERT_U > 0) {
                uint256 pre = slots[11];
                if (pre > pHat) pHat = pHat + wmul(pre - pHat, REVERT_U);
                else pHat = pHat - wmul(pHat - pre, REVERT_U);
            }
            if (firstInStep) {
                if (ret > RET_CAP) ret = RET_CAP;
                sigmaHat = wmul(sigmaHat, SIGMA_DECAY) + wmul(ret, WAD - SIGMA_DECAY);
            }
        }

        // Interior retail routing equalizes fee-adjusted marginal prices.
        // Subsequent trades in a step cannot be the initial arbitrage trade.
        if (!firstInStep && feeUsed > 30 * BPS && gamma > 0) {
            uint256 normalSpot = trade.isBuy
                ? wdiv(wmul(spot, gamma), WAD - 30 * BPS)
                : wdiv(wmul(spot, WAD - 30 * BPS), gamma);
            pHat = wmul(pHat, 90 * WAD / 100) + wmul(normalSpot, 10 * WAD / 100);
        }

        {
            uint256 ret = fastHat > 0 ? wdiv(absDiff(pImplied, fastHat), fastHat) : 0;
            uint256 alpha;
            if (firstInStep) {
                uint256 processSigma = sigmaForFast;
                uint256 obsVar = uncertainty + wmul(processSigma, processSigma);
                uint256 probArb;
                uint256 z2 = wdiv(wmul(ret, ret), obsVar);
                uint256 density = _powWad(wdiv(WAD, WAD + z2 / 16), 8);
                uint256 sigmaObs = sqrt(obsVar * WAD);
                uint256 odds = wmul(density, wdiv(6700000000000000, sigmaObs));
                bool arbFlag = ret <= wmul(sigmaForFast, 1220000000000000000);
                uint256 prior = arbFlag ? 650000000000000000 : 400000000000000000;
                uint256 tr = trade.reserveY > 0 ? wdiv(trade.amountY, trade.reserveY) : 0;
                if (tr > 3000000000000000) prior = wmul(prior, 6 * WAD / 10);
                if (silent > 1) prior = wmul(prior, 8 * WAD / 10);
                odds = wmul(odds, wdiv(prior, WAD - prior));
                probArb = wdiv(odds, WAD + odds);
                alpha = wmul(probArb, 600000000000000000) + wmul(WAD - probArb, 80000000000000000);
                slots[15] = pImplied >= fastHat ? 1 : 2;
                uncertainty = wmul(uncertainty, WAD - alpha);
            } else {
                if ((slots[15] == 1) == (pImplied >= fastHat)) alpha = PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL;
            }
            uint256 gate = wmul(sigmaHat, GATE_SIGMA_MULT);
            if (gate < MIN_GATE) gate = MIN_GATE;
            if (ret <= gate) fastHat = wmul(fastHat, WAD - alpha) + wmul(pImplied, alpha);
            slots[13] = uncertainty;
        }

        if (!firstInStep && feeUsed > 30 * BPS && gamma > 0) {
            uint256 normalObs = trade.isBuy
                ? wdiv(wmul(spot, gamma), WAD - 30 * BPS)
                : wdiv(wmul(spot, WAD - 30 * BPS), gamma);
            if ((slots[15] == 1) == (normalObs >= fastHat)) {
                fastHat = wmul(fastHat, 9 * WAD / 10) + wmul(normalObs, WAD / 10);
            }
        }
        slots[14] = fastHat;
        uint256 tradeRatio = trade.reserveY > 0 ? wdiv(trade.amountY, trade.reserveY) : 0;
        if (tradeRatio > TRADE_RATIO_CAP) tradeRatio = TRADE_RATIO_CAP;

        if (tradeRatio > SIGNAL_THRESHOLD) {
            uint256 push = tradeRatio * DIR_IMPACT_MULT;
            if (push > WAD / 4) push = WAD / 4;
            if (trade.isBuy) {
                dirState = dirState + push;
                if (dirState > 2 * WAD) dirState = 2 * WAD;
            } else {
                dirState = dirState > push ? dirState - push : 0;
            }
            actEma = wmul(actEma, ACT_BLEND_DECAY) + wmul(tradeRatio, WAD - ACT_BLEND_DECAY);
            sizeHat = wmul(sizeHat, SIZE_BLEND_DECAY) + wmul(tradeRatio, WAD - SIZE_BLEND_DECAY);
            if (sizeHat > WAD) sizeHat = WAD;
        }

        uint256 tox = pHat > 0 ? wdiv(absDiff(spot, pHat), pHat) : 0;
        if (tox > TOX_CAP) tox = TOX_CAP;
        toxEma = wmul(toxEma, TOX_BLEND_DECAY) + wmul(tox, WAD - TOX_BLEND_DECAY);
        uint256 toxSignal = toxEma;

        stepTradeCount = stepTradeCount + 1;
        if (stepTradeCount > STEP_COUNT_CAP) stepTradeCount = STEP_COUNT_CAP;

        uint256 flowSize = wmul(lambdaHat, sizeHat);
        uint256 fBase = BASE_FEE + wmul(SIGMA_COEF, sigmaHat) + wmul(LAMBDA_COEF, lambdaHat) + wmul(FLOW_SIZE_COEF, flowSize);
        uint256 fMid = fBase + wmul(TOX_COEF, toxSignal) + wmul(TOX_QUAD_COEF, wmul(toxSignal, toxSignal)) + wmul(ACT_COEF, actEma);
        fMid = fMid + wmul(SIGMA_TOX_COEF, wmul(sigmaHat, toxSignal));

        uint256 dirDev; bool sellPressure;
        if (dirState >= WAD) { dirDev = dirState - WAD; sellPressure = true; }
        else { dirDev = WAD - dirState; sellPressure = false; }

        uint256 skew = wmul(DIR_COEF, dirDev) + wmul(DIR_TOX_COEF, wmul(dirDev, toxSignal));
        uint256 bidFee; uint256 askFee;
        if (sellPressure) {
            bidFee = fMid + skew;
            askFee = fMid > skew ? fMid - skew : 0;
        } else {
            askFee = fMid + skew;
            bidFee = fMid > skew ? fMid - skew : 0;
        }

        {
            uint256 staleHat = wmul(pHat, 700000000000000000) + wmul(fastHat, 300000000000000000);
            uint256 staleTox = wdiv(absDiff(spot, staleHat), staleHat);
            if (staleTox > TOX_CAP) staleTox = TOX_CAP;
            uint256 staleShift = wmul(STALE_DIR_COEF, staleTox);
            uint256 attractShift = wmul(staleShift, STALE_ATTRACT_FRAC);
            if (spot >= staleHat) {
                bidFee = bidFee + staleShift;
                askFee = askFee > attractShift ? askFee - attractShift : 0;
            } else {
                askFee = askFee + staleShift;
                bidFee = bidFee > attractShift ? bidFee - attractShift : 0;
            }
        }

        {
            bool tradeAligned = (trade.isBuy && spot >= pHat) || (!trade.isBuy && spot < pHat);
            if (tradeAligned) {
                uint256 tradeBoost = wmul(TRADE_TOX_BOOST, tradeRatio);
                if (trade.isBuy) { bidFee = bidFee + tradeBoost; }
                else { askFee = askFee + tradeBoost; }
            }
        }

        if (sellPressure) {
            bidFee = clampFee(_compressTailWithSlope(bidFee, TAIL_SLOPE_PROTECT));
            askFee = clampFee(_compressTailWithSlope(askFee, TAIL_SLOPE_ATTRACT));
        } else {
            askFee = clampFee(_compressTailWithSlope(askFee, TAIL_SLOPE_PROTECT));
            bidFee = clampFee(_compressTailWithSlope(bidFee, TAIL_SLOPE_ATTRACT));
        }

        slots[0] = bidFee; slots[1] = askFee; slots[2] = trade.timestamp;
        slots[3] = dirState; slots[4] = actEma; slots[5] = pHat;
        slots[6] = sigmaHat; slots[7] = lambdaHat; slots[8] = sizeHat;
        slots[16] = spot;
        slots[9] = toxEma; slots[10] = stepTradeCount;

        return (bidFee, askFee);
    }

    function _compressTailWithSlope(uint256 fee, uint256 slope) internal pure returns (uint256) {
        if (fee <= TAIL_KNEE) return fee;
        return TAIL_KNEE + wmul(fee - TAIL_KNEE, slope);
    }

    function _powWad(uint256 factor, uint256 exp) internal pure returns (uint256 result) {
        result = WAD;
        while (exp > 0) {
            if (exp & 1 == 1) result = wmul(result, factor);
            factor = wmul(factor, factor);
            exp >>= 1;
        }
    }

    function _decayCentered(uint256 centered, uint256 decayFactor, uint256 elapsed) internal pure returns (uint256) {
        uint256 mul = _powWad(decayFactor, elapsed);
        if (centered >= WAD) { return WAD + wmul(centered - WAD, mul); }
        uint256 below = wmul(WAD - centered, mul);
        return below < WAD ? WAD - below : 0;
    }

    function getName() external pure override returns (string memory) { return "no_cubic"; }
}

1.1 Runner-up, confirmed twice on 4,000 seeds: B+S+L

L = slow-path PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL 0.06 → 0.03 (the one semantic change of ep7-late/later-b; the fast estimator keeps 0.06). Two independent machines, two seed blocks, same semantics (their byte texts differ, so two hashes):

Item	Seeds	n	vs NP2	vs B	Worst seed	SHA-256
`ep9-loo/non-a`	2950000..2953999	4000	+0.6426 ± 0.0140	+0.1524 ± 0.0113	2953238 −10.52	`9e2f512a93955eff9c32d8434bb94d5238e312995e257d1fca8c90f31cdc5788`
`ep9-loo/non-b`	2960000..2963999	4000	+0.6325 ± 0.0145	+0.1917 ± 0.0270	2961301 −4.24	`508ae3f24d0f042dd621ed7a8f7e90ba35457b1d3c252d980b91a6467648bbec`

The two copies agree within one combined se. B+S+L is about 0.1 below B+S because L, which gains +0.105 on NP2, loses on B (see §4). If the requester wants a file with two independent 4,000-seed confirmations, this is it; if they want the highest point estimate, B+S is, with one 2,000-seed copy.

1.2 Against the requester's own bar

The requester (19:15Z note) submits a file that is ≥ +0.8 over NP2 on 4,000 fresh seeds. B+S is +0.74 on 2,000 seeds; B+S+L is +0.64 on 2×4,000. Neither clears the bar. Recommendation: re-measure B+S's exact file (hash above) on a fresh 4,000-seed block from 3070000 up (every block from 2000000 to 3061999 and 2900000..2909999 has been used; 3070000 up is unused) before any submission. Expected board effect of +0.74 is 518.83 → ~519.6: rank barely moves.

2. What the leaders' per-run board data says they do differently

Source: ep2-board/top20-regimes and ep2-board/top20-families (public per-run files, GET www.paradigm.xyz/puzzles/api/v1/submissions/<id>, 1,000 runs per entry; the requester confirmed 16:46Z that runs are the same 1,000 seeds in the same order for every entry, so the positional difference d is a true paired difference). Board snapshot 2026-11-07.

Rank	Board	d vs NP2	se	worst d	runs lost	retail Y	arb Y	bid bps	ask bps	bid−ask
1	528.399	+9.570	0.063	+3.59	0	77,878	23,665	35.35	35.48	−0.13
2	528.362	+9.532	0.063	+3.44	0	77,894	23,709	35.36	35.38	−0.02
5	528.099	+9.270	0.062	−5.73	1	78,057	23,717	35.22	35.27	−0.05
10	524.658	+5.829	0.049	+1.42	0	77,928	24,489	35.19	35.40	−0.21
20	521.978	+3.149	0.047	−3.54	11	79,262	25,783	34.28	33.71	+0.57
39 NP2	518.829	0	–	–	–	76,498	24,049	36.26	35.24	+1.02

What the data shows:

#1 beats NP2 on every one of the 1,000 runs (minimum +3.59). This is not a tail effect or a regime bet.
The gap scales with retail flow, and is flat as a share of NP2's edge. By NP2-retail tercile #1's d is 8.13 / 9.54 / 11.04; as a fraction of NP2's own edge it is 1.92% / 1.85% / 1.79%. On a flow-free cut (NP2 arb volume after regressing out retail) d is flat at 9.53 / 9.59 / 9.59. No volatility or arb regime carries it.
The ladder has two separate rungs. NP2 → #10 is a retail rung: +1,430 retail Y, arb +440 Y, d +5.83. #10 → #1 is an arb rung: retail −50, arb −824 Y (−3.4%) at a mean mid fee only +0.12 bps higher, d +3.74. Across the top 20, d correlates −0.53 with arb change and +0.20 with retail change. Of #1's +9.57, about 7.1 is taken from the normalizer pool and 2.5 is new edge.
Volume explains less than a third of the gap. OLS across runs: d(#1) = 6.52 + 0.00187·ΔRetail − 0.00124·ΔArb, R² 0.43: about 2.6 from retail and 0.5 from arb volume, leaving a 6.5 intercept. The leaders earn more per unit of flow, not just more flow.
NP2's fee shape stands out twice, and both are symptoms, not dials. (a) Its step-end mid fee rises 1.755 bps per 10k retail Y (33.71 / 35.74 / 37.79 by tercile) vs #1's 1.096 (34.12 / 35.45 / 36.68) and #10's 1.013; fee sd 1.97 vs 1.61 bps; correlation with baseline edge 0.92 vs 0.76. (b) A persistent bid-over-ask lean of +1.02 bps (top-5 range −0.13..−0.02), present in every tercile, with per-run skew correlating 0.85 with #1's at the same sd, so the path response is right and the offset is the fault. In busy runs NP2 overprices and loses retail (T3: #1 +2,695 retail); in quiet runs its ask is too cheap and arbs take more (T1: #1 arb −1,278). Every direct edit of these symptoms lost (flattening the flow slope −0.09 to −6.5, zeroing the lean −0.035/−0.041, capping bid−ask −47; see §4), which is what tells us they are consequences of a different fee rule.
Tails. Run 476: d +18.41 with NP2 bid−ask 18.9 bps vs #1's 3.3; run 808: +14.83, 17.0 vs 3.8. NP2 has 90 runs with mean bid > 40 bps vs #1's 39 (max 52.95 vs 43.33).
Families. Ward clustering on fee statistics puts NP2 and #12 alone in a "high baseline coupling" family; the whole top 10 is one low-variability family. The leaders' code is not public (houseofjiao's public repo is ~3.9 below his board entry).

How this reads with the simulator facts (ep1-rules/rules, ep3-base/decomp, ep5-err/err-b): each step the price moves, exactly one arb attempt hits our pool (and lands the spot exactly at the band edge, revealing the fair price), then all retail orders are routed by a smooth share rule against the 30 bps normalizer (at equal reserves: 20 bps → 62.6% of input, 30 → 50%, 40 → 37.4%; no cliff at 30). Fees we return after a print apply to the next trade, whatever it is. 98.1% of NP2's arb loss is at gap 1 (a print every step); displacement > 200 bps is 4.7% of arb prints and 35.6% of arb loss. Steps with > 30 bps pre-step pHat error are 19.4% of steps and 63.3% of arb loss. The leaders cut arb by 3.4% at the same mean fee, consistent with quoting by position within the step (the quote left at step end serves the next arb; the quote after a first print serves same-step retail) and with per-side fees set from an expected-edge rule rather than NP2's gap-proportional shift. These are the untested hypotheses of §6.

3. The ceiling: why estimation cannot close the gap

All measured separately vs Vanilla; oracle items used a patched simulator that appends the true fair price as a seventh calldata word (not submittable).

Item	Design	n	vs NP2	arb edge Δ	retail edge Δ
`ep3-oracle/oracle-price`	NP2 with pHat := true price, mapping unchanged	2000	−5.39 ± 0.057	+15.57	−20.96
`ep2-oracle/oracle-price`	true gap only in tox/side tests, TOX_SCALE 0.9	2500	−2.11 ± 0.04	+9.39	−11.50
`ep6-oracle/ceil-b`	true price plus coordinate re-tune of STALE_DIR_COEF ×0.75, TOX_COEF ×2, TOX_QUAD_COEF ×3 (grid edge), TOX_BLEND_DECAY ×2	2000	+1.19 ± 0.051	+5.98	−4.79
`ep6-oracle/ev-a` / `ev-b`	true price, affine per-side fees (exposed = a·gap + b, other = c − d·gap)	2000	−5.13 ± 0.060 / −5.26 ± 0.065	−0.34	−4.79
`ep3-oracle/oracle-full`	fee per side = gap to fair + g (25/25 bps), arb never trades	10000	−33.48 ± 0.071	+28.0	−61.5

Reading: knowing the price exactly saves +9 to +16 of arb loss, more than the whole gap to 1st, but NP2's stale/attract shift (0.685 × gap, both sides) is tuned to a laggy pHat and over-shifts with a correct gap, giving back more retail. Re-tuning the mapping jointly with the true price recovers only +1.19. Inside the NP2/CH fee family a perfect estimator is worth about +1.2, while 10th needs +5.8. B+S at +0.74 already takes about 60% of that ceiling. The affine and gap+g forms show that a fee rule that blocks arbs loses far more retail than it saves: arbs re-centre the pool, and the exposed side must stay below the gap. The leaders' +9.6 therefore comes from a fee rule NP2 does not have, not from tracking.

4. Ranked table of every promotion

"Promotion" = a candidate that was measured paired vs NP2 (or vs B) on a fresh block. Ranked by the best valid fresh-seed result. Status: FINAL shipped; CONFIRMED gain ≥ 2 se on a fresh block; MARGINAL < 2 se; LOST; INVALID (out of gas, or measured head-to-head in one market before the 17:45Z method correction). Head-to-head numbers (both-b +35.0, flat-a +13.0, flat-b +24.6, lean-b +0.385, cap-a) are discarded and listed only as invalid.

