Small auditable boundaries. Conserved escrow. No transfer tax, no launch-NFT contact. A separate immutable protection keeper can selectively block non-launch ROTA transfer sources, including holder sells and module-sourced escrow or vault returns, until that keeper releases them. There is no automatic expiry.
Rota is the bond that turns arrival into a durable place in line. Makers escrow ROTA with inventory—WETH for bids or ROTA for asks—to join a shared FIFO CurbBook on the Uniswap V3 tick grid, inside an immutable TWAP-tick band. After Base includes a bond, that execution order is immutable and head-first; inclusion order remains a sequencer and priority-fee limitation. Takers fill the head at that tick’s V3-implied price, consumed inventory settles, and the maker’s bond returns after the protection keeper releases those transfers. If slot0.tick crosses a resting quote first, anyone can invalidate it and return its escrow after the same release; cancellation becomes available only after a fixed delay. Each address gets one live node per side. ROTA has immutable fixed supply, no transfer tax, and no launch-NFT contact. A separate immutable protection keeper can selectively block non-launch ROTA transfer sources, including holder sells and module-sourced escrow or vault returns, until that keeper releases them; there is no automatic expiry. Its possible demand comes from makers choosing to lock ROTA for time-priority on this WETH pair; unfilled bonds return after that release, making the model a bounded lock franchise rather than a burn tax. Early bid-queue seats near a shallow launch pool may be desirable, but adoption is neither assumed nor required.