Pinto is paving the way for trustless execution at scale.

Transacting in the EVM has historically been complex and time-consuming for most users. Only the small subset with the technical skills and resources to code smart contracts and spin up servers can execute sophisticated strategies at speed and scale.

Despite attempts to broaden access to automated strategies through open-source solutions, the cost of operating personal bots remains prohibitively high for average users. Furthermore, bots-as-a-service present significant adoption friction given the all-or-nothing nature of approval systems in existing token implementations. Users cannot easily specify precise conditions under which one's funds can be spent by the service, so significant verification or trust is required. This dynamic fails to adhere to leviathan-free principles like trustlessness while bearing significant economic costs on the system itself.

Built on top of the Pinto protocol, Tractor is a trustless, P2P tool that allows farmers to delegate specific actions without surrendering total control of their assets. Tractor empowers users beyond merely permissioning how many tokens a given party can spend on one's behalf to trustlessly specifying which actions said party can take. Pinto users thus gain unprecedented ease and strategic customization, accessing functionalities previously limited to those with significant technical expertise and capital.

Tractor's first use case makes every farmer a master of the Field. The Soil Orderbook allows farmers to submit Tractor orders to automatically sow from their deposits at desired conditions. The Soil Orderbook includes several key features:

• Setting a maximum place in line for Sowing;

• Choosing to execute during or after the conclusion of the Morning Auction;

• Specifying a minimum/maximum amount of Pinto to Sow per Season (allowing for gradual Sowing over time);

• Sow from specific Deposited assets or use various pre-built strategies–farmers can choose to Sow from Deposits with the lowest Seeds or the highest price;

• Setting operator fees for order execution.

In addition, the Field and Overview UI has been revamped to support this functionality, giving farmers visibility into Tractor activity in the field and highlighting which of their orders are executable within the next season. A transparent Tractor market will enable farmers to set their orders in response to real time conditions.

Dev Thoughts: Why Soil Orderbook First?

The Field functions optimally when farmers Sow as soon as the Temperature reaches a desirable level. Currently, this requires constant monitoring and action, which creates a high cost to play efficiently. With PI-6, which significantly decreased the availability of Soil (and ramps it up continuously over Seasons in which Soil is sold out), farmers wishing to sow more than the available Soil must return to the Farm each season, with no guarantee that someone else won’t Sow before them. This high friction has discouraged activity in the Field and in turn pushed the Temperature to unnecessary heights.

The Soil Orderbook drastically enhances the Field's efficiency by allowing farmers to predetermine ideal sowing conditions and desired sow amounts. This eliminates most of the friction associated with monitoring the system and executing Sowing actions, marking an unprecedented decrease in user friction that will also improve the fidelity of the data with regards to the parameterization of the Field.

What's Next? (Future Work)

The Soil Orderbook is designed with composable code to streamline the deployment of additional Tractor applications, including:

• Automated Conversions: Triggered at target prices or when the Convert mechanism grants certain Stalk bonuses or penalties;

• Enhanced Pod Marketplace: Enabling Orders through Deposits in addition to Pinto, or allowing dynamic listing prices as a function of place in the Podline;

• Deposit Marketplace: allowing users to buy and sell Deposits, facilitating price discovery for Stalk.

Future enhancements to the Soil Orderbook itself may include:

• Facilitating the purchase of Soil with non-Silo Deposit assets (e.g., ERC20 tokens).

• Including more strategies (e.g., use Deposits with the least Grown Stalk across all Silo Deposits)

• Introducing variable sowing amounts over seasons (e.g., scaling from 10 to 500 Pinto per season).

Possibilities are endless.

Tractor represents a transformation in the sophistication and ease with which humble farmers can tend to their crops, and does so in a trustless fashion. As automated strategies continue to evolve, the power in the hands of individual users and the overall efficiency of the ecosystem will only increase. The team is excited to see how existing and future participants will use this awesome tool on the Farm and to learn how the model can be refined as a result.

-frijo

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