#	Candidate	Base	Item(s)	n	Fresh paired gain	se	Status
1	B+S (silence correction on stack-b)	B	`ep9-single/onlys-a`	2000	+0.7355 vs NP2; +0.2811 vs B	0.0175 / 0.0158	FINAL, one copy (onlys-b blocked)
2	B+S+L	B	`ep9-loo/non-a`, `non-b`	4000, 4000	+0.6426, +0.6325 vs NP2; +0.152, +0.192 vs B	0.014 / 0.015	CONFIRMED twice
3	B = stack-b: two-estimator design, fast estimate feeds only the stale shift	NP2	`ep7-stack/stack-b`; re-measured by `ep9-tune/tune-a`, `tune-b`, `ep9-loo/non-b`, `nol-b`, `ep9-stack/full-b`	2000; 2000; 2000; 4000; 2000; 660	+0.4770; +0.4955; +0.4575; +0.4408; +0.4983; +0.4895	0.017–0.031	CONFIRMED on six blocks (pooled ≈ +0.47); arb +3.96, retail −3.49
4	B+L	B	`ep9-pair/onlyl-a`, `onlyl-b`	4000, 4000	+0.3492, +0.3382 vs NP2; −0.1314, −0.1433 vs B	0.014 / 0.007	L LOSES on B: drop from B-based files
5	S alone = silence-a (g ≤ 4, w = 1 − 0.925^g, alpha/gate × (1 − 0.30w))	NP2	`ep5-mech/silence-a`	2000	+0.2187	0.0108	CONFIRMED on NP2; +0.28 on B
6	N = next-mix-a (exposed side blended with break-even fee by Poisson P(next trade retail), MIX_M 0.625, MIX_E 1/8)	NP2	`ep3-mech/next-mix-a`	4000	+0.1700	0.0074	CONFIRMED on NP2; INVALID on B (gas, see row 15)
7	L = later-b (slow PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL 0.06 → 0.03)	NP2	`ep7-late/later-b`; sweep `ep8-sweep-f27/r03` cell (0.03, 0.27, 0.12)	2000; 2000	+0.1051; +0.1031	0.0096; 0.0127	CONFIRMED on NP2 (arb +1.42, retail −1.32); loses on B
8	stack-a (single-estimator variant of the same ideas)	NP2	`ep7-stack/stack-a`	2000	+0.100	0.024	CONFIRMED but dominated by stack-b
9	PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL 0.02 (SAME 0.12 / 0.09)	NP2	`ep8-sweep-f27/r02`	2000 (tuning seeds)	+0.0607 / +0.0587	0.014 / 0.015	tuning-seed result; 0.03 is better
10	skew-off (DIR_COEF = DIR_TOX_COEF = 0)	NP2	`ep4-lean/lean-b` ablation	200	+0.061	0.012	MARGINAL, unconfirmed; candidate gas diet (§6)
11	prespot-a (blend 95/5 toward pre-trade reserve price on prints with amountY/reserveY ≥ 1%)	NP2	`ep5-mech/prespot-a`	2000	+0.025	0.0145	MARGINAL (t 1.7)
12	B first-print wR 0.12 (wA 0.6)	B	`ep9-tune/tune-b`	1024 (tuning)	+0.0200 vs B	0.0123	MARGINAL (1.6 se); wR 0.04 −0.081, wA 0.5 −0.048, wA 0.7 −0.003
13	B stale blend fast weight 0.2 / 0.4 / 0.1 / 0.5 (B is 0.3)	B	`ep9-tune/tune-a`	1024 (tuning)	−0.044 / −0.075 / −0.201 / −0.270 vs B	0.013–0.019	LOST: B's 0.3 is the optimum
14	B+S+N+L (full stack)	B	`ep9-stack/full-b`	660	+0.311 vs NP2; −0.178 vs B	0.108 / 0.105	INVALID/LOST: slow machine; seed 2920436 collapses 309 vs 376 only when S and N are together (ablation: noS 375.7, noN 376.3, noL 309.4)
15	Any N on B (B+N+L, B+N, B+S+N, B+S+N+L)	B	`ep9-stack/nos-a` −85.9 (n 4000), `nos-b` −48.7 (n 100), `ep9-pair/onlyn-a` −87.8, `onlyn-b` −84.6, `ep9-loo/nol-b` −92.4 (n 2000), `ep9-stack/full-a` −466			INVALID: out of gas. B peaks at 242,638 of the 250,000 afterSwap gas (NP2 196,097); N's 24-term Poisson series, square roots and atanh push it over; the engine keeps old fees and reverts the hook's writes on OOG (nol-b counted 6,377,412 OOG calls over 2,000 sims; cand 431.5 vs NP2 523.9). Not a loss of the mechanism: untested on B
16	sitshift-a / -b (class-specific stale/attract/boost after arb-like vs retail-like prints)	NP2	`ep6-mech/sitshift-a`, `-b`	2000	−0.003 / −0.017	0.009 / 0.007	LOST (flat)
17	lean-a / lean-b (zero the +1 bps bid-over-ask lean)	NP2	`ep4-lean/lean-a`, `lean-b`	2000 / 1024	−0.035 / −0.041	0.003 / 0.006	LOST (lean-b's +0.385 confirm was head-to-head, invalid)
18	flat-a / flat-b (damp the flow slope to ~1.1 bps per 10k retail Y)	NP2	`ep4-flow/flat-a`, `flat-b`	1024 / –	−0.093 / −0.075	0.014 / 0.03	LOST (their +13.0 / +24.6 confirms were head-to-head, invalid)
19	arbfirst-a (P(arb)-weighted first-print alpha on the slow path)	NP2	`ep5-mech/arbfirst-a`	2000	−0.14	0.017	LOST
20	mix-a / mix-b (first-print arb/retail mixture on the slow path, empirical P(arb) table, shift re-tuned)	NP2	`ep7-mix/mix-a`, `mix-b`	2000	−0.305 / −1.25	0.027 / 0.032	LOST (arb +3.43, retail −3.74)
21	both-a (flatten + zero lean)	NP2	`ep4-flow/both-a`	2000	−1.87	0.048	LOST (both-b's +35.0 was head-to-head)
22	hard-a / hard-b (hard 1.22σ-type cutoff, wA 0.5)	NP2	`ep7-mix/hard-a`, `hard-b`	2000	−2.44 / −2.62	0.033 / 0.038	LOST (arb +2.0, retail −4.6)
23	kalman-a (log-price Kalman filter replacing the alphas)	NP2	`ep5-mech/kalman-a`	2000	−3.22	0.038	LOST
24	unc-a / unc-b (variance grown through silence, Kalman gain on the slow path)	NP2	`ep7-late/unc-a`, `unc-b`	2000	−4.44 / −4.55	0.046 / 0.068	LOST
25	ev-a / ev-b (affine gap fees with the TRUE price)	oracle	`ep6-oracle/ev-a`, `ev-b`	2000	−5.13 / −5.26	0.060 / 0.065	LOST (not a ceiling)
26	oracle-price (true price as pHat, mapping unchanged)	oracle	`ep3-oracle/oracle-price`	2000	−5.39	0.057	LOST (arb +15.6, retail −21.0)
27	shrink-a / shrink-b (noise-shrunk gap, K·sigmaHat·√(1+elapsed))	NP2	`ep6-mech/shrink-a`, `-b`	tuning	−23 and worse for every K > 0		LOST
28	router-a (undercut the normalizer on the favourable side after an arb print)	NP2	`ep3-mech/router-a`		−26.7		LOST
29	oracle-full (gap + g fees, arbs blocked)	oracle	`ep3-oracle/oracle-full`	10000	−33.48	0.071	LOST (retail −61.5)
30	cap-a / cap-b (12 bps bid−ask cap with stuck-side pull)	NP2	`ep4-lean/cap-a`, `cap-b`		−47 (grid −48..−57 at every cap; pull-only −218)		LOST
31	ceil-b (true price + re-tuned mapping)	oracle	`ep6-oracle/ceil-b`	2000	+1.19	0.051	not submittable (needs the oracle feed and inline assembly); the ceiling figure

Not in the table because their results were not handed or not recorded in the goal's notes: ep5-mech/evfee-a/-b, nextmix-a/-b (ep5 copies), arbfirst-b, silence-b, kalman-b, prespot-b; ep5-err/err-a; ep6-oracle/ceil-a; ep7-late/later-a; ep8-sweep-f27/r0, r01, r04 (r04 blocked, no network; r0/r01 summarized in the notes as RETAIL 0 −0.116/−0.120 and 0.01 −0.007/−0.011); the cancelled ep1-mech, ep3-mech (except next-mix-a and router-a), ep8-sweep-f22/-f32, ep8-stack.

4.1 Structure of the gains

Each confirmed gain is a small change to NP2's own gains, or a second estimator that touches only one output. stack-b's own ablations (n 80, tuning seeds): removing the first-print classifier costs 0.37, removing the later fast updates 0.28, removing variance growth 0.09; the "slow only" control is NP2 exactly.
Every rewrite of the slow estimator lost by 0.1 to 5 (kalman, unc, mixture, hard cutoff, shrink, arbfirst), even with the stale/attract shift re-tuned, because NP2's sigma, toxicity, activity and flow signals are all computed from the slow pHat and are tuned to its lag. ep5-err/err-b explains the paradox: an arb print reveals the true price exactly (RMS 1e-12 bps), yet raising the first-print alpha from 0.27 loses, because 45% of first prints are retail (67 bps RMS noise) and the fee mapping needs the lag.
Gains do not add on B. S adds +0.28 on B (vs +0.22 on NP2), but L flips from +0.105 on NP2 to −0.14 on B (B's stale shift already uses a fast estimate, so slowing the slow path's later update now hurts), and N cannot be tested on B until something is removed for gas.
Where the gains come from: every confirmed gain trades retail for arb (stack-b arb +3.96 / retail −3.49; later-b +1.42 / −1.32; next-mix arb volume −2.8%, retail −0.6%). The board's #10 rung is a retail rung (+1,430 Y retail). Nothing the run built takes more retail.

5. Method notes the judge should know

Head-to-head era (ep3, ep4). The first briefs said "pair via run_batch" and workers ran run_batch(candidate, NP2) in one market, which measures flow stealing, not the board score (both-b showed +35.0 that way and −2.6 vs Vanilla). The requester corrected the method at 17:45Z; every later brief carried the separate-vs-Vanilla recipe, and every number above was checked for it. ep3-base/harness-a calibrates the method: a +5 bps BASE_FEE change is −2.68 ± 0.023 on 4,000 seeds and two 2,000-seed blocks agree within 1.2 combined se; per-seed diff sd for small edits is ~0.47, so se on 2,000 seeds is 0.01–0.03.
Setup script. The objective's setup script was refused by the first workers as host inspection (its uname -sm / /proc/self/exe gate line). From ep3 on, every brief carried the requester's no-gate variant word for word; it worked on every x86_64 Linux host with network. Blocked items (onlys-b, harness-b, r04, the ep1/ep2 items) were host failures, not brief failures.
Seed hygiene. Tuning on 10000..99999; each confirmation on its own never-reused block (10,000 per item) from 2000000 up; used: 2000000..3061999 and 2900000..2909999. Next free block: 3070000.
Gas. The afterSwap gas limit is 250,000. NP2 peaks at 196,097, B at 242,638, B+S at 236,395 (max successful; nol-b's counter). Any further addition to B needs headroom first.

6. What the next run should try

In order of expected value.

Design a new fee rule, not a better estimator. The oracle ceiling (§3) caps NP2's fee family at about +1.2 with a perfect price. The board data (§2) gives the target: +5.8 to #10 is a retail rung at the same mean fee (+1,430 retail Y with arb +440), and #10 → #1 is an arb rung (−824 arb Y at +0.12 bps). Concrete, untested designs: (a) quote by position within the step — arb trades first, so the fee returned after a first print serves same-step retail (price it from the smooth router share, which has no cliff at 30 bps), and the fee left at step end serves the next step's arb (price it from sigmaHat and the expected gap); NP2 uses one formula for both; (b) expected-edge per side — f maximising f·share(f)·E[flow] − P(arb next)·E[arb loss | gap], with the exact router share from ep1-rules/rules and the Poisson P(next is retail) that next-mix-a already computes; (c) take retail in busy runs — the leaders' mid fee rises 1.1 bps per 10k retail Y vs NP2's 1.76 and they win T3 by +2,695 retail; flattening the slope within NP2's mapping lost, so this has to come from (a)/(b), not from damping the flow terms. Fit any new rule on tuning seeds and judge it only by the fresh-block paired gain; the two board rungs give it a per-tercile target to hit.
Gas diet, then N on B. B has 7k gas of headroom. Remove dead code first: the dirState skew (DIR_COEF/DIR_TOX_COEF, +0.06 to remove on 200 seeds), REVERT_U (constant 0), redundant zero writes in afterInitialize; pack slot 16 into slot 2 above the timestamp as full-b did; replace the base sqrt with the cheaper Newton _isqrt nol-b verified bit-identical. Then re-test B+S+N on fresh seeds. Expected if additive: about +0.9; but full-b saw one seed collapse (309 vs 376) only when S and N are together, so inspect seed 2920436 with the new build before trusting the mean.
A second 4,000-seed copy of B+S on 3070000..3073999, two machines. Also re-tune S on B (S's 0.075 / cap 4 / 0.30 were tuned on NP2) and try separate silence curves for the alpha and the gate (silence-a's own next).
B's first-print retail weight wR 0.12..0.16 (+0.020 at 1.6 se at 0.12; 0.04 and wA changes lose). Small, cheap, needs ≥ 2,000 tuning seeds per cell.
Look at the tails. L's worst seeds under NP2 are −8 to −13 (10870, 10846 recur across every sweep cell); B+S+L's worst is −10.5 (2953238). A mechanism that loses 10 on 1 seed in 1,000 costs 0.01 of mean; finding why may expose where the slow pHat gets stuck.
Do not retry: every slow-estimator rewrite (Kalman, variance growth, mixture, hard cutoff, noise shrink, class shifts), flow-slope flattening, lean zeroing, bid−ask caps, router undercutting, affine or gap+g oracle fee forms.

7. What is missing

A second fresh-seed copy of the FINAL file (B+S): onlys-b was blocked at setup. One 2,000-seed measurement is the only evidence for +0.74; the parts are each confirmed separately (B on six blocks, S on NP2 and on B+L twice).
The requester's submission bar (≥ +0.8 on 4,000 fresh seeds) is not met by any file.
The top-10 target (+5.8) and the 1st-place target (+9.6) are not met and, per §3, cannot be met inside NP2's fee family. The run did not get to designing a new fee rule.
N (next-mix-a, +0.17 on NP2) is unmeasured on B for gas reasons.
Results never handed: ep5-mech's second copies and evfee items, ep6-oracle/ceil-a, ep7-late/later-a, ep5-err/err-a.

8. Results this write-up rests on

Hashes of the handed result files are those listed in the task; cited by batch/item: ep1-rules/rules (simulator rules), ep2-board/top20-regimes, ep2-board/top20-families (board data), ep3-base/decomp, ep3-base/harness-a (edge decomposition, method calibration), ep3-oracle/oracle-price, ep3-oracle/oracle-full, ep6-oracle/ceil-b, ep6-oracle/ev-a (ceilings), ep3-mech/next-mix-a, ep5-mech/silence-a, ep5-mech/kalman-a, ep7-late/later-b, ep7-mix/mix-a, ep7-stack/stack-b, ep4-flow/flat-a, ep4-lean/lean-b (mechanisms), ep5-err/err-b (pHat error diagnosis), ep8-sweep-f27/r02, r03 (alpha sweep), ep9-stack/full-b, nos-a, ep9-loo/non-a, non-b, nol-b, ep9-pair/onlyl-a, onlyl-b, ep9-single/onlys-a, ep9-tune/tune-a, tune-b (final stacks). Other figures (stack-a, hard-a/b, unc-a/b, arbfirst-a, prespot-a, sitshift, shrink, router-a, cap, both-a, lean-a, ev-b, the ep2 oracle-price, onlyn-a/b, full-a, nos-b) come from the orchestrator's episode notes in the goal state, which recorded them when those items were handed in earlier episodes.

Key hashes: NP2 51f1c1a9d4999ee460eb8bbc66880da8074b173399a4f5d71f96671482e18ac0 (TWO + NP's interior-routing block, 526.1155722459862 on 0..999); CH 6dd68f77a70900319460215374143dbd5d924198450a46d9f5f91f6b1e3d35c3 (525.5258821780834); stack-b 218426004abed3b6cb69f4ef133fea8e4789ddbeae37bd11e94e5ffc5f2a77cb; later-b 91fe9cb4553c4781f1c6e1ac3d5a036e5c0ebe09bd4ed67a2f4c059647e54fcc; next-mix-a 1e8a7601c5c0622e870e80308f2ab7aa5a58361358e7926f96735c31f6321a5b; B+L d052c0a7dcbcd931aa683eaa7f109c39980f4f8664022b35d27a5cad5978785a; B+S (FINAL) a9830b417dd43806c144e8b4a217cda1317850bb52578b18a3237307cf8dfa16; B+S+L 9e2f512a93955eff9c32d8434bb94d5238e312995e257d1fca8c90f31cdc5788 / 508ae3f24d0f042dd621ed7a8f7e90ba35457b1d3c252d980b91a6467648bbec.

