[Epic] 6.1: One auction per block

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Epic label: E:6.1 One auction per block
Planned start date: February 2024
Due date: April 2024

Summary

Currently auctions are scheduled and processed somewhat randomly on a best-effort basis (whenever we are done with the previous auction, we start a new one). The goal of this EPIC is to align the auction process with the block production process and speed up the different steps of the auction in such a way that we can process an entire runloop (cutting, solving, submitting) within 12s.

This will allow us to perform one auction per block and thus dramatically speed up throughput and mean execution time for our users.

Acceptance Criteria

Auctions are aligned with the block production process. We don't necessarily have to reduce the time to one auction per block (may be too ambitious on e.g. Gnosis Chain), but the limiting factor should be the time that solvers are given to solve the auction (cutting and submitting solutions should be on a per-block basis)

Tasks