Over the past three summers a16z crypto we've had 19 tremendous research interns. Want to be part of the summer '25 cohort? The application is open now, for full consideration apply by Nov 8. (Link in replies.)

Dionysis Zindros kicking off the Science and Engineering of Consensus workshop at SBC’25, talking about pod network

How did I end up a Mathematician? (long story) As a child, my dad said to me "our family isn't good in math" and I, preferring soccer and dating to anything involving brain work, accepted this as truth. As an undergrad I studied Biology and CS, to go into Neuroscience (I ended

someone: imagine having $10m and an unlimited pool of extraordinary talent for the next 2 years. what would you build? me: pod, wouldn’t change a bit! *realising the opportunity is surreal at times*

Are existing consensus protocols censorship-resistant, or do we need a new one? 🤔 Hear Odysseas Sofikitis, one of our scientists from the Common Prefix team, unbox this.

Enshrining Rollup-Boost with censorship-resistant auctions on pod. L2s suffer from spamming by MEV bots, making them slower and expensive for users. Rollup-Boost with pod solves this problem using 200ms censorship-resistant priority auctions. Here's how it works👇 1/5

We are proposing to decentralise the CoW solver auctions using pod network. pod can be used to conduct real-time censorship resistant solver auctions with no performance degradation. This is the first step towards making the CoW protocol decentralised and credibly neutral. CoW

Lots of neat ideas behind this proposal! Check it out!

Explorer Update: Now you can browse and bid in live auctions on pod directly from the explorer. 👉explorer.v1.pod.network

auctions are live on the pod explorer! killer feature: create and fund a test wallet on the explorer to interact with auctions.

Something's brewing at the Common Prefix offices. Stay tuned!

I would say pod network is one of those networks that I just can't say to: "This could just have been a L2" You should check it out, quite cool: - They trade ordering guarantees for creating a very low latency distributed ledger - Validators don't need to gossip, vote, etc -

New research center focused on blockchain infrastructure Columbia Engineering ! Made possible by Ethereum Foundation. Super-excited about this, more to come!

did you know pod was born in 🇬🇷 ? dropping 𝛂 is just on brand.

We're excited to host the 6th Decentralized Meetup this Friday at our Athens office. Join us for three technical talks — from privacy-preserving rollups to smart contract security & verification — followed by drinks, food, and networking. luma.com/3n6es7c7?tk=bE…

If you’re in Athens, join us this Friday at 18:00 @ CP office

See y'all Friday!

Recently Common Prefix organized a wonderful on-site in Athens. I co-hosted a ZK workshop, building a zero-knowledge version of the battleship game in ZoKrates: github.com/commonprefix/z… Check out the code, it is educative! Parts are left as exercises, can you fill them out?

Everything runs on ledgers — from banks and governments to entire economies. Blockchains can transform them into a global, scientific system of trust. Watch Dionysis Zindros keynote “The Vision of Blockchain” (Panathenea 2025, Athens). 1/3