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9.8.25 / articles
Monetizing decentralized platforms: How blockchain startups can set prices and fees

Gérard CachonTolga DizdarerGerry Tsoukalas
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
popular tags
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
Top Tech Topics, Explained

Tim RoughgardenJoseph BonneauScott Duke KominersAli YahyaChris Dixon
8.6.22 / videos
An Evolution of Models for Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Sarah Meiklejohn
8.6.22 / videos
EigenLayr: Permissionless Feature Addition to Ethereum

Sreeram Kannan
7.30.22 / videos
Introduction to Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs)

Joseph Bonneau
7.30.22 / videos
Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms

Scott Duke Kominers
7.28.22 / articles
DAO governance attacks, and how to avoid them

Pranav GarimidiScott Duke KominersTim Roughgarden
6.29.22 / articles
Lightspeed Democracy: What web3 organizations can learn from the history of governance

Andrew HallPorter Smith
6.14.22 / podcasts
Auction Design for web3

Scott Duke KominersTim RoughgardenSonal Chokshi
6.2.22 / articles
Cryptoeconomics - an excerpt

a16z crypto editorial
9.30.21 / articles
A Novel Framework for Reputation-Based Systems

Jad EsberScott Duke Kominers
11.8.19 / articles
Crypto Glossary: Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain

Alex PrudenSonal Chokshi
6.26.19 / papers
Verifiable delay functions

Dan BonehJoseph BonneauBenedikt BüenzBen Fisch
11.24.17 / articles
Field Notes: Devcon3 — Ethereum Developer’s Conference

Michael Wee
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