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Round 1ep1-rules3 of 3 backep1-mech5 of 5 back, cancelled
Agent #1299 planned it. Started 23 min after the job was posted.
ep1-mech: 5 released, 18 held.
what ep1-rules was asked
Simulator github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704. NP2 = `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd plus the block of `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =`, inserted before the former's `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 51f1c1a9... SETUP (Linux x86_64): clone the simulator at that commit into your workspace (not /tmp), cd in, save the script below as scratch/setup.sh, run it once with sh, then prefix commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `; on BLOCKED/failure return blocked={step,error}, paired n 0. set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh [ "$(uname -sm)" = "Linux x86_64" ]&&[ -e /proc/self/exe ]||{ echo BLOCKED platform;exit 3;} command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol TASK: {{task}} RESULT JSON: the fields the task names plus np2_check (NP2 mean on seeds 0..999 via your harness, or null), seconds_per_sim, blocked (null or {step,error}), notes(<=1500c). Cite the Rust source you rely on by file path and line.
what ep1-mech was asked
Simulator github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704. NP2 = `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd plus the block of `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =`, inserted before the former's `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 51f1c1a9... SETUP (Linux x86_64): clone the simulator at that commit into your workspace (not /tmp), cd in, save the script below as scratch/setup.sh, run it once with sh, then prefix commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `; on BLOCKED/failure return blocked={step,error}, paired n 0. set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh [ "$(uname -sm)" = "Linux x86_64" ]&&[ -e /proc/self/exe ]||{ echo BLOCKED platform;exit 3;} command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol TASK: add ONE mechanism to NP2, else unchanged: {{mechanism}} Pass `amm-match validate`, gas <250k. Pair vs NP2 on identical draws (default_rng(seed): size, rate, sigma per MatchRunner._build_configs; price seed=seed, retail seed+1; amm_sim_rs.run_batch); NP2 must average 526.1156 on seeds 0..999. Tune on seeds in 10000..99999 (>=500 each); then confirm ONE frozen variant once on >=2000 consecutive fresh seeds from {{confirm_start}} (below +10000). RESULT JSON: mechanism, approach, delta(<=900c, all changes vs NP2 with final constants, reproducible), code, code_sha256, validate_ok, max_gas, np2_check, tune[{variant,seeds,n,mean_diff,se}], paired{seeds,n,mean_diff,se,worst}, next, blocked. Report as computed, negative too.
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EPISODE 1 (goal: lift NP2 on Paradigm AMM fee challenge; need paired +5.8 for top 10, +9.6 for 1st vs NP2 526.1156 on seeds 0..999). WHAT I LEARNED (from the two artifacts and the challenge README): TWO is an EMA fair-price tracker (pHat from fee-implied post-trade spot, alpha 0.27 first-in-step / 0.06 later / 0.12 second print same direction), with sigmaHat, lambdaHat, sizeHat, actEma, toxEma (|spot-pHat|), dirState skew, staleShift/attractShift by spot vs pHat, aligned-trade boost, and a tail compress (knee 600bps, slopes 0.93/0.85); 13 slots of 32 used, gas ~94k of 250k. NP adds a 10% blend of pHat toward the normalizer-implied spot for non-first prints with feeUsed>30bps. Simulator: 10000 steps, GBM sigma~U[0.088%,0.101%]/step (nearly constant, so regime estimation is low value), retail Poisson rate U[0.6,1.0]/step, lognormal size sigma 1.2 mean U[19,21] Y, 50/50 buy-sell, retail splits by fee vs a fixed 30bps normalizer; arbs trade spot back to fair; edge measured at fair price; fee cap 10%. Fees returned after a print apply to the next print whatever it is (arb or retail), afterSwap is only called on our prints: these two facts shape every mechanism. DECIDED: two research batches. ep1-rules (3 items, no canary): `rules` = exact Rust rules (step order, arb rule, retail split formula with share table, fee semantics, draws, run_batch, edge); `decomp` = NP2 arb/retail edge decomposition on seeds 0..199 incl. loss by gap since previous print; `harness` = verified pairing harness source (pair.py), NP2/TWO checks, seconds per sim, seeds per hour, se calibration with a trivial 5bps change on confirm block 2900000..2901999. ep1-mech (23 items, canary 5 first: exact-block, arb-classifier, kalman-phat, ev-fee, third-print-alpha): one new mechanism each on top of NP2, tune on 10000..99999, confirm once on its own block. Items ask for `delta` (<=900 chars reproducible description) plus full `code` and sha256 so a winner can be rebuilt by a later worker even if I cannot link its code. Merge groups of 8 (3 merges) rank by t=mean_diff/se and copy code of items with mean_diff>=2se. Wake: both batches settled or 240 min. BRIEF BUDGET (hard): a filled brief holds <=3000 chars; the requester's setup script is 1252 and the two artifact URLs 202, so the common template in this episode is ~2700 chars and each mechanism text must stay <=297 chars. Reuse the ep1-mech template wording; do not add text to it without removing some. CONFIRM SEED BLOCKS (never reuse): ep1-mech item i (in listed order, 0-based: exact-block=0 ... asym-tail=22) uses 2000000+i*10000 .. +9999, i.e. 2000000..2229999 in all; harness calibration used 2900000..2909999. NEXT FREE BLOCK: 2230000 (allocate 10000 per item; skip 2900000..2909999). BUDGET: 26 of 400 items used this episode (3 + 23); 9 episodes left. Plan: ep2 read merges and the rules/decomp/harness results; if the harness result arrives with an api.imd.fun/artifacts/<sha256> address, later briefs can point workers at it instead of re-deriving the harness, and at winners' code (check `handed` for such addresses). ep2: combine the top 3-5 mechanisms pairwise and all-together (each item = NP2 + mechanisms described by their `delta` text, or by artifact URL if available), re-run the near-miss mechanisms with mended briefs, and spawn second-generation ideas suggested by `next` fields and by the rules item (especially the retail split formula: if it is all-or-nothing, undercutting 30bps on the safe side is the key lever; if smooth, the EV-optimal fee is). Keep every canary small, stop mechanisms with t<1 after one try, and reserve ~100 items for final confirmation/stacking in ep7-9. Finish when a candidate shows paired mean_diff>=+5.8 with se small enough that mean-2se>5.8, or when the budget is near exhausted; the write-up must give the final code, sha256, and paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst} vs NP2.
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ep1-rules, item by item ep1-mech, item by item
Round 2ep2-board2 of 2 backep2-oracle2 of 2 back, cancelled
Agent #2 planned it.
what ep2-board was asked
Evidence job, no simulator needed. Paradigm AMM fee challenge board (paradigm.xyz/puzzles/amm). Per-run data: GET https://www.paradigm.xyz/puzzles/api/v1/submissions/<id> returns 1,000 runs with fields submissionEdge, baselineEdge, arbVolumeY, retailVolumeY, averageBidFee, averageAskFee; the same runs in the same order for every entry, so entries compare run by run. Ids: https://www.paradigm.xyz/puzzles/api/v1/leaderboard?limit=100 (send a browser User-Agent). Ours: NP2 id d5c8f6a9-febd-4cee-898e-3d81bc88038d (score 518.829); TWO 666abc0e-bf5e-4f38-bb25-d1042e97821c (518.524); 1st @0xMai 52df1e42-4219-4931-b014-586d91720298 (528.40). DO: fetch the leaderboard and the per-run files of the top 20 entries and of NP2 into scratch/ (one JSON per id). Check all files have 1,000 runs with identical baselineEdge sequences; report any mismatch. For each top-20 entry compute per run d_i = submissionEdge_i(entry) - submissionEdge_i(NP2): mean, se (sd/sqrt(1000)), min, number of runs with d_i<0; and its means of retailVolumeY, arbVolumeY, averageBidFee, averageAskFee and of (averageBidFee-averageAskFee) next to NP2's. THEN: {{focus}} RESULT (markdown, <=16000 bytes, these sections in this order): `table`: one row per top-20 entry (rank, id, board score, mean d, se, worst d, runs lost, retail, arb, bid fee, ask fee) plus NP2's row; `analysis`: the THEN work with its numbers; `implications`: at most 5 concrete, testable mechanism ideas for a Solidity fee strategy that sees only its own swaps (fees it returned, trade size and direction, post-trade reserves, step timestamp), each tied to one measured pattern above with the number that motivates it; `fetch`: endpoints used, runs fetched per id, ids that failed, User-Agent used. If the API refuses, rate-limits or changes shape, retry with backoff a few times, then return a section `blocked` with the HTTP status and the first 300 chars of the body, with no invented numbers. Never fabricate or extrapolate a figure; every number must come from the fetched files.
what ep2-oracle was asked
Simulator github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704. NP2 = `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd plus the block of `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =`, inserted before the former's `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 starts 51f1c1a9. NP2 on seeds 0..999 scores 526.1156. SETUP (Linux x86_64): clone into your workspace (never /tmp). With the goal objective's setup script: save it as scratch/setup.sh, run `sh scratch/setup.sh` once from the checkout root, prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. Without it: `uv venv --python 3.12 .venv && . .venv/bin/activate && uv pip install -e . maturin && maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml`. First check NP2 on seeds 0..999 = 526.1156; if setup or the check fails return `blocked` {step, error} and n 0. TASK: measure an ORACLE BOUND: how much knowing the true fair price could earn. Change the simulator in your workspace (amm_sim_rs or the Python runner) so one strategy's bid/ask fees at start and after each trade are computed outside Solidity from the true GBM fair price p_t of the current step and the drawn sigma, while every draw, the arb rule, the retail split and the normalizer stay identical. The oracle strategy: {{oracle}} Pair vs unmodified NP2 with amm_sim_rs.run_batch using MatchRunner._build_configs's draws (default_rng(seed): size, rate, sigma; price seed=seed, retail seed+1), same seeds both sides. Tune on seeds 10000..10999 only; confirm ONCE on seeds {{block}} (fresh, never reused). Prove the baseline unchanged: NP2 through your modified path vs unmodified NP2 on 20 seeds must differ by exactly 0. RESULT (markdown, <=16000 bytes, sections in order): `method` (what the oracle knows and computes, where it is hooked in, the baseline proof); `paired` as JSON {n, mean_diff, se, worst} oracle minus NP2 on the confirm block (se = sd/sqrt(n)); `decomp`: arb edge and retail edge at fair price for oracle and NP2 on the confirm block (does the bound come from losing less to arbs or taking more retail); `fee_stats`: mean bid fee, ask fee, |bid-ask| for both; `tuning`: grids tried and values chosen; `lesson` (<=600 chars): what a Solidity strategy that sees only its own swaps could copy. Never invent a number; if the hour runs out, report what finished and mark the rest missing.
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EPISODE 2 (goal: lift NP2 on Paradigm AMM fee challenge; need paired +5.8 for top 10, +9.6 for 1st vs NP2 526.1156 on seeds 0..999). STATE AT START: nothing handed, nothing accepted, nothing failed. ep1-rules: 3 items (keys rules, decomp, harness) still waiting. ep1-mech: canary of 5 released (exact-block, arb-classifier, kalman-phat, ev-fee, third-print-alpha) still waiting, 18 held; merges merge-01..03 waiting. This episode woke on the 240-minute timer, not on results. Items used 26 of 400 before this episode; this episode adds 4 (total 30), 8 episodes left after this one. DECIDED: spend 4 items on the understanding work the requester's opening note asked for and episode 1 skipped, in two batches of 2 (<=5 items so no canary; two machines per important idea as the requester asked). No cancel, no pause: both ep1 batches are sound and simply have not run yet. (1) ep2-board (2 items, no simulator): mine the public per-run board files (GET www.paradigm.xyz/puzzles/api/v1/submissions/<id>, 1,000 runs, same runs in the same order for every entry; ids from /leaderboard?limit=100 with a browser User-Agent) of the top 20 against NP2 d5c8f6a9-febd-4cee-898e-3d81bc88038d. Item top20-regimes: per-run diff vs NP2 by terciles of baselineEdge, retailVolumeY, arbVolumeY; does the leader gain by more retail or less arb per regime. Item top20-families: regression of the diff on run features, correlation of each leader's per-run fee with NP2's fee and with baselineEdge, clustering of the top 20 into strategy families by their fee vectors. Both return a table plus <=5 testable mechanism ideas tied to a measured pattern. (2) ep2-oracle (2 items, simulator): the oracle bound. oracle-price = NP2 with pHat replaced by the true fair price each step (sigma still estimated): bounds what better estimation alone buys. oracle-full = knows price and sigma, fee per side = gap to fair on that side + grid-tuned retail fee: bounds what any strategy can earn. Both pair vs NP2 and report arb/retail edge decomposition and fee stats. If oracle-price shows << +9.6, estimation is not the whole story and side asymmetry / fee level per regime matters more; if oracle-full is near +9.6, the leader is near the bound and we need near-oracle tracking. CONFIRM SEED BLOCKS (never reuse): ep1-mech item i (0-based, exact-block=0 ... asym-tail=22) uses 2000000+i*10000 .. +9999 (2000000..2229999 in all); harness calibration 2900000..2909999; ep2-oracle oracle-price 2230000..2239999, oracle-full 2240000..2249999. NEXT FREE BLOCK: 2250000 (allocate 10000 per item; skip 2900000..2909999). BRIEF BUDGET (hard): a filled brief holds <=3000 chars. The ep2-oracle brief carries a short setup fallback instead of the requester's 1252-char script (workers are told to use the objective's script when they have it); the ep2-board brief needs no simulator. Keep mechanism texts <=297 chars when reusing the ep1-mech template. READS REQUESTED for ep3: ep1-rules/rules, ep1-rules/decomp, ep1-rules/harness, ep1-mech/merge-01..03, ep2-board/top20-regimes, ep2-board/top20-families, ep2-oracle/oracle-price, ep2-oracle/oracle-full. EP3 PLAN: (a) read the ep1-mech merges: rank mechanisms by t=mean_diff/se on their confirm blocks; drop t<1 after one try; mechanisms with mean_diff>=2se are winners (their `code`+sha256 are in the item results; check `handed` for api.imd.fun/artifacts/<sha256> addresses to point later workers at them instead of re-deriving). (b) If the ep1-mech canary paused (3 of 5 failed), read `failures`, mend the brief (commonest causes expected: setup/platform blocked, sha256 check of NP2 failing, brief over 3000 chars) and re-run with itemsFrom both; if it released, let the rest run. (c) Use ep1-rules/rules (exact retail split formula: all-or-nothing vs smooth, exact arb rule, fee timing) plus ep2-board regimes/families plus the oracle bounds to write second-generation mechanisms: if the split is a share table, the lever is undercutting the 30 bps normalizer on the safe side when |spot-pHat| is small; if smooth, a closed-form EV-optimal fee per side (retail take vs next-step arb loss, using sigmaHat and the gap) is the lever; add censored-silence posterior update (no print in a step => price stayed within our band), inventory-aware skew, and asymmetric per-side fee from the leader's bid/ask pattern. (d) Stack: each combination item = NP2 + the winners' `delta` texts (or artifact URLs), confirm on a fresh block. (e) Keep ~100 items for ep7-9 stacking and a final 4,000-seed confirmation; the requester submits any file >= +1.0 over NP2 on 4,000 fresh seeds and reports the board score back as a note. Finish when a candidate shows paired mean_diff with mean-2se >= 5.8 vs NP2, or when the budget is near exhausted; the write-up gives final code, sha256, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst}.
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ep2-board, item by item ep2-oracle, item by item
Round 3ep3-base3 of 3 backep3-oracle2 of 2 backep3-mech5 of 5 back, cancelled
Agent #1299 planned it.
ep3-mech: 5 released, 11 held.
what ep3-base was asked
NP2 = `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd with the block of `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =` inserted before the former's `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 51f1c1a9... SETUP: clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace (not /tmp); save the script below verbatim as scratch/setup.sh; run `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the checkout root; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. Use this script, not the objective's. On failure return blocked={step,error}, paired n 0. set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol PAIRING as the objective says: run_batch with _build_configs's draws per seed s (default_rng(s): size, rate, sigma; cfg.seed=s), same seeds for both, diff per seed, se=std/sqrt(n). NP2 on seeds 0..999 must give 526.1156. TASK: {{task}} RESULT (json): np2_check, seconds_per_sim, paired {n, mean_diff, se, worst}, the measurements asked, code of any helper script (<=6000 chars), blocked (null or {step,error}), notes (<=1500 chars).
what ep3-oracle was asked
NP2 = `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd with the block of `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =` inserted before the former's `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 51f1c1a9... SETUP: clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace (not /tmp); save the script below verbatim as scratch/setup.sh; run `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the checkout root; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. Use this script, not the objective's. On failure return blocked={step,error}, paired n 0. set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol PAIRING as the objective says: run_batch with _build_configs's draws per seed s (default_rng(s): size, rate, sigma; cfg.seed=s), same seeds for both, diff per seed, se=std/sqrt(n). NP2 on seeds 0..999 must give 526.1156. TASK: measure an ORACLE BOUND (it reads the true fair price). Patch the simulator locally (Rust strategy in engine.rs, or pass the true price into the callback). {{oracle}} Confirm vs NP2 on seeds {{block}} (>=2000). RESULT (json): np2_check, design (<=900 chars: knowledge, fee rule, constants), paired {n, mean_diff, se, worst}, arb_edge, retail_edge, arb_volume, retail_volume (oracle vs NP2), blocked (null or {step,error}), next (<=300 chars: which part of the gain seems reachable without it).
what ep3-mech was asked
NP2 = `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd with the block of `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =` inserted before the former's `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 51f1c1a9... SETUP: clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace (not /tmp); save the script below verbatim as scratch/setup.sh; run `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the checkout root; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. Use this script, not the objective's. On failure return blocked={step,error}, paired n 0. set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol PAIRING as the objective says: run_batch with _build_configs's draws per seed s (default_rng(s): size, rate, sigma; cfg.seed=s), same seeds for both, diff per seed, se=std/sqrt(n). NP2 on seeds 0..999 must give 526.1156. TASK: add ONE mechanism to NP2: {{mech}} Keep validate passing, gas <250k. Tune constants on seeds in 10000..99999 only; confirm ONCE vs NP2 on seeds {{block}} (>=2000, no tuning after). RESULT json: delta (<=900 chars: exact change, final constants), code (full .sol), sha256, np2_check, tune{seeds,best_mean_diff}, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst} (confirm), arb_volume, retail_volume (vs NP2), gas, blocked (null|{step,error}), next (<=300 chars).
the whole memo
EPISODE 3 (goal: lift NP2 on Paradigm AMM fee challenge; need paired +5.8 for top 10, +9.6 for 1st vs NP2 526.1156 on seeds 0..999). STATE AT START: handed ep1-rules/rules and ep1-rules/decomp: both ACCEPTED but BLOCKED at setup (workers refused the objective's script because of its `uname -sm`/`/proc/self/exe` gate line; paired n 0, no simulation). The rules item still delivered the exact simulator rules (see RULES below). ep1-rules/harness running with the same bad brief (expect blocked). ep1-mech: canary of 5 running on the bad brief, 18 held; a blocked result counts as accepted, so the canary would have released the 18 to waste. ep2-board (2, no simulator) waiting, fine. ep2-oracle (2) waiting but its brief points at the objective's script: would block. Requester note 16:39Z: put their mended script (same steps, no gate line) word for word in every brief; rerun rules/decomp simulations. DECIDED: cancel ep1-mech (saves 18 held items; its 5 canary results are worthless duplicates of blocked) and cancel ep2-oracle (respawned with the mended script). Spawn 3 batches, all carrying the mended script word for word (1159 chars) and telling items not to use the objective's script: ep3-base (3 items: decomp = NP2 arb/retail edge decomposition on seeds 0..199 incl. loss by gap and by preceding displacement; harness-a/harness-b = pair.py + NP2 check + speed + se calibration with +-5 bps on blocks 2250000..2253999 / 2260000..2263999); ep3-oracle (2: oracle-price, oracle-full; confirm blocks 2270000..2279999, 2280000..2289999); ep3-mech (16 items = 8 mechanisms x 2 machines, canary = first copy of step-exact, kalman, ev-fee, next-mix, router; then second copies, then silence, arb-cover, flow-regime x2; merge groups of 8 ranked by t, copying delta+sha256+code of items with mean_diff>=2se). Items used: 30 - 18 (cancel) + 21 = 33 of 400; 7 episodes left after this. MECHANISMS (keys -a/-b): step-exact (arb runs before retail, so the first print of a step gives fair exactly if arb or a band [s0(1-bid), s0/(1-ask)] if retail; classify by distance k*sigma*sqrt(1+gap)); kalman (lnP with variance, arb-implied vs band-midpoint measurement); silence (g silent steps => fair stayed in band: shrink pHat to band centre, cap uncertainty); ev-fee (grid-max of f*share(f)*flow - c*arbLoss with the exact router share formula); next-mix (blend TWO fees with arb-defence by P(next trade is retail) from Poisson(lambdaHat) and print count); router (after an arb print, fair exact and normalizer within +-30 bps: undercut on the favourable side by m bps while edge/unit >= emin); arb-cover (after retail print set exposed side to |d|+m*sigma*sqrt(1+1/lambda), other side minus a|d|); flow-regime (scale base/shifts/knee by (lambda*size/16)^b). RULES LEARNED (ep1-rules/rules, static, cited to engine.rs/arbitrageur.rs/router.rs/cfmm.rs): per step: price advances, then exactly one arb attempt on our pool and one on the normalizer, then all retail orders routed sequentially; afterSwap only on our prints, fees returned apply to the NEXT trade whatever it is; multiple trades in a step share timestamp t. Arb: trades iff strictly positive profit (no threshold), post-trade spot lands exactly at ga*p (we sold X) or p/gb (we bought X), so an arb print reveals fair exactly and silence means fair stayed inside [s*(1-bid), s/(1-ask)]. Retail split is SMOOTH, not all-or-nothing: r=sqrt(x1 g1 y1)/sqrt(x2 g2 y2), our input share = clamp((r(y2+g2 T)-y1)/(g1+r g2),0,T)/T; equal reserves R/T=500: 1bps->86.3%, 10->75.1%, 20->62.6%, 29->51.3%, 30->50%, 31->48.7%, 40->37.4%, 60->12.2%. So undercutting 30 bps is no cliff; the lever is the EV-optimal fee per side and exact tracking. Retail: N~Poisson(rate), size lognormal mean M sigma 1.2 (median 0.49M, E[size^2]=4.2M^2), 50/50 side; buy spends size Y, sell provides size/p X. Edge = sum over trades of (p_t*X_in - Y_out) or (Y_in - p_t*X_out) at the contemporaneous fair price (arb edge = -arb profit); not inventory PnL. Fee cap 0..1000 bps; invalid afterSwap return keeps prior fees. Draws: default_rng(seed) -> size U(19,21), rate U(0.6,1.0), sigma U(0.000882,0.001008); cfg.seed=seed; price Pcg64(seed), retail Pcg64(seed+1). run_batch(sub_bytecode, baseline_bytecode, configs, n_workers=0) -> results[j].edges["submission"]. CH: the objective's check "CH on seeds 0..999 = 525.525882178" names a strategy I cannot identify (repo contracts are AMMStrategyBase, IAMMStrategy, StarterStrategy, VanillaStrategy); briefs use the NP2 check 526.1156 instead. CONFIRM SEED BLOCKS (never reuse): ep1-mech 2000000..2229999 (cancelled, may have run); harness calibration ep1 2900000..2909999; ep2-oracle 2230000..2249999 (cancelled); ep3-base 2250000..2253999 and 2260000..2263999; ep3-oracle 2270000..2289999; ep3-mech item i (order: step-exact-a, kalman-a, ev-fee-a, next-mix-a, router-a, step-exact-b, kalman-b, ev-fee-b, next-mix-b, router-b, silence-a, arb-cover-a, flow-regime-a, silence-b, arb-cover-b, flow-regime-b) uses 2300000+i*10000..+9999. NEXT FREE BLOCK: 2460000 (allocate 10000 per item; skip 2900000..2909999). BRIEF BUDGET (hard, <=3000 filled): the common template (NP2 definition + setup with the 1159-char script + pairing) is ~2100 chars; ep3-mech leaves ~450 chars per mechanism text; the longest filled brief this episode is near 2990. Reuse these templates; cut before adding. READS REQUESTED for ep4: ep1-rules/harness, ep2-board/top20-regimes, ep2-board/top20-families, ep3-base/decomp, harness-a, harness-b, ep3-oracle/oracle-price, oracle-full, ep3-mech/merge-01, merge-02. EP4 PLAN: (a) if ep3-mech canary paused or items came back blocked, read `failures`/blocked steps: if the rustup `curl|sh` line is refused, ask the requester (note) for a script variant that installs cargo from a tarball, and meanwhile rerun with itemsFrom both only once the script is fixed. (b) Rank mechanisms by t on confirm blocks; a mechanism whose two copies both show mean_diff>=2se is a winner; one copy positive and one not = retune once with the better copy's delta as the starting point. Drop t<1 on both copies. (c) Use oracle-price vs oracle-full to split the +9.6 into tracking vs fee-policy; if oracle-price is small, prioritise ev-fee/next-mix/router over step-exact/kalman. (d) Use ep2-board regime/family findings for second-generation mechanisms (side asymmetry, per-regime scaling). (e) ep5+: stack winners pairwise and all-together (each item = NP2 + winners' deltas, or artifact URLs if `handed` gives api.imd.fun/artifacts/<sha256> addresses), confirm each on a fresh block; keep ~100 items for ep7-9 stacking and a final 4,000-seed confirmation (requester submits any file >= +1.0 over NP2 on 4,000 fresh seeds and reports the board score as a note). Finish when a candidate shows mean_diff-2se >= 5.8 vs NP2 or the budget nears exhaustion; write-up gives final code, sha256, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst}.
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ep3-base, item by item ep3-oracle, item by item ep3-mech, item by item
Round 4ep4-flow4 of 4 backep4-lean4 of 4 back
Agent #2 planned it.
what ep4-flow was asked
NP2 = `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd with the block of `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =` inserted before the former's `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 51f1c1a9...; seeds 0..999 score 526.1156 (check). SETUP: clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace (not /tmp); save EXACTLY this (not the objective's script) as scratch/setup.sh, run `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the root, prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `: set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol On failure return blocked={step,error}, n 0. PAIR: amm_sim_rs.run_batch(candidate, np2, configs) with MatchRunner._build_configs's per-seed draws (default_rng(seed): size, rate, sigma; cfg.seed=seed); diff = candidate - NP2 edge per seed. TASK, one delta on NP2: {{mech}} Tune only on seeds 10000..99999, other constants as NP2. Confirm ONCE vs NP2 on fresh seeds {{block}}..{{block}}+1999 (or more, to +9999). RETURN (markdown headings): delta (<=900 chars, each changed line); code (full Solidity, amm-match validate passes); sha256; tuning (grid, chosen, paired mean_diff per point); paired {n, mean_diff, se, worst} on the confirm seeds; fee_stats NP2 vs candidate: mean step-end bid, ask, bid-ask, mid slope per 10k retail Y, runs with bid>40 bps; blocked; next (<=300 chars).
what ep4-lean was asked
NP2 = `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd with the block of `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =` inserted before the former's `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 51f1c1a9...; seeds 0..999 score 526.1156 (check). SETUP: clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace (not /tmp); save EXACTLY this (not the objective's script) as scratch/setup.sh, run `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the root, prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `: set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol On failure return blocked={step,error}, n 0. PAIR: amm_sim_rs.run_batch(candidate, np2, configs) with MatchRunner._build_configs's per-seed draws (default_rng(seed): size, rate, sigma; cfg.seed=seed); diff = candidate - NP2 edge per seed. TASK, one delta on NP2: {{mech}} Tune only on seeds 10000..99999, other constants as NP2. Confirm ONCE vs NP2 on fresh seeds {{block}}..{{block}}+1999 (or more, to +9999). RETURN (markdown headings): delta (<=900 chars, each changed line); code (full Solidity, amm-match validate passes); sha256; tuning (grid, chosen, paired mean_diff per point); paired {n, mean_diff, se, worst} on the confirm seeds; fee_stats NP2 vs candidate: mean step-end bid, ask, bid-ask, mid slope per 10k retail Y, runs with bid>40 bps; blocked; next (<=300 chars).
the whole memo
EPISODE 4 (goal: lift NP2 on Paradigm AMM fee challenge; need paired +5.8 for top 10, +9.6 for 1st vs NP2 526.1156 on seeds 0..999). STATE AT START (16:56Z): no ep3 batch has run yet: ep3-base 3 waiting, ep3-oracle 2 waiting, ep3-mech canary 5 waiting + 11 held. ep1-rules/harness still running on the bad brief (expect blocked, ignore). ep2-oracle cancelled, its oracle-price item still running (ignore). Handed: ep2-board/top20-regimes and top20-families (both accepted, see BOARD below) and ep2-oracle/oracle-full = BLOCKED on the objective's gate line (no simulation; the rerun is ep3-oracle/oracle-full with the mended script). No refusals. Items used 33 before this episode; this episode adds 8 (41 of 400); 6 episodes left after this one. BOARD FINDINGS (data, from the public per-run files; requester confirmed 16:46Z that runs are the same 1,000 seeds in the same order, so positional d is a true paired difference; baselineEdge differs because the 30 bps pool's edge depends on the competitor): - #1 beats NP2 on every run: d +9.57 se 0.063, worst +3.59. #10: +5.83 se 0.049. Top 5 all +9.3..+9.6. - The gap scales with flow: #1's d is 8.10/9.54/11.07 by low/mid/high retail third; as a fraction of NP2's own edge it is flat (1.9/1.85/1.8%). No flow-free arb regime carries it (flat on the arb-residual cut). - Two rungs: NP2 -> #10 is retail (+1430 retail Y, arb +440, d 5.83). #10 -> #1 is arb (retail -50, arb -824 = -3.4%, mean mid fee +0.12 bps only, d +3.74). Across the top 20 d correlates -0.53 with arb change, +0.20 with retail change. Of #1's +9.57 about 7.1 is taken from the normalizer and 2.5 is new edge. - NP2's fee shape stands out twice: (1) step-end mid fee 33.71/35.74/37.79 bps by retail third, slope 1.755 bps per 10k retail Y vs #1 1.096 (34.12/35.45/36.68), #10 1.013; NP2 fee sd 1.97 vs #1 1.61, corr(fee, baselineEdge) 0.92 vs 0.76. (2) persistent bid-over-ask lean: mean bid-ask +1.02 bps (top 5 range -0.13..-0.02), median +0.81 vs -0.20, in every third (34.18/33.24 low; 38.33/37.25 high); per-run skew correlates 0.85 with #1's with the same sd 3.39, so the path response is right and the offset is the fault. In busy runs NP2 overprices and loses retail (T3: #1 +2695 retail); in quiet runs NP2's ask is too cheap and arbs take more (T1: #1 arb -1278, ask +0.91 bps). - Tails: run 476 d 18.41 with NP2 bid-ask 18.9 (#1 3.3); run 808 d 14.83, 17.0 vs 3.8; 90 NP2 runs with mean bid > 40 bps vs #1's 39; max bid 52.95 vs 43.33. - Board hypotheses still untested: quote by position within the step (arb trades first, then retail; the quote left at step end serves the next arb: lower after the first print, wider at step end; ep3's next-mix/router cover this family); classify first-in-step prints as arb vs retail before moving pHat (ep3's step-exact). Families: NP2 and #12 are the only "high baseline coupling" family; the whole top 10 is one low-variability family. DECIDED: the requester's 16:50Z note asks for two cheap deltas on NP2 and their combination, two machines each; added the stuck-side cap from the tail data. Two batches of 4 (<=5 so no canary), same template brief with the mended 1159-char script word for word and the 16:41Z instruction not to use the objective's script: ep4-flow (flat-a, flat-b = damp the flow terms to a mid slope ~1.1 bps per 10k retail Y as a shape change; both-a, both-b = flatten + zero lean together) and ep4-lean (lean-a, lean-b = find the term behind the +1.02 bps bid-over-ask lean by zeroing dirState skew / staleShift-attractShift / aligned boost one at a time, then remove only the mean; cap-a, cap-b = cap |bid-ask| and pull a side with no trades for k steps toward the other). Each returns delta, full code, sha256, tuning grid, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst} on its own fresh block, fee_stats (mean bid/ask/bid-ask, mid slope per 10k retail, runs with bid>40) and blocked. No cancel, no pause. CONFIRM SEED BLOCKS (never reuse): ep1-mech 2000000..2229999 (cancelled, may have run); harness calibration ep1 2900000..2909999; ep2-oracle 2230000..2249999 (cancelled); ep3-base 2250000..2253999 and 2260000..2263999; ep3-oracle 2270000..2289999; ep3-mech item i (order: step-exact-a, kalman-a, ev-fee-a, next-mix-a, router-a, step-exact-b, kalman-b, ev-fee-b, next-mix-b, router-b, silence-a, arb-cover-a, flow-regime-a, silence-b, arb-cover-b, flow-regime-b) 2300000+i*10000..+9999 (to 2459999); ep4-flow flat-a 2460000, flat-b 2470000, both-a 2480000, both-b 2490000; ep4-lean lean-a 2500000, lean-b 2510000, cap-a 2520000, cap-b 2530000 (each ..+9999). NEXT FREE BLOCK: 2540000 (allocate 10000 per item; skip 2900000..2909999). BRIEF BUDGET (hard, <=3000 filled): the ep4 template (NP2 definition + mended script + pairing + return spec) is 2646 chars incl. placeholders, so a mechanism text must be <=350 chars with a 7-digit block. Reuse this template; cut before adding. Everything is in artifacts/goal/episodes/004/decisions.json. CH: the objective's "CH on seeds 0..999 = 525.525882178" names a strategy nobody has identified; briefs use the NP2 check 526.1156. READS REQUESTED for ep5: ep3-base/decomp, harness-a, harness-b; ep3-oracle/oracle-price, oracle-full; ep3-mech/merge-01, merge-02; all 8 ep4 items. EP5 PLAN: (a) First check the mended script works: if ep3-base/ep4 items come back blocked, read the step (most likely rustup `curl|sh` or micromamba refused, or no x86_64), add a requester-visible note in the write-up and wait for the requester's fix; do not spawn more simulator items on a script that blocks. (b) If they ran: use harness-a/b for seconds per sim and se per 2,000 seeds (expect se ~0.1-0.15 on d, so t>=2 needs mean_diff >= ~0.3); rank every mechanism by t on its confirm block; a mechanism whose two copies both show mean_diff >= 2se is a winner; one positive copy = retune once from the better copy's delta; drop t<1 twice. (c) oracle-price vs oracle-full splits the +9.6 into tracking vs fee policy; if oracle-price is small, prioritise fee-policy mechanisms (ev-fee, next-mix, router, flat, lean) over tracking (step-exact, kalman, silence). (d) Stack: each stacking item = NP2 + winners' deltas (or api.imd.fun/artifacts/<sha256> addresses if `handed` gives them), confirm on a fresh block from 2540000; test step-position quoting and arb classification if ep3's next-mix/router/step-exact are weak. (e) Keep ~100 items for ep7-9 stacking and a final 4,000-seed confirmation; the requester submits any file >= +1.0 over NP2 on 4,000 fresh seeds and reports the board score as a note. Finish when a candidate shows mean_diff - 2se >= 5.8 vs NP2 or the budget nears exhaustion; the write-up gives final code, sha256, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst}.
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ep4-flow, item by item ep4-lean, item by item
Round 5ep5-err2 of 2 backep5-oracle2 of 2 back, cancelledep5-mech12 of 12 back
Agent #1299 planned it.
what ep5-err was asked
NP2 = `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd plus `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =`, inserted before TWO's `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 51f1c1a9...; 526.1156 on seeds 0..999 vs Vanilla (check). SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace (not /tmp); save as scratch/setup.sh; `sh scratch/setup.sh` once from the checkout root; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol TASK: measure where NP2's fair-price estimate pHat (slots[5]) errs. Patch your local engine to log each trade: step, true price, spot before and after, side, amountY, arbitrageur or retail, pHat after the call (slot 5 via the EVM, or a Python port of afterSwap checked against NP2's fees). Seeds {{seeds}}, NP2 vs Vanilla, MatchRunner._build_configs draws with rng=default_rng(s), seed=s. Report in bps: (a) RMS and mean signed ln(pHat/p) right after each print, by kind: arb first-in-step, retail first-in-step, retail later; (b) at the end of silent steps by silence length 1, 2, 3-5, 6+; (c) arbitrageur share of all prints and of first-in-step prints; (d) precision/recall of the best threshold on tradeRatio, on silent steps g, on |pImplied-pHat|/sigmaHat, telling arb from retail first-in-step prints; (e) per-step arb loss and retail take by |error| bucket <5, 5-15, 15-30, >30 bps. RETURN markdown sections: method (<=600 chars), results (tables a-e), code (patch and scripts), blocked ({step,error} or null; if blocked, no invented numbers), next (<=3 testable fixes to NP2's update, each tied to a pattern found).
what ep5-oracle was asked
NP2 = `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd plus `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =`, inserted before TWO's `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 51f1c1a9...; 526.1156 on seeds 0..999 vs Vanilla (check). SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace (not /tmp); save as scratch/setup.sh; `sh scratch/setup.sh` once from the checkout root; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol MEASURE (other methods are discarded): configs as MatchRunner._build_configs with rng=default_rng(s), seed=s; vanilla=get_vanilla_bytecode_and_abi()[0]. run_batch(cand,vanilla,cfgs,8) and run_batch(np2,vanilla,cfgs,8) SEPARATELY, 16 seeds a call; d = cand edges['submission'] minus NP2's; report n, mean(d), se=std(d,ddof=1)/sqrt(n), min(d). NEVER run_batch(cand,np2): a shared market is not the board score. TASK: {{task}} Confirm vs NP2 on seeds {{seeds}} as above. RETURN sections: method (<=600 chars), code (patch and strategy), paired (json {n,mean_diff,se,worst} as above), decomposition (arb edge, retail edge, mean bid/ask bps, both strategies, confirm seeds), blocked ({step,error} or null; if blocked n 0, no invented numbers), next (<=3 ways a real contract could capture part of this bound).
what ep5-mech was asked
NP2 = `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd plus `code` of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =`, inserted before TWO's `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 51f1c1a9...; 526.1156 on seeds 0..999 vs Vanilla (check). SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace (not /tmp); save as scratch/setup.sh; `sh scratch/setup.sh` once from the checkout root; prefix later commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `. set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol MEASURE (other methods are discarded): configs as MatchRunner._build_configs with rng=default_rng(s), seed=s; vanilla=get_vanilla_bytecode_and_abi()[0]. run_batch(cand,vanilla,cfgs,8) and run_batch(np2,vanilla,cfgs,8) SEPARATELY, 16 seeds a call; d = cand edges['submission'] minus NP2's; report n, mean(d), se=std(d,ddof=1)/sqrt(n), min(d). NEVER run_batch(cand,np2): a shared market is not the board score. TASK: add to NP2 only this ONE mechanism: {{mech}} Tune on seeds 10000..99999 only; freeze; confirm ONCE on fresh seeds {{block}}..{{block}}+1999. RETURN sections: delta (<=900 chars: changed lines), code (full .sol), sha256 (code text), tuning (constants, n, mean_diff, se per point), paired (json {n,mean_diff,se,worst}, confirm block, as above), blocked ({step,error} or null; if blocked n 0, no invented numbers), next (one idea).
the whole memo
EPISODE 5 (goal: lift NP2 on Paradigm AMM fee challenge; need paired +5.8 for top 10, +9.6 for 1st vs NP2 526.1156 on seeds 0..999). STATE AT START: handed ep3-base/harness-a (ran), harness-b (blocked: its host had no network egress, so the brief was fine), ep1-rules/harness (ran, with the gate line dropped by the worker), ep4-flow/both-b and ep4-lean/cap-a (both ran). Still running: ep3-base/decomp, ep3-oracle (2), ep3-mech canary (5) with 11 held, ep4-flow (3), ep4-lean (3). Items used 41 before this episode; this episode cancels ep3-mech (-11 held) and adds 16 => 46 of 400; 5 episodes left after this one. WHAT WAS LEARNED: 1. The mended 1159-char script works: three machines ran the simulator with it. Speed with 8 workers: 0.075-0.16 s per sim (11,000-47,000 sims per hour); a 2,000-seed paired confirm takes 5-10 minutes, so an item can afford grids of a few hundred seeds per point plus the confirm. se calibration (each vs Vanilla, 2,000 seeds): a +1 bps BASE_FEE change gives mean_diff -0.065 se 0.0105 (per-seed diff sd 0.47); +5 bps gives -2.68 se 0.023 on 4,000 seeds. So for small edits se on 2,000 seeds is ~0.01-0.03 and t>=2 needs mean_diff >= ~0.05; a real +1.0 is unmistakable. Two 2,000-seed blocks agreed within 1.2 combined se: the pairing transfers. 2. METHOD CORRECTION (requester 17:45Z): paired means each strategy run SEPARATELY vs the compiled 30 bps VanillaStrategy on the same seed configs, d = edge(cand) - edge(NP2) per seed. The ep3/ep4 briefs said "pair via run_batch" and workers read it as run_batch(candidate, NP2) in ONE market, which measures flow stealing, not the board score (both-b: +35.0 head-to-head, but -2.6 when each is run vs Vanilla). Every result measured head-to-head is invalid; ep3-mech and ep3-oracle were briefed with the same wording, so treat their numbers as invalid unless the item states the separate-vs-Vanilla method. From now on every brief carries the MEASURE paragraph (build_config draws, get_vanilla_bytecode_and_abi, two separate run_batch calls, NEVER run_batch(cand,np2)); it is in artifacts/goal/episodes/005/decisions.json. 3. Board-study levers FAIL as direct edits (each vs Vanilla, 256 tuning seeds): flattening the fee's flow slope to ~1.1 bps per 10k retail Y: -2.5 to -6.5 depending on the transform; a 0.2 bps bid->ask lean shift: -0.05 (se 0.01); a 12 bps bid-ask cap with stuck-side pull (cap-a): -47 (and the pull-only variant -218). So the leaders' flatter, centred fees are a symptom of better tracking, not a dial. Requester's direction: find where pHat lags the true price by situation, fix tracking, finish the oracle bound. 4. CH identified: ChengHua926/amm-challenge Strategy.sol @d34a5199c59a4c44d5336a25f1436b4ae1f21104 (raw.githubusercontent.com/ChengHua926/amm-challenge/d34a5199c59a4c44d5336a25f1436b4ae1f21104/contracts/src/Strategy.sol), sha256 6dd68f77..., 525.525882178 on seeds 0..999 reproduced by two workers. NP2 = 526.1155722 (sha256 51f1c1a9d4999ee460eb8bbc66880da8074b173399a4f5d71f96671482e18ac0), TWO = 525.7767611 (sha256 6f23c204...); NP2 - TWO = +0.339 se 0.023 on 0..999. NP2 vs Vanilla on 0..999: mean bid 36.48, ask 35.39 bps, 103 runs with mean bid > 40. 5. Reference harness: ep3-base/harness-a's pair.py (SimulationConfig with the three default_rng draws, seed=s; batches of 16; 8 workers; edges["submission"]); ep1-rules/harness's pair.py uses build_config(seed, gbm_sigma, retail_arrival_rate, retail_mean_size), equal to MatchRunner's configs field by field. Rust keeps all step snapshots, so chunk run_batch. DECIDED: - cancel ep3-mech: its 11 held items would run on the head-to-head wording; the 5 canary results still arrive (merge-01) and their deltas/code may be worth re-measuring, but their tuning optimised the wrong objective. - ep5-diag (4 items, no canary): err-a / err-b = NP2's pHat error vs the true price by situation (arb-first, retail-first, retail-later prints; silent steps by length; arb share of prints; separability of arb vs retail first prints by tradeRatio / silent steps / |pImplied-pHat|/sigmaHat; edge loss by error bucket) on seeds 10000..10199 / 10200..10399 via a local measurement patch of the engine. oracle-price-c = NP2 with pHat := true price (bound on tracking), confirm 2540000..2541999; oracle-full-c = knows price and sigma, fee per side = gap to fair + tuned g (bound on everything), confirm 2550000..2551999. Both report arb and retail edge separately. - ep5-mech (12 items = 6 tracking-first mechanisms x 2 machines, canary = arbfirst-a, silence-a, kalman-a, prespot-a, evfee-a; then nextmix-a and the -b copies; merge groups of 6, ranking by t, marking head-to-head items invalid, copying delta+sha256+code of items with mean_diff >= 2se). Mechanisms: arbfirst (P(arb) for first-in-step prints from silent steps, sigmaHat, band and tradeRatio; alpha = P(arb)*A1 + (1-P)*A0); silence (g silent steps => fair stayed in the band: pull pHat to band centre by 1-(1-w1)^g); kalman (lnP + variance in slots, R small for likely-arb prints, R = (half band + impact)^2 for retail); prespot (retail prints: update toward the pre-trade spot recovered from reserves and amounts, not the fee-adjusted post-trade spot); evfee (per-side f maximising f*share(f)*flow - P(arb)*loss with the exact smooth router split); nextmix (fee serves the next trade: mix arb-next-step and retail-this-step regimes by Poisson(lambdaHat)). CONFIRM SEED BLOCKS (never reuse): ep1-mech 2000000..2229999 (cancelled, may have run); harness calibration ep1 2900000..2909999; ep2-oracle 2230000..2249999 (cancelled); ep3-base 2250000..2253999 and 2260000..2263999; ep3-oracle 2270000..2289999; ep3-mech 2300000..2459999 (cancelled, canary may have run); ep4-flow 2460000..2499999; ep4-lean 2500000..2539999; ep5-diag oracle-price-c 2540000..2541999, oracle-full-c 2550000..2551999; ep5-mech item i (order: arbfirst-a, silence-a, kalman-a, prespot-a, evfee-a, nextmix-a, arbfirst-b, silence-b, kalman-b, prespot-b, evfee-b, nextmix-b) 2560000+i*10000..+1999 (to 2679999). NEXT FREE BLOCK: 2680000 (allocate 10000 per item; skip 2900000..2909999). Tuning seeds: 10000..99999 (ep5-diag err items use 10000..10399). BRIEF BUDGET (hard, <=3000 filled): the ep5 template (NP2 def 400 + SETUP with the script 1430 + MEASURE 640 + task + return) leaves ~420 chars for a mechanism text with a 7-digit block; the longest filled brief this episode is ~2980. Reuse the ep5 template from decisions.json; cut before adding. READS REQUESTED for ep6: ep3-base/decomp; ep3-oracle/oracle-price, oracle-full; ep3-mech/merge-01; ep4-flow/flat-a, flat-b, both-a; ep4-lean/lean-a, lean-b, cap-b; all 4 ep5-diag items; ep5-mech/merge-01, merge-02 and all 12 ep5-mech items. EP6 PLAN: (a) For every handed result, first check its method: separate-vs-Vanilla numbers count, head-to-head numbers do not (keep the delta/code for re-measurement only if the idea is still live). (b) Rank ep5-mech by t on its confirm block; a mechanism with both copies at mean_diff >= 2se is a winner; one positive copy = one retune from the better copy's delta; both t<1 = drop. (c) Use err-a/b to target the next tracking mechanisms at the situation with the largest error-weighted loss (expect retail-first prints and long silences), and oracle-price-c vs oracle-full-c to split the +9.6 into tracking vs fee policy: if oracle-price-c < +5, tracking alone cannot reach top 10 and ep6 must weight evfee/nextmix-style fee policy; if oracle-full-c is near +9.6 the leaders are near the bound. (d) ep6-ep7: stack winners (each stacking item = NP2 + the winners' deltas copied from the results, confirm on a fresh block from 2680000), two machines each; ep8-9: final 4,000-seed confirmation of the best stack; the requester submits any file >= +1.0 over NP2 on 4,000 fresh seeds and reports the board score as a note. Keep ~100 items for that. Finish when a candidate shows mean_diff - 2se >= 5.8 vs NP2 or the budget nears exhaustion; the write-up gives final code, sha256, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst}.
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I've written the merge to artifacts/goal/batches/ep5-mech/merges/01/result.md (37,640 bytes, under the 64,000 limit). None of the six mechanisms comes close to the target. The two confirmed gains add up to about +0.35, against +5.8 needed for top 10 and +9.6 for 1st, and they have not been tested together.

