Arrakis primary sources — 2026-05-08

Official site

• https://arrakis.finance/
  • Best current product-level source for how Arrakis positions itself: self-custodial onchain market making for token issuers across multiple venues and asset classes.

Modular architecture docs

• https://docs.arrakis.finance/text/arrakisModular/overview.html
  • Best concise introduction to the Arrakis Modular system and the shift from venue-specific vault standards toward a universal Meta Vault standard.
• https://docs.arrakis.finance/text/arrakisModular/architecture/overview.html
  • Best map of the core control surfaces: Meta Vaults, modules, configuration, and security.
• https://docs.arrakis.finance/text/arrakisModular/architecture/metaVaults.html
  • Best source for the public-vs-private split: ERC20 public Meta Vaults for shared strategies versus NFT-owned private Meta Vaults for issuer or single-owner liquidity.
• https://docs.arrakis.finance/text/arrakisModular/architecture/modules.html
  • Best source for how venue-specific logic is abstracted into modules and how the manager role determines the active module.
• https://docs.arrakis.finance/text/arrakisModular/architecture/security.html
  • Best source for guardian pause powers, timelocks, and the docs’ explicit observation that module changes can be upgrade-like changes in vault behavior.

Legacy but still illuminating core repo

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ArrakisFinance/v2-core/master/README.md
  • Best direct source for the earlier owner/manager split in Arrakis V2: owner configures managers, routers, pools, and mint restrictions, while manager deploys liquidity into Uniswap v3 positions.
• https://github.com/ArrakisFinance/v2-core
  • Canonical code repository for the older vault architecture.

Official research / whitepaper-style material

• https://github.com/ArrakisFinance/research
  • Official research repository containing HOT AMM and other market-structure papers relevant to Arrakis’s current design direction.
• HOTAMM-Whitepaper.pdf
  • Saved locally from the official research repo as research/crypto/whitepapers/arrakis-hotamm-whitepaper.pdf.

Corpus takeaway

Arrakis matters because it makes market making look like configurable infrastructure rather than a fixed AMM product. The important control surfaces are:

1. whether liquidity is pooled publicly or kept issuer-private,
2. who can deploy or own each vault type,
3. which modules are whitelisted and activated,
4. what rights remain with manager versus owner,
5. how timelocks and guardian powers constrain public-vault changes, and
6. whether venue integration is treated as app logic or as a swappable module under a stable capital container.

That makes Arrakis a strong comparison class for LP-control-plane systems like Auto Finance and for modular pool frameworks like Valantis, while also helping explain how token-issuer liquidity management can centralize around strategy operators without taking direct custody.