Is-a-fork-of
Orca's assessment for RD-F-126 — scored not_applicable on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
Orca Whirlpools is an original Anchor/Rust Solana program, not a fork of any upstream protocol. GitHub repo (github.com/orca-so/whirlpools) shows no fork relationship. Founded by Grace Kwan and Yutaro Mori as an original protocol starting Feb 2021. The mathematical approach (tick-spacing, sqrt-price CLMM) is conceptually informed by Uniswap v3 design principles but is an independent Rust implementation for SVM. No bytecode similarity measurement applicable (non-EVM, different runtime). No upstream fork to identify.
Sources #
- URLGemini Cryptopedia — Orca AMM v1 launched February 2021https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/orca-crypto-exchange-solana-dex-orca-tokenretrieved 2026-05-16
- Orca Whirlpools GitHub repo (no FV spec directory found)https://github.com/orca-so/whirlpoolsretrieved 2026-05-16
Methodology #
Identify the upstream protocol this is a fork of (if any) via bytecode similarity, function-selector set overlap, or team declaration.
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