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11.20.24 / articles

Getting the bugs out of SNARKs: The road ahead

Justin Thaler

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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

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11.8.24 / videos

Pricing control and marketplace design

Gerry Tsoukalas

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11.8.24 / videos

AI and innovation

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

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11.1.24 / videos

Politics transformed? Electoral competition under ranked choice voting

Peter Buisseret

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11.1.24 / videos

Algorithms for fair, manipulation-robust, and transparent sortition

Bailey Flanigan

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11.1.24 / videos

Liquid democracy in the wild

Andrew Hall

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10.31.24 / articles

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

Andrew Hall

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10.25.24 / videos

Multidimensional TFM design

Guy Goren

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10.25.24 / videos

Local fee markets

Abdou Ndiaye

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10.25.24 / videos

Mechanism design for stake weighted QOS

Max Resnick

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10.25.24 / videos

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

Agostino Capponi

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10.25.24 / videos

Disintegrating searchers and builders

Quintus Kilbourn

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10.12.24 / articles

Science of Blockchain Conference ‘24: Field notes

Joseph BonneauPranav GarimidiJoachim Neu

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10.11.24 / videos

Does your blockchain need multidimensional fees?

Noam Nisan

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10.11.24 / videos

zkLogin: Onboarding the next billion users to web3

Deepak Maram

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10.11.24 / videos

Algorithmic contract theory and contractible contracts

Ron Lavi

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10.4.24 / videos

Threshold ECDSA in 3 rounds

Abhi Shelat

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10.4.24 / videos

Exponent-VRFs and their applications

Yehuda Lindell

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10.4.24 / videos

The past, present, and future of threshold Schnorr signatures

Chelsea Komlo

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10.4.24 / videos

The journey from academic research to industry deployment of cryptography

Yehuda Lindell

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10.4.24 / videos

Distributed randomness using weighted VRFs

Benny Pinkas

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9.27.24 / videos

Toward succinct proofs of solvency

Jeremy Clark

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9.27.24 / videos

Perpetual encryption

Yevgeniy Dodis

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9.20.24 / videos

Advanced security for SNARKs: A survey

Quang Dao

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9.20.24 / videos

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

Foteini Baldimtsi

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9.20.24 / videos

HyperNova: Toward practical zero-knowledge virtual machines

Abhiram Kothapalli

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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

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6.6.24 / articles

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

Andrew HallEliza Oak

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6.6.24 / articles

DAO research: A roadmap for experimenting with governance

Andrew HallEliza Oak

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6.3.24 / videos

The effects of retroactive rewards on participating in online governance

Andrew HallEliza Oak

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6.3.24 / articles

Understanding Jolt: Clarifications and reflections

Justin Thaler

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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

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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

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4.9.24 / videos

Correcting some SNARK misconceptions

Justin Thaler

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4.9.24 / videos

Jolt, zkVMs, and speeding up blockchains

Justin Thaler

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4.9.24 / articles

FAQ on Jolt’s initial implementation

Justin Thaler

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4.9.24 / articles

A new era in SNARK design: Releasing Jolt

Justin Thaler

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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

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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

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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

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11.20.23 / articles

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

Justin Thaler

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10.31.23 / videos

Holdup, innovation, and platform governance

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

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10.31.23 / videos

Using on-chain voting for information aggregation

Brett Falk

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10.24.23 / videos

Optimal flexible consensus and its application to Ethereum

Joachim Neu

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10.24.23 / videos

Manipulating leader selection in BFT protocols

Matt Weinberg

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10.24.23 / videos

Recent latest message driven GHOST

Luca Zanolini

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10.18.23 / articles

Designing reward systems for web3 governance

Eliza Oak

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10.17.23 / videos

Shoal: Improving DAG-BFT latency and robustness

Alexander (Sasha) Spiegelman

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10.17.23 / videos

Sui Lutris: Combining broadcast and consensus in a production blockchain

George Danezis

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10.17.23 / videos

Permissionless consensus

Andrew Lewis-Pye

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10.13.23 / videos

The Effects of Retroactive Rewards on Participating in Online Governance

Eliza OakAndrew Hall

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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

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9.26.23 / videos

Grassroots Cryptocurrencies: A Foundation for a Digital Economy

Ehud Shapiro

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9.26.23 / videos

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

Alex Tabarrok

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9.26.23 / videos

One Dollar, Many Flavors: Inferring Preferences for Stablecoins

Shai Bernstein

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9.21.23 / videos

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) for blockchain applications

