Why We Chose ROFL: Eliminating the Last Trust Assumption in Prop Trading

From day one, carrotfunding.io has been built around a simple idea: traders shouldn’t have to trust their prop firm. They should be able to verify everything themselves.

We’ve already replaced most of the black-box infrastructure that traditional prop firms rely on. Capital sits in rethink.finance vault infrastructure, not a company bank account. Trades execute through gTrade, not a proprietary matching engine you can’t inspect. Payouts settle on-chain.

But one piece remained centralized: the AWS-based engine that handles order execution and challenge evaluation logic. The system that decides whether you passed your challenge, how your drawdown is calculated, and whether your payout gets triggered.

Oasis changes this.

What We’re Building with Oasis

As announced on the Oasis blog, we’re integrated ROFL (Runtime Offchain Logic). Oasis Network’s verifiable compute framework as an independent verification layer for our evaluation engine.

Here’s what that means in practice: a ROFL instance runs in parallel with our existing AWS infrastructure. Every computation AWS performs, evaluation metrics, risk calculations, payout logic gets independently verified by ROFL inside a trusted execution environment (TEE). The output is a cryptographic proof, recorded on-chain, that anyone can check.

No trust required. No “just believe us.” Verifiable math.

Why This Matters for Traders

The prop trading industry has a well-documented trust problem. Firms control the evaluation logic. They decide if you passed. They decide if your payout gets approved. And historically, those decisions happen behind closed doors with zero accountability.

Most traders have either experienced or heard the stories: rule changes mid-challenge, discretionary payout denials, mysterious slippage on winning trades or evaluations that seem to shift depending on how much the firm owes you.

ROFL verification removes the entire category of risk. Every evaluation decision becomes cryptographically provable. Your challenge metrics aren’t decided by a human with a spreadsheet, they’re computed deterministically and verified independently.

If you pass, the proof is on-chain. If you don’t, the proof is on-chain. No discretionary grey area.

Why This Matters for Capital Backers

For investors providing capital to funded accounts, ROFL means confidence that allocation and risk management rules are being executed exactly as defined. Not approximately, not “usually,” but verifiably. Predetermined rules. Immutable execution. Cryptographic proof.

The Roadmap

ROFL verification launches as a parallel verification layer first. Every AWS computation gets a second, independent check. Long-term, the target is full migration to ROFL-only operation, removing AWS from the critical path entirely.

This is the final piece of infrastructure that makes carrotfunding.io fully verifiable end-to-end: on-chain capital, on-chain execution, on-chain evaluation, on-chain payouts.

No black boxes left.

Read the Full Technical Announcement

For implementation details and the Oasis team’s perspective on the integration, read the original announcement on the Oasis blog: Bringing Verifiable Compute to Onchain Prop Trading.