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zeekayandHanzo Dev 05654dbb0b Merge the two paper lineages, on provenance rather than recency
Both sides had a month of work and 89 files collided. Resolved by two rules, in
order.

FIRST, a deletion that states its reason stands. Thirteen files came back as
"deleted by us, modified by them": eight the compliance sweep removed because we
hold no licence for securities/ATS/BD/TA material, five a dropped cross-stack
audit. A merge that resurrects them republishes exactly what that sweep took
down, so they stay deleted. The one file the other side deleted goes too — it is
a .github workflow, and CI has one path now.

SECOND, for the rest, the later edit wins — EXCEPT where the other lineage
carries a correction this one never received. It never received "replace
fabricated DEX perf claims with measured numbers", so on the twenty-seven files
that commit touched its numbers win regardless of date. Recency would have
republished 9.13B orders/sec over a measured 104--126M fills/sec: the same claim
the correction was written to remove, restored because it was typed later.

Everything new on the other side arrives: AIVM, the trust-fabric and entropy
papers, the research library.

Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
2026-08-29 22:10:41 -07:00

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\section{Conclusion}
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We have developed a comprehensive economic framework for Lux appchains, addressing the
previously underspecified dimensions of appchain creation costs, validator incentives,
cross-appchain MEV, fee sharing, token bootstrapping, and elastic scaling. The framework
reveals that appchain economics exhibit strong positive network effects: each additional
appchain increases security-adjusted yields for all Primary Network validators, creating
a self-reinforcing growth cycle.
Key quantitative findings include: a 4.7$\times$ capital efficiency improvement from the
Lux Restaking Protocol (complementary to this work), break-even transaction counts ranging
from 11.9M (Tier 1) to 1.0B (Tier 5) annually at \$0.01 average fees, an estimated
\$180K/day in cross-appchain MEV available for redistribution, and ASF contributions of
approximately 1.5\% additional annualized yield for Primary Network validators at current
appchain volumes.
Future work includes: empirical validation of the LWES bootstrapping model against new
appchain launches, formal analysis of the cross-appchain MEV equilibrium, and integration
with the LRP slashing architecture for coordinated appchain security.
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