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(202) Results

8.14.25 / articles

Jolt gets a 6× speedup — and we’re just getting started

Markos GeorghiadesJustin ThalerAndrew TretyakovJulius ZhangMichael Zhu

7.15.25 / articles

On the limits of encrypted mempools

Pranav GarimidiJoseph BonneauLioba Heimbach

6.20.25 / articles

Manipulated signals in DePIN protocols

Jason MilionisJens ErnstbergerJoseph BonneauScott Duke KominersTim Roughgarden

5.15.25 / articles

MEV explained

Pranav GarimidiJoseph Bonneau

5.9.25 / articles

‘Accountable liveness’: New paper alert

Andrew Lewis-PyeJoachim NeuTim RoughgardenLuca Zanolini

5.6.25 / articles

Best of Real World Crypto 2025: Field notes

Joseph Bonneau

3.29.25 / podcasts

Congestion pricing: Economics, theory, reality

Michael OstrovskyScott Duke KominersRobert Hackett

3.14.25 / podcasts

Blockchain performance, demystified

Alexander (Sasha) SpiegelmanTim RoughgardenRobert Hackett

3.11.25 / articles

The path to secure and efficient zkVMs: How to track progress

Justin Thaler

2.27.25 / articles

Beyond 51% attacks: Precisely characterizing blockchain achievable resilience

Joachim NeuSrivatsan SridharErtem Nusret Tas

2.15.25 / videos

From creative process to outcomes

Sonal ChokshiHayden AdamsKidSuper

1.23.25 / articles

Introducing Twist and Shout: Next-generation memory checking for zkVMs and more

Justin Thaler

1.3.25 / articles

6 decentralized governance trends for 2025

Andrew Hall

11.22.24 / videos

Formal methods for zero knowledge circuits

Isil Dillig

11.22.24 / videos

Frosty: Bringing strong liveness guarantees to the Snow family of consensus protocols

Andrew Lewis-Pye

11.22.24 / videos

Consensus in blockchains: Overview and recent results

Christian Cachin

11.22.24 / videos

MiniCast: Minimizing the communication complexity of reliable broadcast

Victor Shoup

11.20.24 / articles

Getting the bugs out of SNARKs: The road ahead

Justin Thaler

11.12.24 / articles

Jolt: An update

Justin ThalerMichael Zhu

11.11.24 / articles

A look down Ethereum’s roadmap: The cases for FOCIL and multi-proposer schemes

Pranav Garimidi

11.8.24 / videos

Pricing control and marketplace design

Gerry Tsoukalas

11.8.24 / videos

AI and innovation

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

11.1.24 / videos

Politics transformed? Electoral competition under ranked choice voting

Peter Buisseret

11.1.24 / videos

Algorithms for fair, manipulation-robust, and transparent sortition

Bailey Flanigan

11.1.24 / videos

Liquid democracy in the wild

Andrew Hall

10.31.24 / articles

What happens when anyone can be your representative? Testing liquid democracy in web3

Andrew Hall

10.25.24 / videos

Multidimensional TFM design

Guy Goren

10.25.24 / videos

Local fee markets

Abdou Ndiaye

10.25.24 / videos

Mechanism design for stake weighted QOS

Max Resnick

10.25.24 / videos

Proposer-Builder Separation, payment for order flows, and centralization in blockchain

Agostino Capponi

10.25.24 / videos

Disintegrating searchers and builders

Quintus Kilbourn

10.12.24 / articles

Science of Blockchain Conference ‘24: Field notes

Joseph BonneauPranav GarimidiJoachim Neu

10.11.24 / videos

Does your blockchain need multidimensional fees?