Ari Juels

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9.21.23 / videos

High-frequency trading and the design of financial markets

Eric Budish

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9.21.23 / videos

Automated market making and arbitrage profits in the presence of fees

Ciamac Moallemi

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9.21.23 / videos

Transaction fee mechanism design with active block producers

Pranav Garimidi

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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

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9.12.23 / videos

Workshop on rollup sequencer economics: open questions, organized

Ben Fisch

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9.12.23 / videos

Workshop on Rollup Sequencer Economics: Open Questions, organized

Ben Fisch

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8.29.23 / videos

Post-Quantum Single Secret Leader Election

Dan Boneh

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8.29.23 / videos

Proving as Fast as Computing - Part 1

Ron Rothblum

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8.29.23 / videos

Proving as Fast as Computing - Part 2

Ron Rothblum

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8.29.23 / videos

BLS Multi-Signatures for Blockchain Applications

Foteini Baldimtsi

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8.29.23 / videos

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

Elaine Shi

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8.24.23 / videos

Limits on Revocable Proof Systems

Miranda Christ

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8.24.23 / articles

On the impossibility of stateless blockchains

Miranda ChristJoseph Bonneau

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8.22.23 / videos

It's All about Trust

Ittai Abraham

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8.22.23 / videos

Distributed Randomness Beacons

Joseph Bonneau

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8.22.23 / videos

Distributed Data Storage, DAS, and Danksharding

Valeria Nikolaenko

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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

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8.22.23 / videos

Adaptivity and Asynchrony in Distributed Key Generation

Sarah Meiklejohn

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8.10.23 / videos

Revisiting accepted wisdom in SNARK design

Justin Thaler

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8.10.23 / videos

Lasso, Jolt, and the Lookup Singularity, Part II

Justin Thaler

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8.10.23 / videos

Lasso, Jolt, and the Lookup Singularity, Part I

Justin Thaler

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8.10.23 / videos

The lookup singularity

Justin Thaler

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8.10.23 / videos

Lasso in a nutshell

Justin Thaler

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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

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5.15.23 / podcasts

Network Effects, Moats, & the Business of web3

Sonal ChokshiScott Duke Kominers

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5.5.23 / videos

Configurable Asset Privacy and Proof-Carrying Disclosures

Ben Fisch

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5.5.23 / podcasts

Of data availability & danksharding

Valeria NikolaenkoDan BonehRobert Hackett

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4.28.23 / videos

BlockSTM: Scaling Blockchain Execution

Rati Gelashvili

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4.27.23 / articles

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

Valeria NikolaenkoDan Boneh

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4.7.23 / videos

Interchain Timestamping for Interchain Security

David Tse

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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

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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

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2.3.23 / videos

Scaling Avalanche with Subnets and Specialized VMs

Patrick O’Grady

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1.31.23 / articles

Consensus Canon

Andrew Lewis-Pye

1.27.23 / videos

Consensus Based on Proofs of Space and Time

Bram Cohen

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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

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1.13.23 / videos

The Value of Decentralization Using the Blockchain: An Economic Analysis

Marco Reuter

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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

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12.16.22 / videos

Twilight: A Differentially Private Payment Channel Network

Saar Tochner

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12.16.22 / videos

Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Dynamic Participation

Ling Ren

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12.14.22 / articles

Asiacrypt ‘22: Field Notes

Joseph Bonneau

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12.9.22 / videos

Blockchain Incentives and Authentication

Ittay Eyal

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12.9.22 / videos

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

Kartik Nayak

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12.5.22 / articles

Theory of Cryptography Conference ‘22: Field Notes

Miranda Christ

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12.2.22 / videos

The Economics of Cryptocurrency Mining

Aviv Zohar

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12.2.22 / videos

Multi-Dimensional Blockchain Resource Pricing

Abdou Ndiaye

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11.30.22 / articles

Leader Election from Randomness Beacons and Other Strategies

Miranda ChristValeria NikolaenkoJoseph Bonneau

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11.18.22 / videos

SNARK Design Part III

Justin Thaler

11.18.22 / videos

De-Anonymization in Bitcoin

Sarah Meiklejohn

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11.18.22 / articles

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2022: Field Notes

Valeria Nikolaenko

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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

