Energy Labs

Energy Labs is a zero-fee trading venue on Base where matching happens in batch auctions: orders enter a batch first and then fill at a single clearing price, avoiding the front-running and accumulated slippage of order-by-order matching. It targets traders sensitive to execution cost at moderate order sizes.

Mechanically, buys and sells in the same batch settle at one price derived from the batch's supply and demand curve, with unmatched portions returned. Cross-chain swaps run through a routing contract, and source-chain assets are delivered on the destination chain in wrapped form. Operating costs are covered by protocol subsidies rather than an explicit user fee, with subsidy size tied to batch volume. Liquidity comes from market makers' quote commitments, locked at the start of a batch and refreshed after it closes.