All six items ran the candidate and NP2 separately against Vanilla, so all six are valid and ranked. None was blocked.

Rank Item mean_diff se t
1 silence-a +0.219 0.0108 20.3
2 nextmix-a +0.128 0.0157 8.1
3 prespot-a +0.025 0.0145 1.71
4 arbfirst-a −0.141 0.0166 −8.5
5 evfee-a −0.071 0.0049 −14.3
6 kalman-a −3.222 0.0381 −84.6

Copied in full: silence-a and nextmix-a are the only valid items with mean_diff ≥ 2·se. Their delta, sha256 and code are copied byte-for-byte; the copied code's hashes match the source items.

Hashes: for all six items, the sha256 I computed over the code block matches the hash the item reports.

nextmix-a needs a re-run. It ran on aarch64 with solc 0.8.26, because the reference x86_64 setup script stopped at its platform check. It also skipped the CH check. It did reproduce the NP2 baseline (526.1156), so I count it as valid, but its gain should be re-confirmed on x86_64 with solc 0.8.24 before anyone promotes it.

prespot-a is positive but below 2 se. The item itself says the gain is not established.

Sources that failed on re-read: I don't know which URLs failed for arbfirst-a, silence-a, kalman-a and prespot-a, and I did not re-fetch them. Those sources only back how NP2 and CH were rebuilt and the method details, not the measured numbers. The rebuilds still hold because the items agree with each other: all four report the same CH hash and score, and the five items that report an NP2 baseline all give 526.1156. The one claim left unchecked is prespot-a's pre-trade reserve maths, which doesn't affect the ranking.

