@esnie17 is presenting Recovering from Excessive Faults for blockchains this week
at Usenix Security 2026.
w/ @kartik1507 and @AndrewLewisPye
(Url: eprint.iacr.org/2025/083)
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Blockchains rely on consensus/SMR/Atomic broadcast protocols to make sure all the…
Looking forward to attending SBC in Berkeley next week.
I will be speaking about Threshold AI Oracles at the Summit on Decentralization and AI (rdi.berkeley.edu/events/decentr…) on Sunday.
@EtherCS will present Frontrunning on DAG-based Blockchains at SBC on Tuesday.
Today, we introduce a new thesis: MEV has become the dominant limit to scaling blockchains.
Spectacularly wasteful onchain searching is starting to consume most of the capacity of most high-throughput blockchains.
This is a market failure we can no longer ignore.
Excited to present our paper Decentralization of Ethereum's Builder Market at @IEEESSP this week! Catch it in Session 1, Track 2: Blockchain I on May 13. If you are attending, feel free to come chat—happy to discuss anything related to blockchain/security!
🌟 Session number 1 is complete!
→ DeFi Arbitrage in Hedged Liquidity Tokens
@FictionomicsSIT
→ No Fish Is Too Big for Flash Boys! by @EtherCS
→ Dynamic Geometric Mean Market Makers by TLDR Fellow Adam Bouabda
Alibaba ($290B public company) subsidiary announces Eth L2
- evm compatible proprietary codebase (they built their own L2 tech stack)
- dual L1 proofs using zk and TEE
- public L2 anyone can use
- launch Q3 2025
ETH corporate L2 thesis is playing out
Google announced they will support privacy preserving age verification via zero-knowledge proofs.
You prove you have a signed digital copy of a drivers license and it says you are over 18 without revealing anything about you (name, birthdate, etc)
blog.google/products/googl…
The Blockchain consensus process maintains a consistent state when the number of Byzantine faults is bounded. But what if those bounds are broken?
A work led by @esnie17 offers a deterministic method for recovering and repairing blockchains from faulty states caused by…
@zhtluo came up with a cool idea Cauchyproofs (eprint.iacr.org/2025/038) for scalability and practicality of proof-serving nodes in stateless blockchain.
It is a batch-updatable vector commitment (in the KZG space) that enables proof-serving nodes to efficiently update proofs…
When you design a protocol, you usually have an idea of what attacks to expect.
The real ones you need to look out for are the attacks you don’t expect.
How? By understanding the problems at hand more deeply than anyone else.
How Libra Was Killed.
I never shared this publicly before, but since @pmarca opened the floodgates on @joerogan’s pod, it feels appropriate to shed more light on this.
As a reminder, Libra (then Diem) was an advanced, high-performance, payments-centric blockchain paired with a…
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