crypto reading list
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may 2024
- EIGEN: The Universal Intersubjective Work Token; EigenLayer; May 2024- Simplified Active Validator Cap and Rotation Proposal; Vitalik; March 2021
- Uncrowdable Inclusion Lists: The Tension between Chain Neutrality, Preconfirmations and Proposer Commitments; Julian; April 2024
- Digital Currency Wars; Harvard Kennedy Center; January 2020
- Futarchy: Vote Values, But Bet Beliefs; Robin Hanson; 2013
- Based proposer commitments - Ethereum's marketplace for proposer commitments; Drew; May 2024
- ReGOOSE: Updated goals for Lido in the light of MVI and restaking; Hasu; May 2024
- Some personal musings on the Ethereum issuance debate; Sacha; April 2024
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april 2024
- Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity; Vitalik; November 2014- Suggested average-case improvements to reduce capital costs of being a Casper validator; Vitalik; October 2018
- Rate-limiting entry/exits, not withdrawals; Vitalik; Febrauary 2019
- Weak subjectivity under the exit queue model; Vitalik; March 2019
- Analysis on ”Correlated Attestation Penalties”; Toni; April 2024
- Block-auction ePBS versus Execution Ticket; Terence; April 2024
- The Bitcoin Halving will be reorged; Tristan; January 2024
- The Spectre of MEV on Bitcoin; Walt; March 2024
- Analysis on Weak Subjectivity in Ethereum 2.0; Daejun & Aditya; December 2020
- Weak Subjectivity in Eth2.0; Aditya; September 2020
- More pictures about proposers and builders; Barnabé; April 2024
- Reconsidering the market structure of PBS; Barnabé; March 2024
- Appointed Execution Proposers: Because the Proposer you know...; Conor; March 2024
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march 2024
- Inclusion List (EIP-7547) End to End Workflow; Terence; February 2024- EIP-7623; Toni, Vitalik; February 2024
- Analyzing EIP-7623: Increase Calldata Cost; Toni; March 2024
- Initial Analysis of Stake Distribution; Julian; March 2024
- How to Raise the Gas Limit, Part 1: State Growth; Storm & Georgios; March 2024
- ILs to bundle or not to bundle; Potuz; March 2024
- Deneb – The Beacon Chain
- Deneb – Fork Choice
- Deneb – Networking
- Deneb – Honest Validator
- Extend Inclusion List (EIP-7547) for Blob Tx; Terence; March 2024
- Economic Analysis of Execution Tickets; Jonah & Davide; March 2024
- The Future of MEV; Jonah; March 2024
- Lifecycle of a Solana Transaction; Eugene, Buffalu; May 2023
- MEV on Solana; Eugene, Edgar; May 2023
- An Introduction to Ethereum’s Next Major Upgrade: Proto-Danksharding; Aaron; January 2024
- The more, the less censored: Introducing committee-enforced inclusion sets (COMIS) on Ethereum; Thomas; February 2024
- Lido tiebreaker committee (one pager); Sacha; March 2024
- Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?; Vitalik; March 2024
- What else could memecoins be?; Vitalik; March 2024
- Crypto's broken moral compass; Polynya; March 2024
- Preparing for the Dencun Hard Fork; Sarah; March 2024
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february 2024
- Cyprus and Crypto, Tron's Network Effect; Dogan; January 2024- Congestion control and eip1559; Barnabé; February 2021
- The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications; Vitalik; January 2024
- The end of my childhood; Vitalik; January 2024
- What Are Ordinals? Bitcoin NFTs Explained; Chainlink; November 2023
- Light Clients; ethereum.org; November 2023
- State Lock Auctions: Towards Collaborative Block Building; dmarz; February 2024
- On Increasing the Block Gas Limit; Toni and Vitalik; February 2024
- Modular Money: Liquid Staking for People in a Hurry; Jon; February 2024
- Unbundling staking: Towards rainbow staking; Barnabé; February 2024
- Decentralization Isn't Everything. It's the Only Thing; Omid; February 2024
- ePBS design constraints; Potuz; February 2024
- Endgame Staking Economics: A Case for Targeting; Ansgar & Caspar; February 2024
- Semantics of Staking 3: Advanced Constructions; Barnabé; February 2024
- Latency is Money: Timing Games /acc; DataAlways; February 2024
- Leaderless Auctions; Paradigm; February 2024
- Payload Boosts in ePBS; Potuz; February 2024
- Paths to hardening PBS; Francesco; February 2024
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january 2024
- Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again; Vitalik; December 2023- Sticking to 8192 signatures per slot post-SSF: how and why; Vitalik; December 2023
- From 4844 to Danksharding: a path to scaling Ethereum DA; Francesco; December 2023
- MEV Committee - December Report; Karl; January 2024
- Exploring Eclipse's Canonical Ethereum Bridge and Proving System; Eclipse Team; January 2024
- From Players to Gods: Games & Autonomous Worlds; Katie; January 2024
- Building Faster ORAM; gconnell; August 2022
- Cosmos. Ethereum. EigenLayer.; kydo; January 2024
- Distinguishing MEV from expected noise; dydx team; September 2023