Noam Nisan

10.11.24 / videos

zkLogin: Onboarding the next billion users to web3

Deepak Maram

10.11.24 / videos

Algorithmic contract theory and contractible contracts

Ron Lavi

10.4.24 / videos

Threshold ECDSA in 3 rounds

Abhi Shelat

10.4.24 / videos

Exponent-VRFs and their applications

Yehuda Lindell

10.4.24 / videos

The past, present, and future of threshold Schnorr signatures

Chelsea Komlo

10.4.24 / videos

The journey from academic research to industry deployment of cryptography

Yehuda Lindell

10.4.24 / videos

Distributed randomness using weighted VRFs

Benny Pinkas

9.27.24 / videos

Toward succinct proofs of solvency

Jeremy Clark

9.27.24 / videos

Perpetual encryption

Yevgeniy Dodis

9.20.24 / videos

Advanced security for SNARKs: A survey

Quang Dao

9.20.24 / videos

A novel approach to proof-of-replication via polynomial evaluation

Foteini Baldimtsi

9.20.24 / videos

HyperNova: Toward practical zero-knowledge virtual machines

Abhiram Kothapalli

9.19.24 / articles

3 takeaways on market design for web3 builders

Scott Duke Kominers

9.8.24 / podcasts

How Tech Advances in Blockchains Benefit Other Industries

Dan BonehTim RoughgardenSonal Chokshi

8.14.24 / articles

Key distribution on blockchains: The case for registration-based encryption

Noemi Glaeser

6.6.24 / articles

The web3 governance lab: Using DAOs to study political institutions and behavior at scale

Andrew HallEliza Oak

6.6.24 / articles

DAO research: A roadmap for experimenting with governance

Andrew HallEliza Oak

6.3.24 / videos

The effects of retroactive rewards on participating in online governance

Andrew HallEliza Oak

6.3.24 / articles

Understanding Jolt: Clarifications and reflections

Justin Thaler

5.20.24 / articles

Porter’s Five Forces and competitive advantage in web3

Scott Duke KominersLiang Wu

5.14.24 / articles

8 reasons why blockchain mechanism design is hard

Tim Roughgarden

5.2.24 / podcasts

Theory to code: Building the breakthrough zkVM Jolt

Justin ThalerSam RagsdaleMichael ZhuRobert Hackett

4.13.24 / articles

Zero Knowledge Summit (zkSummit) 2024: Field notes

Joseph Bonneau

4.9.24 / videos

Correcting some SNARK misconceptions

Justin Thaler

4.9.24 / videos

Jolt, zkVMs, and speeding up blockchains

Justin Thaler

4.9.24 / articles

FAQ on Jolt’s initial implementation

Justin Thaler

4.9.24 / articles

A new era in SNARK design: Releasing Jolt

Justin Thaler

4.9.24 / articles

Accelerating the world computer: Implementing Jolt, a new state-of-the-art zkVM

a16z crypto editorial

3.20.24 / articles

New paper alert: Atomic and fair data exchange via blockchain

Ertem Nusret TasIstván András SeresYinuo ZhangMárk MelczerMahimna KelkarJoseph BonneauValeria Nikolaenko

