BATTLE OF THE BOTS!! Who wins under the eyes of the law? An automated gen frontrunner bot or a profit seeking user who found the perfect opportunity, just to have it swiped from under their nose by an algorithm, no less. Come find out :) 0xMikolaj Alex Sarch

Not sure if your #MEV 🤖 is doing something illegal? A great place to start is to read new research by 💪0xMikolaj, natasha vasan, Alex Sarch Whitehats, this is for you to 🔗papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Isn’t it the people being REGULATED who determine if there is regulatory clarity or not?? not the REGULATOR

Such a no brainer for law students interested in the future of finance :) work with the best team, learn the best stuff

The literal hack of law school I unintentionally discovered in 1L crim by simply being my annoying, excited self :)

This is a super interesting problem space we discussed in my AI law class. It definitely illustrates the higher level compatibility where blockchain can be used to track verification in the upcoming age of torrential AI data, but still … deepfakes be SCARY

How should regulators respond to MEV? Some thoughts from my comment on IOSCO’s Report on Policy Recommendations for DeFi 👇

Go Michigan Digital Asset Law Association !!

Branding mev as theft underplays the role of market structure design in creating the dynamics of value leakage we’re seeing in decentralized applications. I’m no mkt microstructure expert, but I know we can’t rely on individual goodwill to create the trading dynamics we want

Investors were harmed 😒

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So excited for the fantastic (and fellow Michigan Law School grad 💙💛) zin to comment on our paper at tomorrow’s Crypto Law Seminar — register!!!! @ forms.gle/Xb2F5iodfV4WXE…

This is a great, succinct summary highlighting a core problem in DeFi that is at the root of many thorny legal issues. I particularly appreciate natasha vasan's comparison of our current blockchain infrastructure to modern risk-reducing and deterministic-enhancing analogs in

1/ My worst fears have been realized. Many will think that those are that Operation Chokepoint 2.0 is real. And here's the thing: I've known that for a while. What was not known to me was whether OCP 2.0 was founded on a concern about sophisticated understandings of the banking

New EU report on DeFi, touching on MEV and market manipulation. They cite our papers (with André Gomes, natasha vasan, Alex Sarch) and acknowledge some key points like that there is no natural transaction ordering on blockchains like Ethereum. But some clarification is needed..