- Properties of issuance level (part 1); Anders; January 2024
- Deconstructing Account Abstraction; Artem; January 2024
- Based rollups can reward proposers first come first serve; mteam; January 2024
- A rollup-centric ethereum roadmap; Vitalik; October 2020
- EIP-7251; Emmanuel Awosika; January 2024
- The proof supply chain; Nick; January 2024
- Semantics of Staking 1: Liquefaction; Barnabé; November 2023
- Semantics of Staking 2: Re-staking; Barnabé; January 2024
- What comes after Ethereum's Cancun hard fork?; Georgios; January 2024
- A note on EIP-3074; matt; December 2023
- Megapools; Kane Wallmann; August 2023
- EIP-7002; Danny, Mikhail, Ansgar, Hsiao-Wei; May 2023
- Crypto's Three Body Problem; Sam, Toby, Laura; January 2024
- Deneb honest validator; consensus specs; accessed January 2024
- Deneb the beacon chain; consensus specs; accessed January 2024
- Interchain Security Begins a New Era for Cosmos; Christina; May 2023
- The Two Most Important Climate Plots in the World Right; Tyler; January 2024
- Prysm: Electra Upgrade; Preston; January 2024
- On Block Sizes, Gas Limits and Scalability; Toni; January 2024
- Sigp Lighthouse team: Pectra views; lion; January 2024
- Making Sense of Tether on Tron; Liam; January 2024
- Optimium, AnyTrust, Sidechain; Brendan; January 2024
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december 2023
- When to sell your blocks; Quintus & Conor; December 2023- MEV & The Evolution of Crypto Exchange; Ben; November 2023
- Ethereum Supply Chain, Part 2; 0x_emperor; December 2023
- Live versus Dead Players; Samo Burja; March 2018
- Decentralized crypto needs you: to be a geographical decentralization maxi; Phil; March 2023
- Control Flow Graph reconstruction for EVM bytecode; Frank; December 2023
- Shutterized Beacon Chain; cducrest; March 2022
- What Is SVM - The Solana Virtual Machine; squads; April 2023
- PeerDAS; Danny; September 2023
- SubnetDAS; Francesco & Ansgar; October 2023
- ERC/EIP-4337; Vitalik et. al.; September 2021
- EIP-3074; Sam et. al.; October 2020
- ERC-4337 vs EIP-3074: False dichotomy; Yoav; December 2023
- EIP-4488; Vitalik & Ansgar; November 2021
- EIP-4444; George, Alex, Matt; November 2021
- Multiple Concurrent Leaders in Solana; Toly; 2023?
- Introducing Multiplicity; Duality Labs; March 2023
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november 2023
- Ethereum's Supply Chain, Part 1; 0x_emperor; September 2023- Eyes and Orders: On Crypto Front-ends; Trace; November 2023
- Ethereum’s Proposer-Builder Separation: Promises and Realities; Heimbach et. al.; September 2023
- Encrypted Mempools; Jon Charb; March 2023
- Everything you need to know about order flow auctions; Tuuka Tuomikoski, Carlos Monteiro; November 2023
- Builderelay; Quintus; November 2023
- Interview with jaredfromsubway; libevm; November 2023
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october 2023
- The Risks of LSD; Danny; May 2022- On the risks of LSD; Sacha; August 2023
- Should Lido on Ethereum be limited to some fixed % of stake?; lido forum; May 2022
- Do stakers represent users?; Hasu; May 2022
- MinRoot: Candidate Sequential Function; Dmitry, Mary, & Pratyush; November 2022
- Analysis of MinRoot; many authors; September 2023
- MEV-boost+/++: Liveness-first relay design; Kydo; August 2023
- Fun and games with inclusion lists; Barnabé; September 2023
- Cumulative, Non-Expiring Inclusion Lists; Toni; August 2023
- Censorship Resistance in On-Chain Auctions; Elijah, Mallesh, & Max; June 2023
- MEV burn –– a simple design; Justin; May 2023
- Rules and strategies of a protocol; Data Always; September 2023
- The centralizing effects of private order flow on PBS; Tivas, Mallesh, & Max; May 2023
- Endgame: Proof of Governance; Jon; August 2023
- Seeing like a protocol; Barnabé; April 2023
- Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things?; Vitalik; September 2023
- Lido on Ethereum. Withdrawals Landscape.; Lido Team; August 2023
- Protocol and staking pool changes that could improve decentralization and reduce consensus overhead; Vitalik; October 2023
- Minimum Viable Issuance; Anders; October 2023
- The Three Pillars of Programmable Trust: The EigenLayer End Game; Jessy; October 2023
- How (optional non-KYC) validator metadata can improve staking decentralization; ComfyGummy; October 2023
- Seeing like a protocol; Barnabé; April 2023
- On the unintended effects of MVI; Sacha; October 2023
- The Real Fork; Gwart; October 2023
- How (optional, non-KYC) validator metadata can improve staking decentralization; ComfyGummy; October 2023
- Staking on Ethereum: an analysis of options, the current market, and protocol and network risks; Izzy; May 2022
- The Pursuit of Relay Incentivization; Ballsyalchemist; October 2023
- Do Rollups Inherit Security?; Jon; October 2023
- Different types of layer 2s?; Vitalik; October 2023
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