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a reflection on a year of operating a filler - Deor

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for the past year, i've been working at Reservoir as one of the core devs on the main filler that powers relay.link. Reservoir hosts a UI for cross-chain swapping & bridging, a gateway API to send intents to, and currently the main filler that fills these intents. as of the time of this writing, the filler we operate has settled 7.4 million cross chain intents this year, approximately ~$500 million in USD value. We fill intents across 41 different EVM chains, solana, and bitcoin. this post won't be discussing the trustless relay protocol, the relay.link UI, or the gateway API. It will strictly be about the filler side of things, what I am most familiar with and feel most confident talking about. before we get started i think it's important to establish a definition for a filler as well as some other commonly referred to actors in the context of cross-chain intents. the most commonly referred to actor in the context of intents is a solver. a solver is someone who creates the onchain rou

← back nov 22 2024 contents whats a filler? reflection swaps... what's next? for the past year, i've been working at Reservoir as one of the core devs on the main filler that powers relay.link. Reservoir hosts a UI for cross-chain swapping & bridging , a gateway API to send intents to , and currently the main filler that fills these intents . as of the time of this writing, the filler we operate has settled 7.4 million cross chain intents this year, approximately ~$500 million in USD value . We fill intents across 41 different EVM chains, solana, and bitcoin . this post won't be discussing the

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