20% ON THE EU, 34% ON CHINA, 46% ON VIETNAM, 24% ON JAPAN, 49% ON CAMBODIA, 25% ON SOUTH KOREA, 36% ON THAILAND, 47% ON MADAGASCAR, 38% ON GUYANA

Thank you to the wonderful folks at IC3 for an engaging conversation that explores my background, the early story of Avalanche and Ava Labs, our accomplishments in the space, and our continued efforts to advance the industry.

New comment in Nature by me and Sayash Kapoor on the risks of the extremely rapid ongoing adoption of AI in science nature.com/articles/d4158… One risk is that machine-learning-based modeling is tricky to do correctly and this has led to a reproducibility crisis, which our research has

From looking at academic conference agendas, you'd think payment channel networks were the biggest thing happening in crypto

Jeremy Clark Dan Robinson I think this phenomenon is fascinating. Are there some other examples from different fields? And is it a problem that deserves intervention? Curiosity-driven research seems like it should result in this sometimes, regardless of funding pressure

#FinTeAchIn April 18th fc25.ifca.ai/finteachin/pro… co-located w/ #FinancialCryptography #FC2025 Program: DeFi Literacy, DAOs for Finance (new book by liebauda & Sandy Oh, blockchain loyalty programs, Open Finance curriculum, hands-on activity, & fireside chat w/ Johnnatan Messias

Check out my latest article: FinTeAchIn’25 Recap: Building a Safe and Engaging Space for FinTech Innovation and Learning #FinTeAchIn #FC2025 linkedin.com/pulse/finteach… via LinkedIn

Polymarket Reminder: when the probability jumps up from 20% to 50%, that doesn't mean that it's going to keep going up until it hits 100%; rather, it means that it has a 50% chance of doing that, and a 50% chance of coming right back down to earth and then going further.

Gonna give a keynote talk at Token2049 in Dubai tomorrow morning (in Dubai time). The organisers said the Dubai regulator had to review all presenter’s slides in advance, so I decided to go with no slides except this:

Parka in the morning, shorts in the afternoon.

nader dabit Hyperliquid GTE Valhalla Avon World Capital Markets Love this! we actually broke this down in our FC 2022 paper w Jeremy Clark on onchain order books (arxiv.org/abs/2101.06291), made a table comparing CLOBs, AMMs, and call markets. CLOBs really stood out on price control, order types, and slippage. cool to see the same points here too!

Congrats to Mahsa Moosavi, PhD for becoming a PhD doctor today! She was doing research on Arbitrum when it was still on testnet, front running before we had the term “MEV”, and stablecoins almost 5 years ago. Well deserved!

Congrats to Barry for graduating with his masters degree! He became a polyIOP expert working on a book of gadgets (plonkbook.org) and succinct proofs of solvency! We will miss you at Concordia University but good luck University of Alberta!

congratulations to our very own Mahsa Moosavi, PhD on earning her PhD 👏 big moves only

Many people have told us that this is one of the most memorable opening paragraphs they've come across in a book. 🙏 The funny thing is that the analogy wasn't a hit with reviewers, so we were going to take it out, but had a last minute change of heart because our editor liked

Announcing the Financial Cryptography 2026 call for papers. Paper deadline is Sep 16 (not a ton of time!) w/ Co-chair Stefanie Roos (RPTU) fc26.ifca.ai/cfp.html