Design Principles

The FastLane protocol was built around seven core design principles:

• User transactions are always as fast as (or faster than) Polygon’s “default” value.

• The removal of the correlation between transaction quantity and trading success.

• No added protections for those who would attack Polygon’s users.

• No custom code for validator nodes and only a one-line patch for sentry nodes.

• Validator liveness and “checkpointing” have neither infrastructure nor codebase dependencies on FastLane Labs.

• No additional security vulnerabilities or attack surfaces for validators.

• Extremely fast and frictionless validator onboarding