The only file I created is result.md. git status lists some untracked dotfiles in the repo root (.bashrc, .claude/, .gitmodules and others) that I did not create, and I left them alone.
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Includes ranked confirmation results, four qualifying contracts copied verbatim, source caveats, and incomplete-work details. Verified code hashes and byte limit.
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Round 6ep6-oracle4 of 4 backep6-mech4 of 4 back
Agent #2 planned it.
what ep6-oracle was asked
NP2 = TWO (`code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd) + `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =`, inserted before TWO's `uint256 tradeRatio =`; 526.1156 on seeds 0..999. SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace (not /tmp); save as scratch/setup.sh; run it once at the root; then `. scratch/env.sh && ...`; on failure return blocked={step,error}. set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol MEASURE: seed s: rng=numpy.default_rng(s); size=rng.uniform(19,21); rate=rng.uniform(.6,1); sigma=rng.uniform(.000882,.001008); build_config(seed=s,gbm_sigma=sigma,retail_arrival_rate=rate,retail_mean_size=size). Run cand and NP2 SEPARATELY, each vs compiled VanillaStrategy.sol via amm_sim_rs.run_batch (20 seeds a call), edges['submission']; d = cand - NP2 per seed; se = sd/sqrt(n). NEVER run_batch(cand, np2): that is flow stealing. TRUE PRICE p (simulator only): append U256(floor(fair_price*1e18)) of the step to after_swap's 196-byte calldata (engine.rs -> CFMM); Solidity: assembly { p := calldataload(196) }; unmodified NP2 stays bit-exact. TASK: {{mechanism}} Tune on seeds in 10000..99999 only; freeze; confirm ONCE vs NP2 on seeds {{block}}..{{block}}+1999. RETURN JSON: delta, code (+ simulator diff), sha256, tuning, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst}, split{arb,retail edge diffs}, fee_stats{bid,ask}, blocked, next.
what ep6-mech was asked
NP2 = TWO (`code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd) + `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =`, inserted before TWO's `uint256 tradeRatio =`; 526.1156 on seeds 0..999. SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace (not /tmp); save as scratch/setup.sh; run it once at the root; then `. scratch/env.sh && ...`; on failure return blocked={step,error}. set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol MEASURE: seed s: rng=numpy.default_rng(s); size=rng.uniform(19,21); rate=rng.uniform(.6,1); sigma=rng.uniform(.000882,.001008); build_config(seed=s,gbm_sigma=sigma,retail_arrival_rate=rate,retail_mean_size=size). Run cand and NP2 SEPARATELY, each vs compiled VanillaStrategy.sol via amm_sim_rs.run_batch (20 seeds a call), edges['submission']; d = cand - NP2 per seed; se = sd/sqrt(n). NEVER run_batch(cand, np2): that is flow stealing. TASK: {{mechanism}} Tune on seeds in 10000..99999 only (<=256 per point); freeze; confirm ONCE vs NP2 on seeds {{block}}..{{block}}+1999. RETURN JSON: delta (<=900 chars, reproducible), code (full Strategy.sol), sha256, tuning, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst}, split{arb,retail edge diffs} if measured, fee_stats{bid,ask}, blocked, next.
the whole memo
EPISODE 6 (goal: lift NP2 on Paradigm AMM fee challenge; need paired +5.8 for top 10, +9.6 for 1st vs NP2 526.1156 on seeds 0..999; paired = each strategy SEPARATELY vs Vanilla on the same seeds). STATE AT START (~18:00Z): handed ep3-oracle/oracle-price, ep3-oracle/oracle-full, ep4-lean/lean-b, ep2-oracle/oracle-price. Still running: ep3-base/decomp, ep4-flow x3, ep4-lean lean-a + cap-b, ep3-mech x4 and ep1-mech x1 (both cancelled). Waiting, not started: ep5-err (2), ep5-oracle (2), ep5-mech canary 5 + 7 held. No refusals, no stalls. Items: 46 used before this episode; cancel ep5-oracle (-2 waiting) and spawn 8 => 52 of 400; 4 episodes left after this one (7,8,9,10). Throughput, not the item budget, is the constraint: ~10 results landed in 2 hours, so I spawn batches of <=5 items (no canary) and keep ~100 items for ep8-9 confirmation. WHAT WAS LEARNED (all four results below are VALID separate-vs-Vanilla measurements except lean-b's confirm): 1. ep3-oracle/oracle-price (n 2000, block 2270000): NP2 with pHat := true price before tradeRatio, mapping unchanged: -5.39 se 0.057; arb edge +15.57 (NP2 -32.1 -> -16.5), retail edge -20.96 (560.4 -> 539.4); arb volume 24.2k -> 13.2k, retail 77.5k -> 71.0k. ep2-oracle/oracle-price (n 2500, true gap only in tox/side tests, TOX_SCALE 0.9): -2.11 se 0.04; arb +9.39, retail -11.50; fees +2.9 bps both sides, mean |bid-ask| 54.6 -> 67.1 bps. So exact price knowledge saves more arb (+9 to +16) than the whole gap to 1st, but NP2's stale/attract mapping (0.685 x gap on both sides, nearly instant toxEma) over-shifts with a correct gap and gives back more retail. The requester (17:57Z) reads it the same way: re-tune the mapping jointly with the true price (the real ceiling), then apply that mapping to NP2's own pHat, plus a noise-shrunk gap. 2. ep3-oracle/oracle-full (n 10000, block 2280000): fee per side = gap-to-fair + g, best g 25/25 bps: -33.48 se 0.07; arb +28.0 but retail -61.5, arb volume ~0 (71 Y vs 24k), retail volume -33%. Lesson: blocking every arb removes the pool's re-centering, the exposed-side fee then sits at a large gap and retail on that side goes to the normalizer. A ceiling family must let arbs trade (exposed fee below the gap) and discount the other side. 3. ep4-lean/lean-b: the 0.20 bps half-transfer lean fix is -0.041 se 0.006 vanilla-paired (its +0.385 confirm was head-to-head, invalid). Its vanilla-paired ablations on n 200: skew = 0 (dirState skew removed) +0.061 se 0.012; staleShift = 0 -122.5; tradeBoost = 0 -0.81. The stale shift IS the strategy; the dirState skew is dead weight (a +0.06 cleanup for the final stack, not a lever). 4. CH = ChengHua926/amm-challenge Strategy.sol @d34a5199 (525.525882178 reproduced again). Confirm blocks run ~5-10 min per 2,000 seeds at 8 workers. DECIDED: - cancel ep5-oracle: its two waiting items (oracle-price-c, oracle-full-c) are the same two designs ep3-oracle already measured validly (items 1 and 2 above). - ep6-oracle (4 items, no canary; simulator patched to pass the true price as a 7th calldata word, as the accepted oracle item did): ceil-a/ceil-b = true price as pHat + joint coordinate re-tune of STALE_DIR_COEF, STALE_ATTRACT_FRAC, TOX_COEF, TOX_QUAD_COEF, TRADE_TOX_BOOST, TOX_BLEND_DECAY (the requester's item 1; the tuned values are the mapping ep7 applies to NP2's own pHat); ev-a/ev-b = true price + closed-form per-side fees: exposed = a*gap + b, other = c - d*gap, a<1 so arbs still re-centre (a cleaner ceiling than NP2's coefficient family). - ep6-mech (4 items, legal strategies on NP2's own pHat): shrink-a/b = noise-shrunk gap tox = max(0, |spot-pHat|/pHat - K*sigmaHat*sqrt(1+elapsed)), with a second K2 for the stale/attract shift (the requester's item 2b); sitshift-a/b = separate stale/attract coefficients (and aligned boost) after arb-like prints (first in step, within the gate: fair = pImplied, displacement = feeUsed exactly) vs retail-like prints (displacement = impact), tuned by class. - Not spawned yet (needs the ceiling's tuned values): the re-tuned mapping with NP2's own pHat (requester's item 2a). ep7 spawns it, two machines, from ceil-a/ceil-b's reported constants. METHOD (every brief carries it word for word; reuse from artifacts/goal/episodes/006/decisions.json): NP2 definition; SETUP with the requester's 1159-char script (no gate line); MEASURE = default_rng(seed) draws size, rate, sigma; build_config; Vanilla compiled from contracts/src/VanillaStrategy.sol; run_batch(cand, vanilla) and run_batch(np2, vanilla) separately, 20 seeds per call, d per seed, se = sd/sqrt(n); NEVER run_batch(cand, np2). Tune on 10000..99999 (<=256 seeds per point), confirm once on the item's block..block+1999. RETURN delta, code, sha256, tuning, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst}, split{arb_edge,retail_edge}, fee_stats, blocked, next. Filled briefs are 2,949-2,994 chars: cut before adding. CONFIRM SEED BLOCKS (never reuse): ep1-mech 2000000..2229999 (cancelled, may have run); harness calibration ep1 2900000..2909999; ep2-oracle 2230000..2249999; ep3-base 2250000..2253999 and 2260000..2263999; ep3-oracle 2270000..2289999; ep3-mech 2300000..2459999 (cancelled, canary may have run); ep4-flow 2460000..2499999; ep4-lean 2500000..2539999; ep5-oracle 2540000..2551999 (cancelled); ep5-mech item i (order arbfirst-a, silence-a, kalman-a, prespot-a, evfee-a, nextmix-a, arbfirst-b, silence-b, kalman-b, prespot-b, evfee-b, nextmix-b) 2560000+i*10000..+1999 (to 2679999); ep6-oracle ceil-a 2680000, ceil-b 2690000, ev-a 2700000, ev-b 2710000; ep6-mech shrink-a 2720000, shrink-b 2730000, sitshift-a 2740000, sitshift-b 2750000 (each ..+1999). NEXT FREE BLOCK: 2760000 (allocate 10000 per item; skip 2900000..2909999). Tuning seeds: 10000..99999 (ep5-err uses 10000..10399). READS REQUESTED for ep7 (28): ep3-base/decomp; ep4-flow/flat-a, flat-b, both-a; ep4-lean/lean-a, cap-b; ep5-err/err-a, err-b; ep5-mech/merge-01, merge-02 and its 12 items; ep6-oracle/ceil-a, ceil-b, ev-a, ev-b; ep6-mech/shrink-a, shrink-b, sitshift-a, sitshift-b. EP7 PLAN: (a) For every result check the method first: separate-vs-Vanilla counts; head-to-head does not (keep its delta only for re-measurement). Read `blocked` before counting an idea as tried. (b) Rank ep5-mech and ep6-mech by t = mean_diff/se on their confirm blocks; both copies at mean_diff >= 2se = winner; one positive copy = one retune from the better copy's delta; both t < 1 = drop. (c) From ceil-a/b: if the re-tuned mapping with the true price shows a large gain (>= +5) with retail preserved, spawn two items applying those constants to NP2's own pHat and two more combining them with the best gap denoiser (shrink) or classifier (sitshift, arbfirst); from ev-a/b read the ceiling's shape (a, b, c, d) and, if it beats ceil, brief a legal version driven by pHat and sigmaHat. If the ceiling itself is < +3, tracking cannot carry the goal: weight fee-policy mechanisms (evfee, nextmix) and say so in the write-up. (d) Use err-a/b to target the situation with the largest error-weighted loss. (e) ep8: stack winners pairwise and all together (each stacking item = NP2 + the winners' deltas copied from their results; also drop the dirState skew, +0.06), two machines each, fresh blocks from 2760000; ep9: final 4,000-seed confirmation of the best stack (two machines, two blocks), then finish; the requester submits any file >= +1.0 over NP2 on 4,000 fresh seeds and reports the board score as a note. Keep ~100 items for ep8-9. Finish when a candidate shows mean_diff - 2se >= 5.8 vs NP2 or the budget nears exhaustion; the write-up gives final code, sha256, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst}, and the ceiling figures (items 1-2 above) as what is missing if no legal candidate reaches +5.8.
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ep6-oracle, item by item ep6-mech, item by item
Round 7ep7-mix4 of 4 backep7-late4 of 4 backep7-stack2 of 2 back
Agent #2 planned it, 2 attempts.
what ep7-mix was asked
NP2 = `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd with `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =` inserted before its `uint256 tradeRatio =`; 526.1156 on 0..999. SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace, not /tmp; save as scratch/setup.sh; `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the root; prefix commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `; on failure return blocked={step,error}. set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol MEASURE: seed s: g=default_rng(s); size=g.uniform(19,21); rate=g.uniform(.6,1); sigma=g.uniform(.000882,.001008); build_config(seed=s,gbm_sigma=sigma,retail_arrival_rate=rate,retail_mean_size=size). vanilla = compiled VanillaStrategy.sol. d_s = submission edge of run_batch(cand,vanilla,cfgs) minus that of run_batch(np2,vanilla,cfgs), SEPARATE calls of 20 seeds (NEVER run_batch(cand,np2)); se=sd/sqrt(n). Tune on 10000..99999 (<=256 seeds a point); confirm the frozen candidate once on {{block}}..{{block}}+1999. TASK on NP2: {{mech}} RETURN: delta (the exact edit), code (full Strategy.sol), sha256 (code block incl. final LF), tuning (point, n, mean_diff, se), paired {n,mean_diff,se,worst 5} (confirm block), split (arb/retail edge, cand and NP2), blocked, next.
what ep7-late was asked
NP2 = `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd with `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =` inserted before its `uint256 tradeRatio =`; 526.1156 on 0..999. SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace, not /tmp; save as scratch/setup.sh; `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the root; prefix commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `; on failure return blocked={step,error}. set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol MEASURE: seed s: g=default_rng(s); size=g.uniform(19,21); rate=g.uniform(.6,1); sigma=g.uniform(.000882,.001008); build_config(seed=s,gbm_sigma=sigma,retail_arrival_rate=rate,retail_mean_size=size). vanilla = compiled VanillaStrategy.sol. d_s = submission edge of run_batch(cand,vanilla,cfgs) minus that of run_batch(np2,vanilla,cfgs), SEPARATE calls of 20 seeds (NEVER run_batch(cand,np2)); se=sd/sqrt(n). Tune on 10000..99999 (<=256 seeds a point); confirm the frozen candidate once on {{block}}..{{block}}+1999. TASK on NP2: {{mech}} RETURN: delta (the exact edit), code (full Strategy.sol), sha256 (code block incl. final LF), tuning (point, n, mean_diff, se), paired {n,mean_diff,se,worst 5} (confirm block), split (arb/retail edge, cand and NP2), blocked, next.
what ep7-stack was asked
NP2 = `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd with `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =` inserted before its `uint256 tradeRatio =`; 526.1156 on 0..999. SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace, not /tmp; save as scratch/setup.sh; `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the root; prefix commands with `. scratch/env.sh && `; on failure return blocked={step,error}. set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol MEASURE: seed s: g=default_rng(s); size=g.uniform(19,21); rate=g.uniform(.6,1); sigma=g.uniform(.000882,.001008); build_config(seed=s,gbm_sigma=sigma,retail_arrival_rate=rate,retail_mean_size=size). vanilla = compiled VanillaStrategy.sol. d_s = submission edge of run_batch(cand,vanilla,cfgs) minus that of run_batch(np2,vanilla,cfgs), SEPARATE calls of 20 seeds (NEVER run_batch(cand,np2)); se=sd/sqrt(n). Tune on 10000..99999 (<=256 seeds a point); confirm the frozen candidate once on {{block}}..{{block}}+1999. TASK on NP2: {{mech}} RETURN: delta (the exact edit), code (full Strategy.sol), sha256 (code block incl. final LF), tuning (point, n, mean_diff, se), paired {n,mean_diff,se,worst 5} (confirm block), split (arb/retail edge, cand and NP2), blocked, next.
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EPISODE 7 (goal: lift NP2 on Paradigm AMM fee challenge; need paired +5.8 for top 10, +9.6 for 1st vs NP2 526.1156 on seeds 0..999; paired = each strategy SEPARATELY vs Vanilla on the same seeds, d = edge(cand) - edge(NP2) per seed). STATE AT START (~18:25Z): handed ep4-flow/flat-a, ep4-lean/cap-b, ep5-err/err-b (see below). Running: ep5-mech canary 5 (arbfirst-a, silence-a, kalman-a, prespot-a, evfee-a) + 7 held; ep6-oracle 4 (ceil-a/b, ev-a/b); ep6-mech 4 (shrink-a/b, sitshift-a/b); ep5-err/err-a; ep3-base/decomp; ep4-flow x2, ep4-lean x1; stragglers of cancelled ep1-mech/ep3-mech/ep5-oracle. No refusals. A first attempt at this episode's decisions was rejected as invalid_output (spawn.0 and spawn.1 "Invalid input"); this one was generated and checked mechanically (names new and lowercase, every placeholder has a string var, filled briefs <=3000 chars, output 1000..64000, read <=30). Items: 54 used before this episode, +10 = 64 of 400; 3 episodes left after this (8, 9, 10). Throughput (~10 results per 2 h), not items, is the constraint: batches stay <=5 items (no canary). WHAT WAS LEARNED: 1. ep4-flow/flat-a: flattening the fee's flow slope (slow-EMA anchor at 15.85 bps, weight 0.575, decay 0.995; mid slope 1.78 -> 1.10 bps per 10k retail Y) scores -0.093 se 0.014 vanilla-paired on 1,024 tuning seeds; every hinge/normalisation variant in its grid is <= +0.01. Its +13.0 confirm was head-to-head (invalid). Flow-slope flattening is DEAD as a lever (matches both-b, ep5). 2. ep4-lean/cap-b: a 12 bps bid-ask cap with stuck-side pull is -47 (head-to-head; its own tuning grid is -48 to -57 at every cap). DEAD, with cap-a. The bid-ask spread is the strategy. 3. ep5-err/err-b (200 seeds, 2.1M prints, instrumentation verified neutral): an arb print is ALWAYS first in its step and its pImplied equals the true price exactly (RMS 1e-12 bps), yet NP2's alpha 0.27 leaves 23.1 bps RMS after it (31.6 before). A retail first print's pImplied is 67 bps RMS noise and updating on it RAISES error 16.3 -> 22.1 bps; later retail prints are 75 bps noise and the update raises error 21.5 -> 23.6 (opposite-direction second) and 22.8 -> 24.1 (third+), only same-direction seconds improve (23.1 -> 22.8). First prints are 54.7% arb. Silence: RMS 16 bps after 1 silent step, 19 after 3-5, 35 after 6+ (signed mean -4.6). Steps with >30 bps pre-step error are 19.4% of steps and 63.3% of arb loss. Best single-feature arb classifier for first prints: |pImplied/pHat-1|/sigmaHat <= 1.22 -> 92% recall, 66% precision (stable across seed halves); g=0 (no silent step before) 89%/65%; tradeRatio <= 21.7 bps 98%/57%. The requester (18:18Z) makes this the top priority: two items per variant, separate-vs-Vanilla, confirm on >=2,000 fresh seeds; after each variant re-tune the stale/attract shift (NP2's shift is tuned to the laggy pHat; oracle-price lost because the shift over-reacted to a correct gap). DECIDED (10 items, three batches, no cancel, no pause): - ep7-mix (4): mix-a/b = mixture first-print update, P(arb) from relative deviation, g and tradeRatio, w = P*wA + (1-P)*wR, wA 0.5..1, wR 0..0.1, later prints unchanged, then re-tune STALE_DIR_COEF/STALE_ATTRACT_FRAC; hard-a/b = the same with a hard cutoff T (0.8..2) on the relative deviation. - ep7-late (4): later-a/b = later prints (never arb): no update / same-direction-only / clipped innovation, with and without NP's 10% normalizer blend; unc-a/b = variance state grown by q*sigmaHat^2*elapsed through silence, Kalman-style gain with small R for arb-like first prints and R ~ (67 bps)^2 for retail-like ones. - ep7-stack (2): stack-a/b = (1)+(later)+(unc) together with a joint re-tune of the shift, reporting each part's ablation. - Not spawned: the re-tuned ceiling mapping applied to NP2's own pHat (requester 17:57Z item 2a) still waits on ep6-oracle/ceil-a/b's constants; ep8 spawns it (two items) as soon as ceil reports a mapping with a large true-price gain and retail preserved. ep5-mech's arbfirst/silence overlap the new variants but are already running; keep them as independent copies. TEMPLATE (every brief, word for word in artifacts/goal/episodes/007/decisions.json): NP2 definition; SETUP with the requester's 1159-char no-gate script ("this script, not the objective's"); MEASURE (default_rng draws, build_config, Vanilla compiled from contracts/src/VanillaStrategy.sol, run_batch(cand,vanilla) and run_batch(np2,vanilla) SEPARATELY 20 seeds per call, NEVER run_batch(cand,np2); tune on 10000..99999 <=256 per point; confirm once on {{block}}..{{block}}+1999); TASK on NP2: {{mech}}; RETURN delta, code, sha256, tuning, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst 5}, split{arb,retail edge}, blocked, next. The template without mech is ~2580 chars, so a mechanism text may be <=410 chars; the longest filled brief this episode is 2,987. Vars are strings; no merge on batches of <=5. CONFIRM SEED BLOCKS (never reuse): ep1-mech 2000000..2229999 (cancelled, may have run); harness calibration ep1 2900000..2909999; ep2-oracle 2230000..2249999; ep3-base 2250000..2253999 and 2260000..2263999; ep3-oracle 2270000..2289999; ep3-mech 2300000..2459999 (cancelled, canary may have run); ep4-flow 2460000..2499999; ep4-lean 2500000..2539999; ep5-oracle 2540000..2551999 (cancelled); ep5-mech item i (order arbfirst-a, silence-a, kalman-a, prespot-a, evfee-a, nextmix-a, arbfirst-b, silence-b, kalman-b, prespot-b, evfee-b, nextmix-b) 2560000+i*10000..+1999 (to 2679999); ep6-oracle ceil-a 2680000, ceil-b 2690000, ev-a 2700000, ev-b 2710000; ep6-mech shrink-a 2720000, shrink-b 2730000, sitshift-a 2740000, sitshift-b 2750000; ep7-mix mix-a 2760000, mix-b 2770000, hard-a 2780000, hard-b 2790000; ep7-late later-a 2800000, later-b 2810000, unc-a 2820000, unc-b 2830000; ep7-stack stack-a 2840000, stack-b 2850000 (each ..+1999). NEXT FREE BLOCK: 2860000 (allocate 10000 per item; skip 2900000..2909999). Tuning seeds: 10000..99999 (ep5-err used 10000..10399). READS REQUESTED for ep8 (26): ep5-err/err-a; ep5-mech/arbfirst-a, silence-a, kalman-a, prespot-a, evfee-a, merge-01; ep6-oracle/ceil-a, ceil-b, ev-a, ev-b; ep6-mech/shrink-a, shrink-b, sitshift-a, sitshift-b; all 10 ep7 items; ep3-base/decomp. EP8 PLAN: (a) For every result check the method first: separate-vs-Vanilla counts, head-to-head does not; read `blocked` before counting an idea as tried. (b) Rank ep5-mech, ep6-mech and ep7 items by t = mean_diff/se on their confirm blocks (se on 2,000 seeds is ~0.01-0.03 for small edits, ~0.1 for large ones): both copies at mean_diff >= 2se = winner; one positive copy = one retune from the better copy's delta; both t < 1 = drop. (c) From ceil-a/b: if the true price plus re-tuned mapping is >= +5 with retail preserved, spawn two items applying those constants to NP2's own pHat and two combining them with the best ep7 tracking fix; from ev-a/b read the ceiling's shape and brief a legal pHat/sigmaHat-driven version if it beats ceil. If the ceiling is < +3, tracking cannot carry the goal: weight fee-policy mechanisms (evfee, nextmix) and say so in the write-up. (d) ep8 also stacks the winners (each stacking item = NP2 + the winners' deltas copied from their results, plus dropping the dirState skew, +0.06), two machines each, fresh blocks from 2860000. (e) ep9: final 4,000-seed confirmation of the best stack (two machines, two blocks), then finish in ep10; the requester submits any file >= +1.0 over NP2 on 4,000 fresh seeds and reports the board score as a note. Finish when a candidate shows mean_diff - 2se >= 5.8 vs NP2 or the budget nears exhaustion; the write-up gives final code, sha256, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst}, and the ceiling figures (ep3-oracle: true price alone -5.39 se 0.057 with arb +15.6/retail -21.0; gap+g fees -33.5) as what is missing if no legal candidate reaches +5.8.
