My EC talk on Tullock contests in crypto/web3 is now on YT. (Link in replies.) Covers mining, staking, execution tickets, shared sequencing. Includes ongoing work with Pranav Garimidi mikeneuder.eth ⟠. Thx to Tarun Chitra Theo Diamandis K Kulkarni Mallesh Pai Max Resnick for the invite!

To all the haters that said restaking would never have slashing because people want risk-free points farming forever, note that restaking will have slashing before most of your favorite L1s

🎙️In our special end of year ep, Anna Rose Tarun Chitra guille and Nico look back at ZK in 2024, covering new ZK research, applications + what challenges still hold zk back. They also make a few predictions for 2025! zeroknowledge.fm/346-2/

From CBER CtCe, a must-watch presentation by Ed Felten Offchain Labs where he explains optimistic rollups: youtu.be/c3eWG2v_wRw

🔈 Announcing TLDR's 2025 Conference: May 12-13! Submit your research on DeFi, its underlying infrastructure & governance. Our mission is to showcase new theoretical results, empirical analyses & software implementations. Learn more: thelatestindefi.org/conference

The Blockchain Research seminar series organized by King's Business School is back! 🎉. We will kick off the new season with an exciting online talk by Julian from Ethereum Foundation on "Attester-Proposer Separation: Preserving Decentralization While Maximizing Performance".

⚠️ New Paper Alert from K Kulkarni, Karthik Srinivasan, + moi: Uniswap Labs 🦄 V4 hooks provide a wide surface for optimizing LP payoffs and onchain replicating portfolios A crucial facet of AMM success is the ease of being able to route trades across multiple pools How does this change in V4?

⚠️ New week, New Paper Q: What was the best way to profit market volatility in DeFi over the last year? A: Jupiter (🐱, 🐐)'s JLP pool How does this pool work? Is this yield real? Is it safe? Theo Diamandis, Ringer 🦊 🐸 🍜, Luke, Nathan Yang Sheng, and I explain!

If you’re feeling down, let me distract you with one of the best lectures that I’ve seen in a while youtu.be/5ZIIGLiQWNM?si…

how about decentralized network of MCP servers, incentivized based on no of requests addressed

TLDR's 2025 Conference tickets are now available for May 12-13, bringing together academics, engineers & practitioners to advance the state of DeFi research. → Keynotes: Georgios Konstantopoulos & seg → Program Schedule: thelatestindefi.org/schedule → Tickets: bit.ly/tldr-25

🙌 Congratulations to Pablo Penna and Manvir Schneider from the Cardano Foundation, who will present their paper Serial Monopoly on Blockchains with Quasi-patient Users at the Financial Cryptography in Japan on April 15 during Session 4: Modeling Bitcoin and Incentives at 09:00 JST.

Insightful keynote by Ed Felten on multidimensional resource pricing and also highlighting the link between EIP-1559 fee mechanism and online gradient descent (Zinkevich 2002).

👀Our June Cardano R&D webinar in association with the Intersect Research Working Group was a huge success, with over 80 community members participating. Our monthly sessions are a great way to get insights into our future research, and vision for the ecosystem. You heard it here

Join us at DeFi’25: Workshop on Decentralized Finance & Security, Co-located with ACM CCS 2025 on October 17, 2025. Submission deadline: July 21, 2025 (AoE) Thanks to our incredible program committee & chairs for making this happen: Aviv Yaish @christoftorres Alex Biryukov

New paper with Ariel Ben-Eliezer: “Online Block Packing”. arxiv.org/abs/2507.12357 Abstract: We consider the algorithmic challenge that is faced by blockchains that have multidimensional block constraints and serve quasi-patient bidders…

The submission deadline to the ACM CCS workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security has been extended to July 28, 2025 (AoE). Thanks to our incredible program committee & chairs. Aviv Yaish @christoftorres Alex Biryukov Chen-Da Jeremy Clark Jan Gorzny Zhe Ye Manvir Schneider Paweł Szałachowski

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