3.15.24 / videos

LVR in a minute with Tim Roughgarden

Tim Roughgarden

3.14.24 / articles

Pro tip: Implementing stateful invariant testing with Halmos

Antonio Viggiano

3.4.24 / articles

New paper alert: Naysayer proofs

István András SeresNoemi GlaeserJoseph Bonneau

2.21.24 / articles

The NFT Staircase: How digital ownership benefits brands and consumers

Scott Duke KominersSteve Kaczynski

11.20.23 / articles

A technical FAQ on Lasso, Jolt, and recent advancements in SNARK design

Justin Thaler

11.20.23 / articles

Boosting Lasso+Jolt through faster commitments – with far-reaching consequences

Justin Thaler

10.31.23 / videos

Holdup, innovation, and platform governance

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

10.31.23 / videos

Using on-chain voting for information aggregation

Brett Falk

10.24.23 / videos

Optimal flexible consensus and its application to Ethereum

Joachim Neu

10.24.23 / videos

Manipulating leader selection in BFT protocols

Matt Weinberg

10.24.23 / videos

Recent latest message driven GHOST

Luca Zanolini

10.18.23 / articles

Designing reward systems for web3 governance

Eliza Oak

10.17.23 / videos

Shoal: Improving DAG-BFT latency and robustness

Alexander (Sasha) Spiegelman

10.17.23 / videos

Sui Lutris: Combining broadcast and consensus in a production blockchain

George Danezis

10.17.23 / videos

Permissionless consensus

Andrew Lewis-Pye

10.13.23 / videos

The Effects of Retroactive Rewards on Participating in Online Governance

Eliza OakAndrew Hall

10.3.23 / videos

Lasso + Jolt: An engineering overview

Sam RagsdaleMichael Zhu

10.3.23 / videos

Visualizing Lasso: A fast new lookup argument for SNARKs

Michael Zhu

9.26.23 / videos

All About That Gas

Abdou Ndiaye

9.26.23 / videos

Grassroots Cryptocurrencies: A Foundation for a Digital Economy

Ehud Shapiro

9.26.23 / videos

Patents, Intellectual Property and the Rise of the Rent-Seeking Society

Alex Tabarrok

9.26.23 / videos

One Dollar, Many Flavors: Inferring Preferences for Stablecoins

Shai Bernstein

9.21.23 / videos

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) for blockchain applications

Ari Juels

9.21.23 / videos

High-frequency trading and the design of financial markets

Eric Budish

9.21.23 / videos

Automated market making and arbitrage profits in the presence of fees

Ciamac Moallemi

9.21.23 / videos

Transaction fee mechanism design with active block producers

Pranav Garimidi

9.12.23 / videos

Workshop on rollup sequencer economics: small group discussion

Ben Fisch

9.12.23 / videos

Tackling pain-points with optimistic rollups

Jeremy Clark

9.12.23 / videos

Workshop on rollup sequencer economics: open questions, organized

Ben Fisch

9.12.23 / videos

Workshop on Rollup Sequencer Economics: Open Questions, organized

Ben Fisch

8.29.23 / videos

Post-Quantum Single Secret Leader Election

Dan Boneh

8.29.23 / videos

Proving as Fast as Computing - Part 1

Ron Rothblum

8.29.23 / videos

Proving as Fast as Computing - Part 2

Ron Rothblum

8.29.23 / videos

BLS Multi-Signatures for Blockchain Applications

Foteini Baldimtsi

8.29.23 / videos

Oblivious RAM: From Theory to Large-Scale Real-World Deployment

Elaine Shi

8.24.23 / videos

Limits on Revocable Proof Systems

Miranda Christ

8.24.23 / articles

On the impossibility of stateless blockchains

Miranda ChristJoseph Bonneau

8.22.23 / videos

It's All about Trust

Ittai Abraham

8.22.23 / videos

Distributed Randomness Beacons

Joseph Bonneau

8.22.23 / videos

Distributed Data Storage, DAS, and Danksharding

Valeria Nikolaenko

8.22.23 / articles

Introducing our summer '23 research seminars

Tim Roughgarden

8.22.23 / videos

Beyond ZK: Next Steps for Compliance and Constrained Encryption on Blockchains

Matthew Green

8.22.23 / videos

Adaptivity and Asynchrony in Distributed Key Generation

Sarah Meiklejohn

8.10.23 / videos

Revisiting accepted wisdom in SNARK design

Justin Thaler

8.10.23 / videos

Lasso, Jolt, and the Lookup Singularity, Part II

Justin Thaler

8.10.23 / videos

Lasso, Jolt, and the Lookup Singularity, Part I

Justin Thaler

8.10.23 / videos

The lookup singularity

Justin Thaler

8.10.23 / videos

Lasso in a nutshell

Justin Thaler

8.10.23 / articles

Approaching the 'lookup singularity': Introducing Lasso and Jolt

Justin Thaler

8.10.23 / articles

Understanding Lasso and Jolt, from theory to code

Sam RagsdaleMichael ZhuJustin Thaler

7.14.23 / videos

Web3 business strategy

Scott Duke Kominers

7.14.23 / videos

Intro to intellectual property for web3

Scott Duke Kominers

7.12.23 / articles

17 misconceptions about SNARKs (and why they hold us back)