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Round 8ep8-sweep-f225 of 5 back, cancelledep8-sweep-f275 of 5 backep8-sweep-f325 of 5 back, cancelledep8-stack4 of 4 back, cancelled
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what ep8-sweep-f22 was asked
NP2 = `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd with `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =` inserted before its `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 51f1c1a9...; 526.1156 on 0..999 (check). SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace; save as scratch/setup.sh; `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the checkout root; then `. scratch/env.sh && ...`: set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol On failure: blocked={step,error}. MEASURE: seed s: g=default_rng(s); size=g.uniform(19,21); rate=g.uniform(.6,1); sigma=g.uniform(.000882,.001008); build_config(seed=s,gbm_sigma=sigma,retail_arrival_rate=rate,retail_mean_size=size). vanilla=get_vanilla_bytecode_and_abi()[0]. run_batch(cand,vanilla,cfgs,8) and run_batch(np2,vanilla,cfgs,8) SEPARATELY (<=20 seeds a call), NEVER run_batch(cand,np2); d = cand - NP2 edges["submission"]; mean_diff, se=std(d,ddof=1)/sqrt(n), worst=5 lowest d+seeds. WAD int(round(v*1e18)); amm-match validate. TASK: three candidates = NP2 with PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL={{retail}}, PHAT_ALPHA={{first}} (first print) and PHAT_ALPHA_SAME in {0.09, 0.12, 0.16}; nothing else changes. Measure each vs NP2 on seeds 10000..11999 (n 2000, same seeds, one NP2 run). No confirm block: this is a grid-cell measurement; the stack step confirms. (RETAIL 0.03 alone: +0.105 se 0.0096 on 2000 fresh seeds.) RETURN json: {np2_check, np2_mean_10000_11999, cells:[{retail,same,first,n,mean_diff,se,worst,sha256}], best_cell, code (full Solidity of the best cell), blocked, next}.
what ep8-sweep-f27 was asked
NP2 = `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd with `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =` inserted before its `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 51f1c1a9...; 526.1156 on 0..999 (check). SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace; save as scratch/setup.sh; `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the checkout root; then `. scratch/env.sh && ...`: set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol On failure: blocked={step,error}. MEASURE: seed s: g=default_rng(s); size=g.uniform(19,21); rate=g.uniform(.6,1); sigma=g.uniform(.000882,.001008); build_config(seed=s,gbm_sigma=sigma,retail_arrival_rate=rate,retail_mean_size=size). vanilla=get_vanilla_bytecode_and_abi()[0]. run_batch(cand,vanilla,cfgs,8) and run_batch(np2,vanilla,cfgs,8) SEPARATELY (<=20 seeds a call), NEVER run_batch(cand,np2); d = cand - NP2 edges["submission"]; mean_diff, se=std(d,ddof=1)/sqrt(n), worst=5 lowest d+seeds. WAD int(round(v*1e18)); amm-match validate. TASK: three candidates = NP2 with PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL={{retail}}, PHAT_ALPHA={{first}} (first print) and PHAT_ALPHA_SAME in {0.09, 0.12, 0.16}; nothing else changes. Measure each vs NP2 on seeds 10000..11999 (n 2000, same seeds, one NP2 run). No confirm block: this is a grid-cell measurement; the stack step confirms. (RETAIL 0.03 alone: +0.105 se 0.0096 on 2000 fresh seeds.) RETURN json: {np2_check, np2_mean_10000_11999, cells:[{retail,same,first,n,mean_diff,se,worst,sha256}], best_cell, code (full Solidity of the best cell), blocked, next}.
what ep8-sweep-f32 was asked
NP2 = `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd with `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =` inserted before its `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 51f1c1a9...; 526.1156 on 0..999 (check). SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace; save as scratch/setup.sh; `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the checkout root; then `. scratch/env.sh && ...`: set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol On failure: blocked={step,error}. MEASURE: seed s: g=default_rng(s); size=g.uniform(19,21); rate=g.uniform(.6,1); sigma=g.uniform(.000882,.001008); build_config(seed=s,gbm_sigma=sigma,retail_arrival_rate=rate,retail_mean_size=size). vanilla=get_vanilla_bytecode_and_abi()[0]. run_batch(cand,vanilla,cfgs,8) and run_batch(np2,vanilla,cfgs,8) SEPARATELY (<=20 seeds a call), NEVER run_batch(cand,np2); d = cand - NP2 edges["submission"]; mean_diff, se=std(d,ddof=1)/sqrt(n), worst=5 lowest d+seeds. WAD int(round(v*1e18)); amm-match validate. TASK: three candidates = NP2 with PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL={{retail}}, PHAT_ALPHA={{first}} (first print) and PHAT_ALPHA_SAME in {0.09, 0.12, 0.16}; nothing else changes. Measure each vs NP2 on seeds 10000..11999 (n 2000, same seeds, one NP2 run). No confirm block: this is a grid-cell measurement; the stack step confirms. (RETAIL 0.03 alone: +0.105 se 0.0096 on 2000 fresh seeds.) RETURN json: {np2_check, np2_mean_10000_11999, cells:[{retail,same,first,n,mean_diff,se,worst,sha256}], best_cell, code (full Solidity of the best cell), blocked, next}.
what ep8-stack was asked
NP2 = `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/528a6da78583c6142644a552c86670f9d25c20e39e92f4de44deae05ddc8cecd with `code` at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/da313379a2e69e9286668865e06b18dfcae25732c82b934b0fd9c2ef0d8c2ff5 from `// Interior retail routing` to (excl.) `uint256 tradeRatio =` inserted before its `uint256 tradeRatio =`; sha256 51f1c1a9...; 526.1156 on 0..999 (check). SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone github.com/benedictbrady/amm-challenge @6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 in your workspace; save as scratch/setup.sh; `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the checkout root; then `. scratch/env.sh && ...`: set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol On failure: blocked={step,error}. MEASURE: seed s: g=default_rng(s); size=g.uniform(19,21); rate=g.uniform(.6,1); sigma=g.uniform(.000882,.001008); build_config(seed=s,gbm_sigma=sigma,retail_arrival_rate=rate,retail_mean_size=size). vanilla=get_vanilla_bytecode_and_abi()[0]. run_batch(cand,vanilla,cfgs,8) and run_batch(np2,vanilla,cfgs,8) SEPARATELY (<=20 seeds a call), NEVER run_batch(cand,np2); d = cand - NP2 edges["submission"]; mean_diff, se=std(d,ddof=1)/sqrt(n), worst=5 lowest d+seeds. WAD int(round(v*1e18)); amm-match validate. {{task}} {{ret}}
the whole memo
EPISODE 8 (goal: lift NP2 on Paradigm AMM fee challenge; need paired +5.8 for top 10, +9.6 for 1st vs NP2 526.1156 on seeds 0..999; paired = each strategy SEPARATELY vs Vanilla on the same seeds, d = edge(cand) - edge(NP2) per seed). STATE AT START (~19:30Z): handed 18 results, all valid separate-vs-Vanilla unless said. Still running: ep7-stack stack-a/b, ep7-mix mix-a/b, ep7-late later-a + unc-b, ep6-oracle ceil-a/b, ep5-mech 9 (silence/evfee/nextmix and the -b copies), ep5-err err-a, ep3-base decomp, stragglers. No refusals, no stalls. Items 64 used before this episode, +19 = 83 of 400; 2 episodes left after this (9, 10). Requester 19:11Z: promote later-b to the base; sweep the three pHat alphas on >=2,000 seeds a cell; stack with skew-off and prespot; confirm the stack on 4,000 fresh seeds, two items. RESULTS (confirm block, n 2000 unless said): WINNER ep7-late/later-b: PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL 0.06 -> 0.03 (the one semantic change; code sha256 91fe9cb4... also rewrites the 90/10 blend with explicit WAD weights, same values): +0.105 se 0.0096 on 2810000..2811999; arb +1.42, retail -1.32. Its 240-seed grid: A=0 (no later update) with blend -0.94, without blend -1.60; A=0 B=0.12 -0.086; A=0.03 B=0.09 +0.087; A=0.03 B=0.12 +0.141; blend 0.075 < 0.1; stale 6850 / attract 1.05 (NP2's) stayed best. So later retail prints must still move pHat a little; the question is how little. MARGINAL ep5-mech/prespot-a: for prints with amountY/reserveY >= 1%, recover the pre-trade reserves (undo the fee-adjusted change) and blend pHat 95/5 toward preY/preX after the routing block: +0.025 se 0.0145 (t 1.7) on 2590000..; tuning n 768 +0.024 se 0.008. Candidate for the stack only. LOST: ep7-mix hard-a -2.44 se 0.033 (T 1.75, wA 0.5, wR 0.1, g=0 required; every grid point negative), hard-b -2.62 se 0.038 (arb +2.0 but retail -4.6): a BIG first-print alpha (0.5) for arb-like prints loses even with the shift retuned; the mixture family (mix-a/b, still running) is expected to lose too. ep7-late/unc-a (Kalman-style variance through silence) -4.44 se 0.046. ep5-mech kalman-a -3.22 se 0.038; arbfirst-a -0.14 se 0.017 (best grid point barely below NP2). ep6-mech shrink-a/b: every K>0 loses -23 and worse; frozen at K=0 = NP2 (0.0). sitshift-a -0.003 se 0.009, sitshift-b -0.017 se 0.007 (class-specific TRADE_TOX_BOOST 4375/2625 did not transfer; stale/attract by class stayed at NP2). ep6-oracle ev-a -5.13 se 0.06, ev-b -5.26 se 0.065 (affine gap fees with the TRUE price lose 4.8 of retail: the affine form is not a ceiling; NP2's flow/tox/size terms are worth more than exact p). ep5-oracle oracle-price-c (true price as pHat, no retune) -5.40, oracle-full-c -33.6 (confirm ep3-oracle). Old: ep1-mech/merge-01 (4 big losses, head-to-head era), ep4-flow flat-b -0.075 se 0.03 vanilla diagnostic (its +24.6 was head-to-head), both-a -1.87 se 0.048. LESSON: every rewrite of the estimator (Kalman, mixture, hard cutoff, variance growth, noise shrink, class shifts) loses by 0.1 to 5; the only gains are small changes to NP2's own gains (later-b +0.105, prespot +0.025, skew-off +0.06 on 200 seeds). The +5.8 target is out of reach of this family; the write-up must say so and ship the best confirmed stack. DECIDED (19 items, 4 batches, no cancel): - ep8-sweep-f22 / -f27 / -f32 (5 items each, keys r0 r01 r02 r03 r04): one item = NP2 with PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL in {0,.01,.02,.03,.04} (item), PHAT_ALPHA (first print) in {0.22, 0.27, 0.32} (batch) and three PHAT_ALPHA_SAME cells {0.09, 0.12, 0.16}, each measured vs NP2 on the COMMON seeds 10000..11999 (n 2000) with no confirm block; 45 cells in all, comparable across items (every item also reports np2_mean_10000_11999, which must agree across machines). Cell (0.03, 0.27, 0.12) is later-b itself. - ep8-stack (4): stack-a/b = V1 BASE (NP2 + RETAIL 0.03), V2 BASE+SKEW-OFF (DIR_COEF = DIR_TOX_COEF = 0), V3 BASE+PRESPOT (prespot-a's edit), V4 all three, on 10000..11999, best confirmed on 2860000 / 2870000; blend-a/b = the interior-routing blend weight {0.15, 0.20, 0.30} and gate 20 bps on BASE, best confirmed on 2880000 / 2890000. TEMPLATE (word for word in artifacts/goal/episodes/008/decisions.json): NP2 def; SETUP with the requester's 1159-char no-gate script ("this script, not the objective's"); MEASURE (default_rng draws, build_config, Vanilla, run_batch SEPARATELY <=20 seeds a call, NEVER run_batch(cand,np2), constants as WAD int(round(v*1e18)), amm-match validate); TASK; RETURN json. The template without TASK/RETURN is ~2300 chars; filled briefs are <= 3000. ep8-stack carries TASK and RETURN as item vars. CONFIRM SEED BLOCKS (never reuse): ep1-mech 2000000..2229999; harness ep1 2900000..2909999; ep2-oracle 2230000..2249999; ep3-base 2250000..2253999 and 2260000..2263999; ep3-oracle 2270000..2289999; ep3-mech 2300000..2459999; ep4-flow 2460000..2499999; ep4-lean 2500000..2539999; ep5-oracle 2540000..2551999; ep5-mech 2560000..2679999 (10000 per item); ep6-oracle 2680000..2719999; ep6-mech 2720000..2759999; ep7-mix 2760000..2799999; ep7-late 2800000..2839999; ep7-stack 2840000..2859999; ep8-stack stack-a 2860000, stack-b 2870000, blend-a 2880000, blend-b 2890000 (each ..+1999). NEXT FREE BLOCK: 2910000 (skip 2900000..2909999; allocate 10000 per item). Tuning seeds 10000..99999; ep8 uses 10000..11999 as the common block. READS REQUESTED for ep9 (30): the 15 sweep items; ep8-stack x4; ep7-stack/stack-a, stack-b; ep7-mix/mix-a, mix-b; ep7-late/later-a, unc-b; ep6-oracle/ceil-a, ceil-b; ep5-mech/merge-01, merge-02; ep5-err/err-a. EP9 PLAN: (a) Check methods and `blocked` first. (b) Sweep: tabulate the 45 cells (same seeds, so differences between cells are nearly noise-free relative to NP2's se); pick the cell with the highest mean_diff; if a neighbour is within 1 se prefer the one nearest (0.03, 0.27, 0.12). Confirm the np2_mean_10000_11999 agrees across items (else a machine's harness is off: drop it). (c) Stack: take the variant both stack items confirm with mean_diff >= 2 se; drop prespot or skew-off if their ablation adds < 2 se. Take the blend change only if both blend items confirm it. (d) Spawn ep9-final (2 items, two machines, blocks 2910000..2913999 and 2920000..2923999): FINAL = NP2 + best sweep constants + the accepted stack parts; measure vs NP2 on 4,000 fresh seeds each; return code, sha256, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst}, split if the item can instrument the engine. Optionally 2 more items re-tuning STALE_DIR_COEF {6000..7500} x STALE_ATTRACT_FRAC {0.95..1.15} on FINAL (later-b found NP2's values best after RETAIL 0.03, so low priority). Also read any late ep7 results (mix, later-a, unc-b, ep7-stack) for a surprise winner to fold in. (e) EP10: read ep9-final; set finish true; the write-up gives FINAL's code, sha256, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst} vs NP2 on 4,000 fresh seeds (expected about +0.1 to +0.25, far below +5.8), the lesson above, and the ceiling figures (true price alone -5.4; ev affine fees -5.1; gap+g fees -33.6) as what is missing. The requester submits any file >= +1.0 over NP2 on 4,000 fresh seeds; FINAL is below that, so the write-up must say the board rank will not move and recommend the file only as a safe +0.1. CH = ChengHua926/amm-challenge Strategy.sol @d34a5199 (525.525882178 reproduced by many workers); NP2 sha256 51f1c1a9d4999ee460eb8bbc66880da8074b173399a4f5d71f96671482e18ac0; later-b sha256 91fe9cb4553c4781f1c6e1ac3d5a036e5c0ebe09bd4ed67a2f4c059647e54fcc; prespot-a sha256 3ce21d811b5440456116b7d848e36c7938863ababf10dd028d710ed35c633e3d.
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ep8-sweep-f22, item by item ep8-sweep-f27, item by item ep8-sweep-f32, item by item ep8-stack, item by item
Round 9ep9-stack4 of 4 backep9-loo4 of 4 backep9-pair4 of 4 backep9-single2 of 2 backep9-tune2 of 2 back
Agent #2 planned it.
what ep9-stack was asked
NP2 as the objective defines it (TWO + NP's routing block; sha256 51f1c1a9...; 526.1156 on seeds 0..999). B = the ```solidity block of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/5839483d4df69854030fd68b224659b379af881cd229df40a8bab825c2fa7db1 (stack-b, sha256 21842600...); read its Method section. SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone the objective's simulator commit into the workspace, save this as scratch/setup.sh, run `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the checkout root, then `. scratch/env.sh && ` before commands; blocked={step,error} on failure: set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol MEASURE exactly as B's Method section: run_batch(X, vanilla, cfgs, 8) SEPARATELY for X in {cand, NP2, B}, 20 seeds a call, NEVER run_batch(cand, np2); se=sd/sqrt(n). `amm-match validate` must pass. L = slow-path PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL 0.03: only the line `uint256 alpha = firstInStep ? PHAT_ALPHA : PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL;` gets 30000000000000000; the fast estimator keeps 0.06. N = next-mix-a's mix: copy MIX_M, MIX_E_SIXTEENTHS, the `// Mix the next retail quote` block (after the tail compression, slow pHat) and its 3 helpers from the only `code` in https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/8632a51305fc2b7fbd61b754534bfe89f487a6dfd2fec3eea9801e621c77f4e9. S = silence-a (re-implement; note how you read it): keep our post-trade spot s in a free slot; at a step's first print after g=min(elapsed-1,4)>=1 silent steps, before the slow update, pHat += w(c-pHat), c=(s(1-prevBid)+s/(1-prevAsk))/2, w=1-(1-0.075)^g; multiply that print's slow alpha and gate by 1-0.30w. TASK: {{task}} No tuning. Measure cand, NP2 and B once on seeds {{block}}..{{block}}+3999 (+1999 if over 0.2 s/sim; say so). RETURN json: config, code (full Strategy.sol), sha256, b_sha256 as built, paired_np2{n,mean_diff,se,worst 5}, paired_b{n,mean_diff,se}, seconds_per_sim, blocked, notes.
what ep9-loo was asked
NP2 as the objective defines it (TWO + NP's routing block; sha256 51f1c1a9...; 526.1156 on seeds 0..999). B = the ```solidity block of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/5839483d4df69854030fd68b224659b379af881cd229df40a8bab825c2fa7db1 (stack-b, sha256 21842600...); read its Method section. SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone the objective's simulator commit into the workspace, save this as scratch/setup.sh, run `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the checkout root, then `. scratch/env.sh && ` before commands; blocked={step,error} on failure: set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol MEASURE exactly as B's Method section: run_batch(X, vanilla, cfgs, 8) SEPARATELY for X in {cand, NP2, B}, 20 seeds a call, NEVER run_batch(cand, np2); se=sd/sqrt(n). `amm-match validate` must pass. L = slow-path PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL 0.03: only the line `uint256 alpha = firstInStep ? PHAT_ALPHA : PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL;` gets 30000000000000000; the fast estimator keeps 0.06. N = next-mix-a's mix: copy MIX_M, MIX_E_SIXTEENTHS, the `// Mix the next retail quote` block (after the tail compression, slow pHat) and its 3 helpers from the only `code` in https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/8632a51305fc2b7fbd61b754534bfe89f487a6dfd2fec3eea9801e621c77f4e9. S = silence-a (re-implement; note how you read it): keep our post-trade spot s in a free slot; at a step's first print after g=min(elapsed-1,4)>=1 silent steps, before the slow update, pHat += w(c-pHat), c=(s(1-prevBid)+s/(1-prevAsk))/2, w=1-(1-0.075)^g; multiply that print's slow alpha and gate by 1-0.30w. TASK: {{task}} No tuning. Measure cand, NP2 and B once on seeds {{block}}..{{block}}+3999 (+1999 if over 0.2 s/sim; say so). RETURN json: config, code (full Strategy.sol), sha256, b_sha256 as built, paired_np2{n,mean_diff,se,worst 5}, paired_b{n,mean_diff,se}, seconds_per_sim, blocked, notes.
what ep9-pair was asked
NP2 as the objective defines it (TWO + NP's routing block; sha256 51f1c1a9...; 526.1156 on seeds 0..999). B = the ```solidity block of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/5839483d4df69854030fd68b224659b379af881cd229df40a8bab825c2fa7db1 (stack-b, sha256 21842600...); read its Method section. SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone the objective's simulator commit into the workspace, save this as scratch/setup.sh, run `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the checkout root, then `. scratch/env.sh && ` before commands; blocked={step,error} on failure: set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol MEASURE exactly as B's Method section: run_batch(X, vanilla, cfgs, 8) SEPARATELY for X in {cand, NP2, B}, 20 seeds a call, NEVER run_batch(cand, np2); se=sd/sqrt(n). `amm-match validate` must pass. L = slow-path PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL 0.03: only the line `uint256 alpha = firstInStep ? PHAT_ALPHA : PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL;` gets 30000000000000000; the fast estimator keeps 0.06. N = next-mix-a's mix: copy MIX_M, MIX_E_SIXTEENTHS, the `// Mix the next retail quote` block (after the tail compression, slow pHat) and its 3 helpers from the only `code` in https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/8632a51305fc2b7fbd61b754534bfe89f487a6dfd2fec3eea9801e621c77f4e9. TASK: {{task}} No tuning. Measure cand, NP2 and B once on seeds {{block}}..{{block}}+3999 (+1999 if over 0.2 s/sim; say so). RETURN json: config, code (full Strategy.sol), sha256, b_sha256 as built, paired_np2{n,mean_diff,se,worst 5}, paired_b{n,mean_diff,se}, seconds_per_sim, blocked, notes.
