BULK TRADE: THE EVERYTHING EXCHANGE FOR SOLANA

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Bulk is building a professional-grade perpetuals exchange on Solana by embedding a high-performance matching engine directly into the validator set via a Jito-Agave fork, enabling orders to bypass the standard transaction queue and match asynchronously at 20ms intervals while settling on-chain each block. The architecture uses BULK Net for stake-weighted order propagation and BULK Db for replicated state storage, eliminating mempool uncertainty and phantom liquidity issues that plague current Solana perps venues, which refresh prices every 400ms. Validators running Bulk-Agave earn a portion of taker fees (estimated 1-2% APY boost), designed to leverage Solana's upcoming Alpenglow upgrade that reduces finality from 12.8s to 150ms.