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## The knot that ties all together

So, on one hand we have parallelized execution layers, and on the other we have 'parallelized economic layers', if you wish. What connects these two concepts is called *causality*, and it is a very, very hot topic in some research areas at the moment (mainly quantum gravity and other complicated stuff, but I won't dwelve into it). The whole spiel of causality is understanding and describing what does it mean for different events to be related. You can see how in a world where the notion of time changes with respect to the observer (a bit like in distributed systems), or where you can instantly teleport things around, saying 'this event came before this one' becomes meaningless. Instead, we want to characterize the notion of 'causation' in a way that is completely independent from the notion of 'time'. If you like physics, a good, technical read about this is [here](https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08911).
So, on one hand we have parallelized execution layers, and on the other we have 'parallelized economic layers', if you wish. What connects these two concepts is called *causality*, and it is a very, very hot topic in some research areas at the moment (mainly quantum gravity and other complicated stuff, but I won't delve into it). The whole spiel of causality is understanding and describing what does it mean for different events to be related. You can see how in a world where the notion of time changes with respect to the observer (a bit like in distributed systems), or where you can instantly teleport things around, saying 'this event came before this one' becomes meaningless. Instead, we want to characterize the notion of 'causation' in a way that is completely independent from the notion of 'time'. If you like physics, a good, technical read about this is [here](https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08911).

Tarun is definitely on the right track when he points out in his thread that transactions in a Jito auction form a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). That's one way to see it, but we have more powerful tools in our toolbox that we can use.

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