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microfoundations for the price of anarchy 🔥🔥🔥

OH (from a famous theoretical computer scientist): "if SNARKs can be made practical, *anything* can be made practical"

as you all know, the holidays are the best time to read a paper and give a summary on twitter 🧵this paper explores designs for shill-proof auctions and is interesting to me because art and crypto share many of the same opaque, wash trading-esque value conferral dynamics

Major zkVM advance by Justin Thaler and Srinath Setty

Check out this conversation with a16z crypto's head of research Tim Roughgarden, alongside top researchers Pranav Garimidi, Scott Kominers, Joachim Neu, Justin Thaler and Joseph Bonneau. They unpack the latest web3 research trends and areas of expertise—from incentives and market design to

"When someone subjects you to a new definition, especially a weird one, you should demand two things: interesting consequences of satisfying the definition, and interesting examples that satisfy the definition" — coach Tim Roughgarden

What do people really mean when they talk about blockchain performance? Aptos Labs’ Head of Research Alexander Spiegelman joins a16z crypto Head of Research Tim Roughgarden and show host Robert Hackett to discuss ways technologists are trying to maximize throughput and minimize latency

💥Tim Roughgarden💥 (a16z crypto and Columbia) is giving a seminar on Thursday, 29 May 2025: "Shill-Proof Auctions" (with Andrew Komo and Scott Kominers). Guest panellists: Marek Pycia and Zhou Yu. Tim Roughgarden Scott Kominers