Justin Thaler

7.10.23 / articles

New paper alert: “Transaction Fee Mechanism Design with Active Block Producers”

Maryam BahraniPranav GarimidiTim Roughgarden

6.2.23 / videos

The theory and practice of web3 auctions

Michael ZhuScott Duke Kominers

6.2.23 / videos

Post-quantum blockchains

Valeria Nikolaenko

5.24.23 / articles

Building Cicada: Private on-chain voting using time-lock puzzles

Michael Zhu

5.16.23 / articles

A new mining tax on crypto?

Joshua Gans

5.15.23 / articles

Vampire attacks: A theory (and thread) on 'blood sucking' platform competition

John William HatfieldScott Duke Kominers

5.15.23 / podcasts

Network Effects, Moats, & the Business of web3

Sonal ChokshiScott Duke Kominers

5.5.23 / videos

Configurable Asset Privacy and Proof-Carrying Disclosures

Ben Fisch

5.5.23 / podcasts

Of data availability & danksharding

Valeria NikolaenkoDan BonehRobert Hackett

4.28.23 / videos

BlockSTM: Scaling Blockchain Execution

Rati Gelashvili

4.27.23 / articles

Data availability sampling and danksharding: An overview and a proposal for improvements

Valeria NikolaenkoDan Boneh

4.7.23 / videos

Interchain Timestamping for Interchain Security

David Tse

4.6.23 / articles

A new NFT launch strategy: The wave mint

Scott Duke Kominers1337 Skulls Sers

4.5.23 / articles

Checks and balances: Machine learning and zero-knowledge proofs

Elena Burger

3.3.23 / videos

Credible Auctions: A Trilemma

Mohammad Akbarpour

3.1.23 / videos

Deep Dive on Decentralization

Jesse WaldenRobert Leshner

3.1.23 / videos

Products and Protocol

Nitya Subramanian

3.1.23 / videos

Mechanism Design 101

Sam Williams

3.1.23 / videos

Secure Smart Contract Development

Jutta Steiner

2.10.23 / videos

Cryptoeconomic Security for Data Availability Committees

Ertem Nusret Tas

2.3.23 / videos

Scaling Avalanche with Subnets and Specialized VMs

Patrick O’Grady

1.31.23 / articles

Consensus Canon

Andrew Lewis-Pye

1.27.23 / videos

Consensus Based on Proofs of Space and Time

Bram Cohen

1.25.23 / articles

The cryptoeconomics of slashing

Sreeram KannanSoubhik Deb

1.19.23 / articles

The problem with slashing or majority rewards

Ethan Bueno de MesquitaAndrew Hall

1.13.23 / videos

The Value of Decentralization Using the Blockchain: An Economic Analysis

Marco Reuter

1.13.23 / articles

When is decentralizing on a blockchain valuable?

