Fellow: Yiyun/Miao Council: Pranav Garimidi Mentor: Naveen Durvasula Yiyun is an Econ PhD at École Polytechnique/ENSAE. By modeling the initial token allocation process as an effort-eliciting contest, Yiyun conjectures the Sybil risks of such token launches from the value distribution

Surreal to take the first step into the space among such a diverse group and under the mentorship from Pranav Garimidi, in full spirit to create some interesting, story-telling research!

Airdrops are a fascinating initial use case for ZK / blockchain-based identity / credential / attestation frameworks. The goals of an airdrop are: (i) distribute to community members [and not randos who will all immediately sell] (ii) reward contributions to the project (iii) be

One related point is that giving tokens away for free is not the only "form factor" that makes sense for this: you can also do discounted sales. I talk about reasons why to do this here: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/0… Depending on the degree of membership/contribution you can prove,

dcbuilder.eth ⚪️ World Worldcoin can handle the proof-of-personhood piece, which is good, but I think it needs to be supplemented with proofs of community membership. Nobody actually wants to give out a token to arbitrary humans, people want to give tokens to people who are aligned with their

Mathematical logic

started this research thinking i'd be the internal contrarian, showing negative economics of offering revert protection, and the result came out proving the opposite! turns out revert protection, offered trustlessly on Unichain, makes everyone better off, sequencer, LP, arbers!

🦴🦕 The FOCIL EIP is now EIP-7805 🦕🦴 This EIP proposes a committee-based, Fork-choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) mechanism to preserve Ethereum’s censorship resistance properties by guaranteeing timely transaction inclusion. by soispoke.eth, Francesco, Julian,

🐂🦴🦕 FOCIL aka EIP-7805 Bullpost 🐂🦴🦕 Why is FOCIL, now EIP-7805 so important? Today, block production on Ethereum is centralized. Two block builders are responsible for constructing more than 85% of all blocks. This is an issue that needs to be addressed because it

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