OrdoFi runs on its own Robinhood Chain infrastructure. Node operators provide the low-latency, trace-capable nodes that power measurement, serving, and — in Phase 3 — verifiable sequencing.
A dedicated full node is the backbone of the execution layer. It removes public-RPC rate limits, exposes debug_traceTransaction for honest MEV accounting, and — colocated in AWS us-east-2 next to the sequencer — provides the latency to win first-come-first-served backrun races.
The node runs offchainlabs/nitro-node in archive mode with --http.api=net,web3,eth,debug,arb. Point the gateway, auction, watcher, and trace analyzer at it via ORDO_RPC_URL.
debug_traceTransaction, run npm run trace to compute true per-transaction MEV profit via prestate-diff — the honest USD numbers the public RPC can't provide.
The endgame mirrors what makes execution layers credible: operators running Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) that keep transaction ordering private until execution and produce cryptographic attestations that sequencing followed the rules. This requires integration with Robinhood's sequencing infrastructure and is on the Phase 3 roadmap.