what ep9-single was asked
NP2 as the objective defines it (TWO + NP's routing block; sha256 51f1c1a9...; 526.1156 on seeds 0..999). B = the ```solidity block of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/5839483d4df69854030fd68b224659b379af881cd229df40a8bab825c2fa7db1 (stack-b, sha256 21842600...); read its Method section. SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone the objective's simulator commit into the workspace, save this as scratch/setup.sh, run `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the checkout root, then `. scratch/env.sh && ` before commands; blocked={step,error} on failure: set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol MEASURE exactly as B's Method section: run_batch(X, vanilla, cfgs, 8) SEPARATELY for X in {cand, NP2, B}, 20 seeds a call, NEVER run_batch(cand, np2); se=sd/sqrt(n). `amm-match validate` must pass. S = silence-a (re-implement; note how you read it): keep our post-trade spot s in a free slot; at a step's first print after g=min(elapsed-1,4)>=1 silent steps, before the slow update, pHat += w(c-pHat), c=(s(1-prevBid)+s/(1-prevAsk))/2, w=1-(1-0.075)^g; multiply that print's slow alpha and gate by 1-0.30w. TASK: {{task}} No tuning. Measure cand, NP2 and B once on seeds {{block}}..{{block}}+3999 (+1999 if over 0.2 s/sim; say so). RETURN json: config, code (full Strategy.sol), sha256, b_sha256 as built, paired_np2{n,mean_diff,se,worst 5}, paired_b{n,mean_diff,se}, seconds_per_sim, blocked, notes.
what ep9-tune was asked
NP2 as the objective defines it (TWO + NP's routing block; sha256 51f1c1a9...; 526.1156 on seeds 0..999). B = the ```solidity block of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/5839483d4df69854030fd68b224659b379af881cd229df40a8bab825c2fa7db1 (stack-b, sha256 21842600...); read its Method section. SETUP (this script, not the objective's): clone the objective's simulator commit into the workspace, save this as scratch/setup.sh, run `sh scratch/setup.sh` once at the checkout root, then `. scratch/env.sh && ` before commands; blocked={step,error} on failure: set -eu;R=$PWD/scratch;mkdir -p $R/tmp $R/bin $R/solcx echo "export TMPDIR=$R/tmp XDG_CACHE_HOME=$R/xc UV_CACHE_DIR=$R/uvc UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR=$R/uvpy RUSTUP_HOME=$R/rustup CARGO_HOME=$R/cargo SOLCX_BINARY_PATH=$R/solcx VIRTUAL_ENV=$PWD/.venv PATH=$PWD/.venv/bin:$R/bin:$R/cargo/bin:\$PATH" >$R/env.sh;. $R/env.sh command -v uv >/dev/null||{ curl -LsSf https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz|tar --no-same-owner -xz -C $R/tmp;cp $R/tmp/uv-*/uv $R/bin/;} cc --version >/dev/null 2>&1||{ curl -Ls https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/linux-64/latest -o $R/tmp/mm.tbz;python3 -c "import sys,tarfile;tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extract('bin/micromamba',sys.argv[2])" $R/tmp/mm.tbz $R;MAMBA_ROOT_PREFIX=$R/mamba $R/bin/micromamba create -yq -p $R/cenv -c conda-forge gcc;ln -sf $(ls $R/cenv/bin/*gcc|head -n1) $R/bin/cc;} command -v cargo >/dev/null||{ curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs|sh -s -- -y --profile minimal --no-modify-path;} uv venv --python 3.12 .venv;uv pip install -e . maturin maturin develop --release --uv --manifest-path amm_sim_rs/Cargo.toml amm-match validate contracts/src/StarterStrategy.sol MEASURE exactly as B's Method section: run_batch(X, vanilla, cfgs, 8) SEPARATELY for X in {cand, NP2, B}, 20 seeds a call, NEVER run_batch(cand, np2); se=sd/sqrt(n). `amm-match validate` must pass. TASK: {{task}} Tune vs B on seeds 10000..11023 (B's edges computed once); then measure the best cell (B itself if none beats B by 2 se), NP2 and B once on fresh seeds {{block}}..{{block}}+1999. RETURN json: cells[{params,n,mean_diff_vs_b,se}], best, code (full Strategy.sol of the best), sha256, b_sha256 as built, paired_np2{n,mean_diff,se,worst 5}, paired_b{n,mean_diff,se}, seconds_per_sim, blocked, notes.
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EPISODE 9 (goal: lift NP2 on Paradigm AMM fee challenge; need paired +5.8 for top 10, +9.6 for 1st vs NP2 526.1156 on seeds 0..999; paired = each strategy SEPARATELY vs Vanilla on the same seeds, d = edge(cand) - edge(NP2) per seed). Episode 10 is the LAST: it reads, sets finish true and writes the deliverable; it cannot spawn readable work. STATE AT START (~19:40Z): handed ep7-stack/stack-a, stack-b, ep7-mix/mix-a, mix-b, ep7-late/unc-b, ep6-oracle/ceil-b, ep3-base/decomp, ep3-mech/merge-01, ep4-lean/lean-a. ep8's four batches (15 sweep items on NP2 + 4 stack items on NP2) had NOT started. Still running: ep5-mech x6, ep6-oracle/ceil-a, ep7-late/later-a, ep5-err/err-a. No refusals, no stalls. Items 83 used before this episode; cancel 14 waiting (ep8-stack 4, ep8-sweep-f22 5, ep8-sweep-f32 5), spawn 16 => 85 of 400. RESULTS (all valid separate-vs-Vanilla, confirm n 2000): - ep7-stack/stack-b: +0.477 se 0.017 (block 2850000; arb +3.96, retail -3.49). Code sha256 218426004abed3b6cb69f4ef133fea8e4789ddbeae37bd11e94e5ffc5f2a77cb, full source in the result (fetchable at https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/5839483d4df69854030fd68b224659b379af881cd229df40a8bab825c2fa7db1). Design: NP2's slow pHat untouched for sigma/activity/tox/flow; a second fast estimate (slots 13-15: first-print mixture alpha = P*0.6+(1-P)*0.08, same-direction later updates 0.06, variance grown by sigmaHat^2*elapsed) feeds ONLY the stale shift via staleHat = 0.7*pHat + 0.3*fastHat. Tuned on 80-240 seeds. Requester 19:15Z promoted it as the base (B). - ep7-stack/stack-a (single-estimator variant): +0.100 se 0.024; not used. - ep7-mix mix-a -0.305 se 0.027, mix-b -1.25 se 0.032; ep7-late/unc-b -4.55 se 0.068. Replacing the slow estimator loses every time; only the two-estimator route works. - ep6-oracle/ceil-b (TRUE price as pHat + coordinate re-tune of the fee mapping; needs assembly, not submittable): +1.19 se 0.051 (arb +5.98, retail -4.79; TOX_QUAD at the grid edge). Requester 19:18Z: inside NP2/CH's fee family even a perfect price is worth ~+1.2, while 1st is +9.6: the leaders use a different fee rule. Say this plainly in the write-up; 'design a new fee rule' is the first item for the next run. - ep4-lean/lean-a: zeroing the lean -0.035 se 0.003 (dead). ep3-base/decomp: 98.1% of arb loss is at gap=1; displacement >200 bps carries 35.6% of arb loss from 4.7% of arb prints. - Known confirmed gains on NP2 (requester 19:22Z, 19:38Z): stack-b +0.477 se 0.017; silence-a +0.219 se 0.011 (seat 534: after g silent steps, cap 4, move slow pHat toward the centre of the previous fee band by w=1-(1-0.075)^g and scale that print's alpha and gate by 1-0.30w; its result file hash is only known as 026979bc..., so ep9 briefs re-implement it from this description); next-mix-a +0.170 se 0.007 on 4,000 seeds (code in ep3-mech/merge-01, https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/8632a51305fc2b7fbd61b754534bfe89f487a6dfd2fec3eea9801e621c77f4e9: blend the exposed side with a break-even fee weighted by the Poisson chance the next trade is retail, MIX_M 0.625, MIX_E 1/8); later-b +0.105 se 0.010 (slow PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL 0.03). About +0.97 if additive; silence-a may overlap stack-b's silence variance. Losers never to retry: router -26.7, unc -4.5, kalman -3.2, mixture/hard cutoff on the slow path, shrink, sitshift, flow flattening, lean, cap, affine oracle fees (-5.1), gap+g fees (-33.5). DECIDED (16 items, 5 batches, every brief = NP2 by the objective's definition + B def with URL + SETUP with the requester's 1159-char no-gate script word for word + MEASURE (separate run_batch vs Vanilla for cand, NP2 and B, 20 seeds a call) + delta defs L/N/S + TASK var + RETURN json; filled briefs 2,7xx-2,9xx chars, checked mechanically): - ep9-stack: full-a/b = B+S+N+L; nos-a/b = B+N+L. ep9-loo: non-a/b = B+S+L; nol-a/b = B+S+N. ep9-pair: onlyl-a/b = B+L; onlyn-a/b = B+N. ep9-single: onlys-a/b = B+S. Each: no tuning, one measurement of cand, NP2 and B on its own fresh 4,000-seed block (2,000 if the machine is slower than 0.2 s/sim), returning paired_np2 and paired_b. - ep9-tune: tune-a = B's stale blend fast weight {0.1,0.2,0.4,0.5} (B 0.3); tune-b = first-print wA/wR cross (0.5,.08),(0.7,.08),(0.6,.04),(0.6,.12) around B's (0.6,0.08); each cell vs B on seeds 10000..11023; best cell (or B) confirmed vs NP2 and B on a fresh 2,000-seed block. - L in B is the SLOW path only (the fast estimator reuses the PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL constant for its later update, so briefs change the slow line to 30000000000000000 and keep the fast 0.06). N uses the slow pHat for spot>=pHat as in next-mix-a. S moves the slow pHat only. - Cancelled ep8-stack and ep8-sweep-f22/f32 (NP2-based, superseded by B and unreadable in time); kept ep8-sweep-f27 (RETAIL {0,.01,.02,.03,.04} x SAME {.09,.12,.16} at first-print 0.27 on NP2, common seeds 10000..11999) because it says whether 0.03 is the right slow cell for the write-up. CONFIRM SEED BLOCKS (never reuse): ep1-mech 2000000..2229999; harness ep1 2900000..2909999; ep2-oracle 2230000..2249999; ep3-base 2250000..2263999; ep3-oracle 2270000..2289999; ep3-mech 2300000..2459999; ep4-flow 2460000..2499999; ep4-lean 2500000..2539999; ep5-oracle 2540000..2551999; ep5-mech 2560000..2679999; ep6-oracle 2680000..2719999; ep6-mech 2720000..2759999; ep7-mix 2760000..2799999; ep7-late 2800000..2839999; ep7-stack 2840000..2859999; ep8-stack 2860000..2899999 (cancelled); ep9 (each ..+9999, items use ..+3999 or ..+1999): full-a 2910000, full-b 2920000, nos-a 2930000, nos-b 2940000, non-a 2950000, non-b 2960000, nol-a 2970000, nol-b 2980000, onlyl-a 2990000, onlyl-b 3000000, onlyn-a 3010000, onlyn-b 3020000, onlys-a 3030000, onlys-b 3040000, tune-a 3050000, tune-b 3060000. NEXT FREE BLOCK: 3070000. Tuning seeds 10000..99999 (ep8 sweep uses 10000..11999, ep9-tune 10000..11023). READS REQUESTED for ep10 (30): all 16 ep9 items; ep8-sweep-f27 r0, r01..r04; ep7-stack/stack-b; ep3-mech/next-mix-a; ep5-mech/silence-a; ep7-late/later-b; ep6-oracle/ceil-b; ep5-err/err-b; ep3-oracle/oracle-price; ep3-mech/merge-01; ep2-board/top20-regimes. EP10 PLAN (last episode; set finish true whatever has landed): (a) Check method and `blocked` on every ep9 item; an item is valid only with separate run_batch vs Vanilla and a b_sha256 equal to 21842600... (b) Rank configurations by paired_np2 mean_diff; the increments paired_b show which deltas add on B (S may overlap B's silence variance; L touches a constant B's fast path also reads). Take as FINAL the configuration with the highest paired_np2 whose two copies agree within 2 combined se; if copies disagree, prefer the one measured on 4,000 seeds and say so. Expected: FULL about +0.8 to +1.0 if additive, B alone +0.48; the requester submits any file >= +0.8 over NP2 on 4,000 fresh seeds and checks it on the board (+0.8 local = about 519.6 on the board, still ~35th; top 10 needs +5.8). (c) Fold in ep9-tune only if its best cell beats B by >= 2 se on the fresh block and is confirmed vs NP2; otherwise keep B's 0.3 / 0.6 / 0.08. (d) Write-up: FINAL's full code (copy from the winning item's `code`), sha256, paired{n,mean_diff,se,worst} vs NP2 and vs stack-b, the per-delta increments, the lesson (every estimator rewrite on the slow path lost by 0.1 to 5; the gains are small changes to NP2's own gains and a second fast estimate used only for the stale shift), and the ceiling figures as what is missing: true price alone -5.4 (ep3-oracle), true price + re-tuned mapping +1.19 se 0.05 (ceil-b), affine gap fees -5.1, gap+g fees -33.5; the board gap (+9.6 to 1st, every run, scaling with retail flow; #10 -> #1 is an arb rung) cannot be closed inside this fee family, so the next run's first item is a new fee rule designed from the top-20 per-run board data (ep2-board). Cite results by batch/item. CH = ChengHua926/amm-challenge Strategy.sol @d34a5199 (525.525882178); NP2 sha256 51f1c1a9d4999ee460eb8bbc66880da8074b173399a4f5d71f96671482e18ac0; later-b 91fe9cb4...; next-mix-a 1e8a7601...; stack-b 21842600...; stack-a f54f9db7...
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Round 10EPISODE 10 (last of 10; goal: lift NP2 on Paradigm AMM fee challenge; top 10 needs paired +5.8, 1st +9.6 vs NP2 526.1156 on seeds 0..999; paired = each strategy…
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EPISODE 10 (last of 10; goal: lift NP2 on Paradigm AMM fee challenge; top 10 needs paired +5.8, 1st +9.6 vs NP2 526.1156 on seeds 0..999; paired = each strategy SEPARATELY vs Vanilla on the same seeds, d = edge(cand) - edge(NP2) per seed). DECISION: finish = true. No batch spawned (nothing spawned now can be read by an episode); the write-up is next. STATE: all 16 ep9 items settled and handed, plus ep8-sweep-f27 r0..r04 and the write-up reads. No refusals, no stalls. Items used 99 of 400 (16 cancelled held items freed). EP9 RESULTS (every valid item: separate run_batch vs Vanilla for cand, NP2 and B, 20 seeds a call; b_sha256 = 21842600...; NP2 sha256 51f1c1a9... rebuilt and 526.1155722 on 0..999; CH 525.5258821780834 reproduced by r0, r01, r03, tune-a, nos-a, onlyn-a, onlys-a, onlyl-a, non-a): - B alone (stack-b) vs NP2 on fresh blocks: +0.496 se 0.017 (ep9-tune/tune-a, 3050000..3051999), +0.457 se 0.019 (tune-b, 3060000..), +0.489 se 0.031 (full-b's block, n 660), +0.441 se 0.028 (non-b, n 4000), +0.477 se 0.017 (ep7-stack/stack-b). Pooled about +0.47. - B+S (onlys-a, block 3030000..3031999, n 2000): +0.736 se 0.0175 vs NP2; +0.281 se 0.016 vs B; worst seed -4.63. Code sha256 a9830b417dd43806c144e8b4a217cda1317850bb52578b18a3237307cf8dfa16, full source in the result (ep9-single/onlys-a). onlys-b was blocked at setup (host guard refused the toolchain install; no measurement), so B+S has ONE valid copy. - B+S+L (non-a 2950000..2953999 n 4000: +0.643 se 0.014 vs NP2, +0.152 se 0.011 vs B; non-b 2960000..2963999 n 4000: +0.633 se 0.015 vs NP2, +0.192 se 0.027 vs B). Two copies agree within 1 combined se. sha256 9e2f512a... (non-a), 508ae3f2... (non-b). - B+L (onlyl-a/b, n 4000 each, identical code sha256 d052c0a7...): +0.349 se 0.014 and +0.338 se 0.014 vs NP2, but -0.131 se 0.014 and -0.143 se 0.007 vs B. L (slow PHAT_ALPHA_RETAIL 0.03), +0.105 on NP2, LOSES about 0.14 on B: B's stale shift already uses a fast estimate, and slowing the slow path's later-print update now hurts. Drop L from any B-based file. - Every configuration with N (next-mix-a's mix block) on B is INVALID, not a loss of the mechanism: B alone peaks at 242,638 gas of the 250,000 afterSwap limit (NP2 196,097) and N's Poisson series, square roots and atanh push it over; the engine keeps the old fees and reverts the hook's writes on out-of-gas, so the state freezes (ep9-loo/nol-b counted 6,377,412 out-of-gas calls over 2,000 sims; cand 431.5 vs NP2 523.9). full-a -466 (OOG confirmed by the worker), nos-a -85.9, nos-b -48.7 (n 100), onlyn-a -87.8, onlyn-b -84.6, nol-b -92.4 all measure the failure. full-b (+0.311 se 0.108 vs NP2 but -0.178 se 0.105 vs B, n 660, slow machine) also found one seed collapsing to 309 vs 376 when S and N are together. N can only be added to B after a gas diet of B or N; untested. - ep9-tune: no cell beats B. Stale blend fast weight {0.1,0.2,0.4,0.5} vs B's 0.3 on seeds 10000..11023: -0.20, -0.04, -0.07, -0.27 (tune-a). First-print (wA,wR) around (0.6,0.08): (0.5,.08) -0.048, (0.7,.08) -0.003, (0.6,.04) -0.081, (0.6,.12) +0.020 se 0.012 (1.6 se, unconfirmed) (tune-b). Keep B's 0.3 / 0.6 / 0.08; a small gain may exist at wR 0.12..0.16. - ep8-sweep-f27 (NP2, common seeds 10000..11999, first-print alpha 0.27): RETAIL 0 -0.116/-0.120 (SAME .09/.12), 0.01 -0.007/-0.011, 0.02 +0.059/+0.061, 0.03 +0.097/+0.103 (SAME .09/.12), SAME 0.16 always worse (-0.05 to -0.16); r04 (0.04) blocked (no network). So 0.03/0.12 is the right NP2 cell (later-b confirmed +0.105 fresh), but it does not carry over to B (above). FINAL FOR THE WRITE-UP: B+S from ep9-single/onlys-a: +0.736 se 0.0175 vs NP2 on 2,000 fresh seeds (one copy). Its parts are each confirmed on their own: B +0.47 (five fresh blocks) and S +0.28 on B (onlys-a) / +0.15..+0.19 on B+L (non-a/b, n 4000 each). Runner-up, confirmed twice on 4,000 seeds: B+S+L +0.64. Say plainly that FINAL's second copy did not run (onlys-b blocked), that the requester asked for >= +0.8 on 4,000 fresh seeds before submitting and FINAL is +0.74 on 2,000, and recommend the requester (or the next run) re-measure onlys-a's code on a fresh 4,000-seed block from 3070000 before submitting; blocks 3070000 up are unused. On the board +0.74 is about 519.6, roughly 35th: the rank barely moves. WHAT THE RUN LEARNED (for the write-up, cite by batch/item): 1. Measurement: paired means each strategy separately vs the compiled 30 bps Vanilla on the same seed configs (requester 17:45Z); ep3/ep4 head-to-head numbers (both-b +35, flat-a +13) were invalid. se on 2,000 seeds is 0.01-0.03 for small edits. 2. Gains, all small changes to NP2's own gains or a second estimator: stack-b +0.477 se 0.017 (ep7-stack/stack-b: slow pHat untouched; a fast estimate, first-print arb/retail mixture alpha P*0.6+(1-P)*0.08, same-direction later updates, silence variance, feeds ONLY the stale shift as staleHat = 0.7 pHat + 0.3 fastHat); silence-a +0.219 se 0.011 on NP2 (ep5-mech/silence-a: after g silent steps, cap 4, pull slow pHat toward the previous fee band's centre by w = 1-0.925^g and scale that print's alpha and gate by 1-0.30w) and +0.28 on B; next-mix-a +0.170 se 0.007 on NP2 (ep3-mech/next-mix-a, 4,000 seeds; cannot be stacked on B for gas); later-b +0.105 se 0.010 on NP2 (ep7-late/later-b) but -0.14 on B; prespot-a +0.025 (t 1.7); skew-off +0.06 on 200 seeds (unconfirmed). 3. Losers (never retry): every rewrite of the slow estimator: kalman -3.2, unc -4.4/-4.5, mixture mix-a -0.31 mix-b -1.25, hard cutoff -2.4/-2.6, shrink -23, sitshift 0/-0.02, arbfirst -0.14; fee-shape edits from the board study: flow flattening -0.09 to -6.5, lean zeroing -0.035/-0.041, bid-ask cap -47; router undercutting -26.7; oracle fee forms with the TRUE price: affine gap fees -5.1/-5.3 (ep6-oracle/ev-a/b), gap+g fees -33.5 (ep3-oracle/oracle-full). 4. Ceiling: true price as pHat with NP2's mapping -5.39 se 0.057 (ep3-oracle/oracle-price; arb +15.6, retail -21.0); true price + coordinate re-tune of the mapping +1.19 se 0.05 (ep6-oracle/ceil-b; arb +5.98, retail -4.79). Inside the NP2/CH fee family even a perfect price is worth about +1.2, while 10th is +5.8 and 1st +9.6: the leaders use a different fee rule (requester 19:18Z). B+S at +0.74 is about 60% of that ceiling. 5. Diagnostics: err-b (ep5-err): arb prints are always first in step and reveal the true price exactly, yet alpha 0.27 leaves 23 bps RMS; retail prints are 67-75 bps noise; first prints 54.7% arb; steps with >30 bps error are 19% of steps and 63% of arb loss. decomp (ep3-base): 98% of arb loss at gap 1; displacement >200 bps is 4.7% of arb prints and 35.6% of arb loss. Board (ep2-board/top20-regimes, requester 16:46Z/16:50Z): #1 beats NP2 on every run, +9.57 se 0.06, scaling with retail flow (8.1/9.5/11.1 by third); NP2 -> #10 is a retail rung (+1,430 retail Y), #10 -> #1 an arb rung (-824 arb Y at +0.12 bps mean fee); NP2's fee slope 1.76 bps per 10k retail Y vs #1 1.10 and its +1.02 bps bid-over-ask lean are symptoms, not dials. WHAT IS MISSING / NEXT RUN: (1) design a new fee rule, not a better estimator, using the top-20 per-run board data (ep2-board) as the target; (2) a gas budget: B is 7k gas under the limit, so any addition needs a cheaper B (drop dead code such as the dirState skew) or a cheaper N; (3) a second 4,000-seed copy of B+S; (4) wR 0.12..0.16 on B's first print (+0.02 at 1.6 se). Hashes: NP2 51f1c1a9d4999ee460eb8bbc66880da8074b173399a4f5d71f96671482e18ac0; stack-b 218426004abed3b6cb69f4ef133fea8e4789ddbeae37bd11e94e5ffc5f2a77cb (source at api.imd.fun/artifacts/5839483d4df69854030fd68b224659b379af881cd229df40a8bab825c2fa7db1); B+S a9830b417dd43806c144e8b4a217cda1317850bb52578b18a3237307cf8dfa16; B+S+L 9e2f512a93955eff9c32d8434bb94d5238e312995e257d1fca8c90f31cdc5788; later-b 91fe9cb4...; CH = ChengHua926/amm-challenge Strategy.sol @d34a5199 (525.525882178). Seed blocks used: 2000000..3061999 (10000 per item); free from 3070000.
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Write-upAgent #2made 1 file
The deliverable is complete and verified.

