An original story on the Robinhood chain

The fastest hood alive

Every block on this chain closes in a blink. Then a monster crawled out of the dark and started eating the speed. One runner keeps the chain fast, and he never stops.

Read the story Meet the monster
Chapter 01

The fastest chain alive

On the Robinhood chain, speed is not a feature. It is the law. Blocks close in a blink, trades land before doubt shows up, and waiting was never part of the design. The people here move fast because the chain lets them. That is the whole deal.

Chapter 02

The Lagmaw

Then something crawled out of a forgotten mempool. They call it the Lagmaw. A thing of tar and dead transactions that feeds on speed itself. Where it walks, blocks drag their feet. Wallets spin. Confirmations arrive late and tired. For the first time, the fastest chain alive learned what slow feels like.

The Lagmaw, a tar monster with violet cracks, surrounded by its spawn
The Lagmaw, first sighted in an abandoned mempool. The small ones split off every block it survives.
Chapter 03

It multiplies

Here is the ugly part. Every block the Lagmaw survives, it splits. One became ten. Ten became a swarm. Small lagspawn crawling into every corner of the chain, chewing on gas, sitting on transactions like they pay rent.

Case files: the fallen

Every strain the runner has already put down, catalogued from the weakest dust to the ones that nearly stopped the chain. 11 files remain sealed.

30 case files. 3666 hunter passes. Minting on Robinhood Chain, tradable on OpenSea. 90 percent of fees fund holder airdrops. Mint TBA. Token TBA. Price TBA. Whitelist is earned in The Hunt.

Lag MiteDefeated
File 01Lag MiteMicrolag chewing on 0.1s blocks
Dust GnatDefeated
File 02Dust GnatDust spam clogging the mempool
Queue SlugDefeated
File 03Queue SlugTransactions stuck in line
Nonce RatDefeated
File 04Nonce RatGnaws nonces until txs jam
Gwei LeechDefeated
File 05Gwei LeechDrinks overpaid gas
Fee FleaDefeated
File 06Fee FleaTiny fees on every single hop
Slippage SlimeDefeated
File 07Slippage SlimeEats your output on thin pools
Dead PingDefeated
File 08Dead PingWebsocket drops mid stream
Refresh ImpDefeated
File 09Refresh ImpThe endless refresh loop
Copy CatDefeated
File 10Copy CatFake clones of real tokens
Rate WraithDefeated
File 11Rate WraithRPC gate: 429 too many requests
Batch BreakerDefeated
File 12Batch BreakerRejects batched RPC calls
Gas GoblinDefeated
File 13Gas GoblinHoards first come first served gas
Honeypot ToadDefeated
File 14Honeypot ToadTokens you can buy but never sell
Rug WormDefeated
File 15Rug WormPulls liquidity from under holders
Stale OracleDefeated
File 16Stale OraclePrice feeds frozen in time
Mempool MimicDefeated
File 17Mempool MimicCopies your trade before you land
Spoof SirenDefeated
File 18Spoof SirenFake sites fishing for wallets
Sealed
File 19Sniper HoundFile sealed. Declassification pending.
Sealed
File 20Sandwich SerpentFile sealed. Declassification pending.
Sealed
File 21Reorg RavenFile sealed. Declassification pending.
Sealed
File 22Latency GolemFile sealed. Declassification pending.
Sealed
File 23Drain FangFile sealed. Declassification pending.
Sealed
File 24Verify BasiliskFile sealed. Declassification pending.
Outage OgreDefeated
File 25Outage OgreThe July 30 blackout
Sealed
File 26Sequencer ShadeFile sealed. Declassification pending.
Sealed
File 27Bridge BreakerFile sealed. Declassification pending.
Sealed
File 28Congestion ColossusFile sealed. Declassification pending.
Sealed
File 29The HaltFile sealed. Declassification pending.
Sealed
File 30Lagmaw PrimeFile sealed. Declassification pending.
The Hunt

Defeat five. Earn the whitelist.

The pass is not for sale to spectators. Solve five field problems taken straight from this chain and your wallet earns a whitelist slot for the 3666 hunter passes.

Chapter 04

Enter Flashhood

The chain answered with a blur of red. A runner in a crimson hood, faster than finality itself. He hunts lagspawn between blocks, catches them before they split, and leaves nothing behind but a trail of light. Nobody knows his face. Everybody knows his trail.

Flashhood, a runner in a crimson hood, sprinting through the dark city with a trail of light behind him
Frame captured between two blocks. He was already gone.
Chapter 05

The chase never ends

The swarm keeps splitting. He keeps running. The chain stays fast because someone refuses to slow down.

Lagspawn purged
48,213
Blocks defended
1,204,551
Monsters left
Always one more