Q4 2022 Report

This quarterly report documents the major focuses, activities, and results of Rook Labs over the final quarter of 2022, that is, the period from October 01 to December 31, 2022. It is intended to serve as a vehicle for discussion and insight with all members of the Rook DAO and the wider blockchain industry.

Q3 2022 Report

This quarterly report documents the major focuses, activities, and results of Rook Labs over the third quarter of 2022, that is, the period from July 01 to September 30, 2022. It is intended to serve as a vehicle for discussion and insight with all members of the Rook DAO and the wider blockchain industry.

DeFiCon - MEV: Past, Present, and Future with Joey Zacherl

Joey Zacherl, CTO of Rook, discusses MEV's past, present, and future, and the power of owning your own order flow in DeFi....

Chainalysis Podcast - MEV Dark Forest with Rook

Hazard discusses the MEV Dark Forest with Ian Andrews, the CMO of Chainalysis....

Token Terminal - Rook Fundamentals with Hazard

The extended version of our 15-minute fundamentals interview with Hazard from Rook. In this interview, we break down Rook's operating model and learn about the drivers behind the data you can see on Token Terminal's charts. We discuss MEV, Keepers, business model, tokenomics, treasury, etc. Tune in...

PoolTogether Podcast with Hazard

Hazard joins Richard and Oops from the Pool Together Community Podcast to discuss his experience in crypto. Recorded on 24 Jun 2022....

Official Rook Documentation

The official Rook documentation is the best place to start for those curious about the protocol....

Rook Trade: Make Your Best Move

by Pangolin, Pai-Sho, and Rama We are proud to announce Rook Trade, a new platform for professional on-chain trading. Rook Trade lets you reach all liquidity from a single app and trade with fast on-chain limit orders that fill without gas, fees, slippage, and are protected from MEV. Every trade e...

The Rook Protocol: Changing The Game

by Hazard Ethereum has been described as an “unprecedented arena for playing cooperative games” [1]. But this arena today is powered by a certain hyper-competitive game, the game of MEV, which has corrupted the process by which our transactions become part of the blockchain. Millions of dollars ea...

Introducing Rook

by Hazard KeeperDAO is no more. We've made it official, and re-named ourselves Rook. It's the name most people were using anyway! Vox populi, vox Dei. While this is a short mental leap (our governance token was ROOK right from the beginning), it’s not quite so simple a change. But it is a necessar...