Written: artifacts/goal/writeup/report.md (42,255 bytes, under the 120,000 limit, untracked as required; the daemon uploads it). Nothing else in the workspace was changed. Scratch work sits in test/scratch/, which is discarded.

What the report says

Best Strategy.sol is B+S from ep9-single/onlys-a: stack-b's two-estimator design plus the silence correction. The full source is embedded byte for byte, and I re-hashed the fenced block to confirm it matches the item's SHA-256 a9830b41…dfa16. Paired gain over NP2 on fresh seeds 3030000..3031999: n 2000, mean +0.7355, se 0.0175, worst seed −4.63. Only one copy ran, since onlys-b was blocked at setup. The runner-up B+S+L is confirmed twice on 4,000 seeds each at +0.64 and +0.63.

Neither file meets the requester's bar of +0.8 on 4,000 fresh seeds, and the report says so plainly, recommending a re-measurement of the exact B+S file on the unused block from 3070000 before any submission. Board effect of +0.74 is roughly 518.8 to 519.6, still outside the top 20.

Why the targets were out of reach: the oracle items show that even the true fair price plus a re-tuned mapping is worth only +1.19 inside NP2's fee family, against +5.8 needed for 10th. The leaders use a different fee rule.

Board analysis: #1 beats NP2 on every run, the gap scales with retail flow, and the ladder has a retail rung (NP2 to #10) and an arb rung (#10 to #1) at the same mean fee. NP2's steeper flow slope and +1 bps bid-over-ask lean are symptoms, since every direct edit of them lost.

A 31-row ranked table covers every promotion with item, n, gain, se and status, including the gas-invalid stacks (B peaks at 242,638 of 250,000 gas, so N on B ran out of gas rather than losing).

Next run: design a new fee rule from the board rungs first, then a gas diet for B so next-mix can be stacked, a second 4,000-seed copy of B+S, and the small wR 0.12..0.16 lead. A do-not-retry list closes it.

One gap worth flagging to the judge: the goal has no trunk (no code repository was built), so the report cites each file by item result and hash rather than a commit.
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JudgeAgent #1016found 1 medium, 1 low
The review is complete and .imd-findings.json holds two findings (one medium, one low). No high finding: the deliverable is usable as written.

What reproduced exactly (pinned simulator rebuilt from the task's setup script, every number recomputed):

The section 1 code block hashes to the stated SHA-256 at 14,240 bytes. B's hash and NP2's hash both reproduce from the cited api.imd.fun artifacts, and B+S differs from B only by the described S block.

Calibration: CH 525.5258821781 and NP2 526.1155722460 on seeds 0..999.

Headline paired result on the report's own block 3030000..3031999: mean edges NP2 527.0289, B 527.4833, B+S 527.7645. Paired B+S minus NP2 is +0.73554, se 0.017509, and the worst five seeds match to the digit.

Section 2 board table: all ranks, d, se, worst d, runs lost, volumes and fee figures match the public per-run files, as do the run 476/808 tails, the 90 vs 39 counts, the tercile d values, the flow-free cut, the OLS fit and the fee-slope figures. The network's entry is on the board at 518.829 as stated.

Findings

Medium. The gas figure for the FINAL file is wrong, and B+S runs out of gas. Section 5 states B+S peaks at 236,395 gas, below B's 242,638, sourced from nol-b, which is a different contract. Instrumenting the engine shows B+S peaks at 243,705 and halts with OutOfGas on 33 afterSwap calls in 18 of the 2,000 fresh-block simulations, while B and NP2 never do. The engine keeps the old fees on those calls. The measured +0.7355 already includes this, so the score stands, but the stated gas, the "7k headroom" guidance in section 6, and the omission from section 7 are defects.

Low. Section 2 tercile fee and volume figures are 1 to 2% off the per-run data under every tercile definition I tried. The section's reading is unchanged.

Not verifiable from here: the oracle ceiling (section 3) and most of the section 4 table rest on item results and a patched simulator that were not available to me. One supporting observation: the board now shows a newer network submission at 519.68, in line with the report's predicted board effect of about 519.6.
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mediumGas figure for the FINAL file (B+S 236,395) is not a measurement of B+S; B+S actually exceeds the 250,000 afterSwap gas limit on some calls
Section 5 (Gas) states: 'NP2 peaks at 196,097, B at 242,638, B+S at 236,395 (max successful; nol-b's counter)', and section 6 item 2 builds on it ('B has 7k gas of headroom'; 'Then re-test B+S+N'). The B+S figure is taken from nol-b, which the report itself describes as a different contract (B+S+N) that ran out of gas on 6,377,412 calls, so its 'max successful' is a censored maximum of another file, not a measurement of B+S.

B+S also cannot use less gas than B: it is B plus a cold SLOAD/SSTORE of slot 16 on every call plus the S-branch arithmetic.

Re-running the report's own FINAL file (sha256 a9830b41...) on the report's own fresh block (3030000..3031999) in the pinned simulator with the engine instrumented to record afterSwap gas shows a peak successful afterSwap of 243,705 gas and 33 afterSwap calls that halt with OutOfGas in 18 of the 2,000 simulations (seeds 3030034, 3030302, 3030394, 3030461, 3030541, 3030612, 3030916, 3030924, 3031013, 3031182, 3031279, 3031307, 3031372, 3031712, 3031733, 3031735, 3031897, 3031988).

On the same seeds B (sha256 21842600...) peaks at 241,882 with 0 OOG and NP2 at 195,408 with 0 OOG. On OOG the engine keeps the previous fees and discards the hook's storage writes (amm/cfmm.rs update_fees: 'On error, keep current fees'), so the shipped file silently skips state updates on those calls.

The headline +0.73554 ± 0.017509 is unaffected (it reproduces exactly, including the worst-five seeds, and already includes this behaviour), but the gas statement is false, the 'headroom' guidance for the next run has the wrong sign (B+S is already over the limit on some calls, not under it), and the FINAL file carries a latent out-of-gas defect that section 7 (What is missing) does not disclose.
Clone benedictbrady/amm-challenge @ 6b6921f8d463314aa7c96234e1be25a25245f704 and build with the task's setup script.

Save the report's section 1 code block as bs.sol (14,240 bytes, sha256 a9830b417dd43806c144e8b4a217cda1317850bb52578b18a3237307cf8dfa16) and B from the solidity block of https://api.imd.fun/artifacts/5839483d4df69854030fd68b224659b379af881cd229df40a8bab825c2fa7db1 (sha256 218426004abed3b6cb69f4ef133fea8e4789ddbeae37bd11e94e5ffc5f2a77cb).

In amm_sim_rs/src/evm/strategy.rs capture gas_used from ExecutionResult::Success in call() and count EVMError::OutOfGas returned by after_swap(); print per-simulation max and OOG count at the end of SimulationEngine::run; rebuild with maturin develop --release.

Run each file alone vs the compiled VanillaStrategy with MatchRunner._build_configs draws (default_rng(seed): size U(19,21), rate U(0.6,1.0), sigma U(0.000882,0.001008); build_config(seed=seed)) on seeds 3030000..3031999, 20 per run_batch.

Expected per report: B+S peak 236,395 below B's 242,638 and no OOG.

Actual: NP2 peak 195,408 / 0 OOG; B peak 241,882 / 0 OOG (first 400 seeds); B+S peak 243,705 with 33 OutOfGas afterSwap calls in 18 of 2,000 simulations (5 calls in 3 of the first 400).

Edges are unchanged by the instrumentation (B+S mean 527.7644656221, NP2 527.0289273025, B 527.4833165813).
lowSection 2 tercile fee and volume figures do not reproduce exactly from the cited per-run files (1-2% off); conclusions unaffected
Section 2 item 5 states NP2's step-end mid fee by NP2-retail tercile as 33.71 / 35.74 / 37.79 bps and #1's as 34.12 / 35.45 / 36.68, and says #1 takes +2,695 retail Y in T3 and −1,278 arb Y in T1.

Recomputing from the public per-run files (submissions 52df1e42... for #1 and d5c8f6a9... for NP2, 1,000 runs each, mid fee = (averageBidFee+averageAskFee)/2 in bps) with terciles of NP2 retailVolumeY by quantile or by sorted thirds gives NP2 33.77 / 35.75 / 37.71, #1 34.20 / 35.44 / 36.61, T3 retail +2,718, T1 arb −1,307; terciles by #1's own retail give 33.79 / 35.74 / 37.71, 34.23 / 35.45 / 36.56, +2,764, −1,317. No tercile definition tried yields the stated values.

Every other section 2 figure checked reproduces exactly (d, se, worst d, runs lost, retail/arb Y, bid/ask bps, run 476 and 808, 90 vs 39 runs above 40 bps, maxima 52.95 / 43.33, tercile d 8.13 / 9.54 / 11.04, 1.92 / 1.85 / 1.79 %, flow-free 9.53 / 9.60 / 9.59, OLS 6.52 / 0.00187 / −0.00124 with R² 0.43, slope 1.755 vs 1.096 vs 1.013, fee sd 1.96 vs 1.61, skew correlation 0.85, correlation 0.92 vs 0.76 when #1's fee is correlated with its own-run baseline edge).

The discrepancy is small and does not change the section's reading.
GET https://www.paradigm.xyz/puzzles/api/v1/submissions/52df1e42-4219-4931-b014-586d91720298 and .../d5c8f6a9-febd-4cee-898e-3d81bc88038d; for each of the 1,000 positional matches take averageBidFee, averageAskFee, retailVolumeY, arbVolumeY.

Split by NP2 retailVolumeY into terciles; mean of NP2 mid fee per tercile.

Expected per report: 33.71 / 35.74 / 37.79 (NP2), 34.12 / 35.45 / 36.68 (#1), T3 Δretail +2,695, T1 Δarb −1,278.

Actual: 33.77 / 35.75 / 37.71, 34.20 / 35.44 / 36.61, +2,718, −1,307.
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Rank	Item	mean_diff	se	t
1	silence-a	+0.219	0.0108	20.3
2	nextmix-a	+0.128	0.0157	8.1
3	prespot-a	+0.025	0.0145	1.71
4	arbfirst-a	−0.141	0.0166	−8.5
5	evfee-a	−0.071	0.0049	−14.3
6	kalman-a	−3.222	0.0381	−84.6

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