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11.4.22 / articles

Strategic Behavior in Cryptocurrency Protocols

Matt Weinberg

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11.4.22 / videos

Introduction to Selfish Mining

Matt Weinberg

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10.28.22 / videos

Arbitrage Extractable Value

Anthony Lee Zhang

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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

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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

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10.7.22 / videos

Introduction to Consensus (Part II)

Andrew Lewis-Pye

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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

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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

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9.9.22 / videos

How to Build Robust Payment Channel Networks

Zeta Avarikioti

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9.2.22 / videos

Bringing Decentralized Governance to Tech Platforms

Andrew Hall

9.2.22 / videos

The Evolution of Decentralized Governance

Andrew Hall

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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

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8.22.22 / videos

Digital Signatures for web3

Foteini Baldimtsi

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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

An Evolution of Models for Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Sarah Meiklejohn

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8.6.22 / videos

EigenLayr: Permissionless Feature Addition to Ethereum

Sreeram Kannan

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7.30.22 / videos

Introduction to Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs)

Joseph Bonneau

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7.30.22 / videos

Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms

Scott Duke Kominers

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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

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6.2.22 / articles

Cryptoeconomics - an excerpt

a16z crypto editorial

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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

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11.24.17 / articles

Field Notes: Devcon3 — Ethereum Developer’s Conference

Michael Wee

research

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From creative process to outcomes

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

6 decentralized governance trends for 2025

Formal methods for zero knowledge circuits

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

Consensus in blockchains: Overview and recent results

MiniCast: Minimizing the communication complexity of reliable broadcast

Getting the bugs out of SNARKs: The road ahead

Jolt: An update

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

Pricing control and marketplace design

AI and innovation

Politics transformed? Electoral competition under ranked choice voting

Algorithms for fair, manipulation-robust, and transparent sortition

Liquid democracy in the wild

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

Multidimensional TFM design

Local fee markets

Mechanism design for stake weighted QOS

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

Disintegrating searchers and builders

Science of Blockchain Conference ‘24: Field notes

Does your blockchain need multidimensional fees?

zkLogin: Onboarding the next billion users to web3

Algorithmic contract theory and contractible contracts

Threshold ECDSA in 3 rounds

Exponent-VRFs and their applications

The past, present, and future of threshold Schnorr signatures

The journey from academic research to industry deployment of cryptography

Distributed randomness using weighted VRFs

Toward succinct proofs of solvency

Perpetual encryption

Advanced security for SNARKs: A survey

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

HyperNova: Toward practical zero-knowledge virtual machines

3 takeaways on market design for web3 builders

How Tech Advances in Blockchains Benefit Other Industries

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

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

DAO research: A roadmap for experimenting with governance

The effects of retroactive rewards on participating in online governance

Understanding Jolt: Clarifications and reflections

Porter’s Five Forces and competitive advantage in web3

8 reasons why blockchain mechanism design is hard

Theory to code: Building the breakthrough zkVM Jolt

Zero Knowledge Summit (zkSummit) 2024: Field notes

Correcting some SNARK misconceptions

Jolt, zkVMs, and speeding up blockchains

FAQ on Jolt’s initial implementation

A new era in SNARK design: Releasing Jolt

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

New paper alert: Atomic and fair data exchange via blockchain

LVR in a minute with Tim Roughgarden

Pro tip: Implementing stateful invariant testing with Halmos

New paper alert: Naysayer proofs

The NFT Staircase: How digital ownership benefits brands and consumers

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

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

Holdup, innovation, and platform governance

Using on-chain voting for information aggregation

Optimal flexible consensus and its application to Ethereum

Manipulating leader selection in BFT protocols

Recent latest message driven GHOST

Designing reward systems for web3 governance

Shoal: Improving DAG-BFT latency and robustness

Sui Lutris: Combining broadcast and consensus in a production blockchain

Permissionless consensus

The Effects of Retroactive Rewards on Participating in Online Governance

Lasso + Jolt: An engineering overview

Visualizing Lasso: A fast new lookup argument for SNARKs

All About That Gas

Grassroots Cryptocurrencies: A Foundation for a Digital Economy

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

One Dollar, Many Flavors: Inferring Preferences for Stablecoins

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) for blockchain applications

High-frequency trading and the design of financial markets

Automated market making and arbitrage profits in the presence of fees

Transaction fee mechanism design with active block producers

Workshop on rollup sequencer economics: small group discussion