Marco Reuter

1.12.23 / articles

Progressive decentralization: a high-level framework

Jad EsberScott Duke Kominers

1.6.23 / videos

Foundations of Transaction Fee Mechanism Design

Elaine Shi

12.16.22 / videos

Twilight: A Differentially Private Payment Channel Network

Saar Tochner

12.16.22 / videos

Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Dynamic Participation

Ling Ren

12.14.22 / articles

Asiacrypt ‘22: Field Notes

Joseph Bonneau

12.9.22 / videos

Blockchain Incentives and Authentication

Ittay Eyal

12.9.22 / videos

He-HTLC: Revisiting Incentives in Hashed Time-Locked Contracts

Kartik Nayak

12.5.22 / articles

Theory of Cryptography Conference ‘22: Field Notes

Miranda Christ

12.2.22 / videos

The Economics of Cryptocurrency Mining

Aviv Zohar

12.2.22 / videos

Multi-Dimensional Blockchain Resource Pricing

Abdou Ndiaye

11.30.22 / articles

Leader Election from Randomness Beacons and Other Strategies

Miranda ChristValeria NikolaenkoJoseph Bonneau

11.18.22 / videos

SNARK Design Part III

Justin Thaler

11.18.22 / videos

De-Anonymization in Bitcoin

Sarah Meiklejohn

11.18.22 / articles

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2022: Field Notes

Valeria Nikolaenko

11.8.22 / articles

Paying People to Participate in Governance

Ethan Bueno de MesquitaAndrew Hall

11.5.22 / articles

CESC ‘22: Field Notes from the Zero Knowledge Workshop

Valeria Nikolaenko

11.4.22 / articles

Strategic Behavior in Cryptocurrency Protocols

Matt Weinberg

11.4.22 / videos

Introduction to Selfish Mining

Matt Weinberg

10.28.22 / videos

Arbitrage Extractable Value

Anthony Lee Zhang

10.28.22 / videos

Liquidity Provision and Automated Market Making

Ciamac Moallemi

10.21.22 / videos

The Blocklace: A Partially-Ordered Generalization of the Blockchain

Ehud Shapiro

10.18.22 / articles

Public Randomness and Randomness Beacons

Joseph BonneauValeria Nikolaenko

10.14.22 / videos

DAG Meets BFT: The Next Generation of BFT Consensus

Alexander (Sasha) Spiegelman

10.14.22 / videos

Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG)-Based Consensus Protocols: An Introduction

Andrew Lewis-Pye

10.7.22 / videos

Introduction to Consensus (Part II)

Andrew Lewis-Pye

10.7.22 / videos

Introduction to Consensus (Part I)

Andrew Lewis-Pye

10.7.22 / articles

On Paper to On-Chain: How Auction Theory Informs Implementations

Michael Zhu

9.19.22 / articles

LVR: Quantifying the Cost of Providing Liquidity to Automated Market Makers

Jason MilionisCiamac MoallemiTim RoughgardenAnthony Lee Zhang

9.16.22 / videos

Introduction to Validating Bridges and Layer-2 Protocols

Patrick McCorry

9.16.22 / articles

Zero Knowledge Canon, part 1 & 2

Elena BurgerBryan ChiangSonal ChokshiEddy LazzarinJustin ThalerAli Yahya

9.13.22 / articles

SNARK Security and Performance

Justin Thaler

9.12.22 / podcasts

Ethereum, Merge and Beyond

Tim BeikoTim RoughgardenAli YahyaSonal Chokshi

9.12.22 / articles

SBC 22: Field Notes From Science of Blockchain 2022

Elena BurgerBryan ChiangValeria NikolaenkoDaejun ParkCarra WuGuy Wuollet

9.10.22 / articles

NFT Sales: Clearing the Market, Avoiding Gas Wars

Scott Duke KominersTim Roughgarden

9.9.22 / videos

Mechanisms to Infer the Wisdom of the Crowd

Mallesh M. Pai

9.9.22 / videos

How to Build Robust Payment Channel Networks

Zeta Avarikioti

9.2.22 / videos

Bringing Decentralized Governance to Tech Platforms

Andrew Hall

9.2.22 / videos

The Evolution of Decentralized Governance

Andrew Hall

8.29.22 / podcasts

PoS Blockchains - Designs, Consensus, Attacks

Valeria NikolaenkoTim RoughgardenSonal Chokshi

8.26.22 / videos

Anonymous Credentials and Decentralizing ID Systems

Foteini Baldimtsi

8.22.22 / videos

Digital Signatures for web3

Foteini Baldimtsi

8.18.22 / videos

SNARK Design, Part II

Justin Thaler

8.18.22 / videos

SNARK Design, Part I

Justin Thaler

8.13.22 / videos

Long-range Attacks on Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Blockchains

Valeria Nikolaenko

8.13.22 / videos

A Survey of Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Blockchain Designs

Valeria Nikolaenko

8.11.22 / articles

Measuring SNARK performance: Frontends, backends, and the future

Justin Thaler

8.8.22 / articles

Why blockchain performance is hard to measure

Joseph Bonneau

8.6.22 / podcasts

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