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- Academic Presentations
    + Selfish mining under general stochastic rewards (October 2025)
        * Advances in Financial Technology (AFT) 2025
        * slides
    + Optimizing Exit Queues for Proof-of-Stake Blockchains (September 2024)
        * Advances in Financial Technology (AFT) 2024
        * slides
    + Low-cost attacks on Ethereum 2.0 by sub-1/3 stakeholders (December 2020)
        * Workshop on Game Theory in Blockchain, Conference on Web and Internet Economics (GTiB WINE) 2020
        * recording
    + Defending Against Malicious Reorgs in Tezos Proof-of-Stake (October 2020)
        * Advances in Financial Technology (AFT) 2020
        * recording
    + Selfish Behavior in the Tezos Proof-of-Stake Protocol (March 2020)
        * CryptoEconomic Systems (CES) 2020
        * recording
    + Detection of Local Mixing in Time Series using Permutation Entropy (April 2021)
        * European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) 2021
        * poster

- Misc. Blockchain Presentations
    + First Principles of Blockchains - World Bank: Metrics in Motion Session VI (November 2025)
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    + ETHCC[8] (July 2025)
        ~ Blob futures and the blob mempool - Blockspace Futures Day
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        ~ Blobs and the future of the blob mempool - ETHCC Main Event
            * recording
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    + Revisiting Ethereum's Exit Queue - Beam Chain Call #4 (April 2025)
        * recording
        * slides
    + Validator incentives and Ethereum protocol philosophy - Oxford-Harvard Conference on Decentralized Finance and Market Microstructure (January 2025)
        * slides
    + DEVCON 7 (November 2024)
        ~ ETH is permissionless money - DEVCON Mainstage
            * recording
            * slides
        ~ The ticker is ETH - Bankless Summit
            * recording
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    + Neutrality in Ethereum - Harvard Club of New York City (October 2024)
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    + Separating MEV and Staking Rewards - CBER Webinar (September 2024)
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    + More slides about Ethereum Blockspace - Scroll Protocol Symposium (August 2024)
        * recording
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    + More slides about PBS - MEV Workshop, Stanford Blockchain Conference (August 2024)
        * recording
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    + Postmodern Staking - IC3 Blockchain Camp (June 2024)
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    + Is restaking the new staking? - CBER Forum Annual Conference (May 2024)
        * recording
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    + State of the Ethereum Union ($1/N$ perspective) - ETHBoston (April 2024)
    + ETHDenver (March 2024)
        ~ Execution Tickets - Beyond the Block (Titan Builder & Hashkey Capital)
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        ~ The Risks of LRTs - Research Day (SevenX Ventures)
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    + No Free Lunch - Columbia CryptoEconomics Working Session (December 2023)
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    + Enshrining PBS - Center for Digital Finance & Technologies (December 2023)
        * slides
    + DevConnect (November 2023)
        ~ Increase the MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE - EthStaker Staking Gathering
            * recording
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        ~ A set theoretic view of Ethereum coteries - LidoConnect
            * recording
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    + Why it's hard to enshrine PBS - Archetype MEV Lunch (November 2023)
        * recording
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    + ETHCC[6] (July 2023)
        ~ Towards Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation - EthCC main event
            * recording
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        ~ Ethereum PBS R&D Roadmap - Modular Summit
            * recording
            * slides
        ~ Increase the MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE - Kiln Rendez-vous
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    + Reorgs in PoS - MEV Roast; Reorg Edition (August 2021)
        * recording
        * slides

- Podcasts
    + Pectra Explained - Coinbase Institutional Webinar. (April 2025)
        * recording
    + ETH is Permissionless Money - Cryptoria (December 2024)
        * English recording
        * Chinese translation
    + Ethereum's North Star - The Gwart Show (October 2024)
        * recording    
    + The Future of Ethereum: Is This The Right Track? - Bankless (October 2024)
        * recording    
    + The Ethereum Roadmap is NOT Off Track! - Bankless (September 2024)
        * recording
    + ETH Insights: Discussing MaxEB - Coinbase Webinar (April 2024)
        * recording
        * article
    + PeepAnEIP : EIP-7547 - Ethereum Cat Herders (April 2024)
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    + Endgame 2.0: A Guide to Vitalik's Ethereum Roadmap - Bankless (February 2024)
        * recording
    + We're Pretty Sure Mike and Max Can Fix MEV - The Gwart Show (February 2024)
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    + PeepAnEIP : EIP-7251 - Ethereum Cat Herders (February 2024)
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    + Eigenlayer In 2024 (co-host) - Bankless (December 2023)
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    + An Incomplete Guide to PBS - Uncommon Core 2 (September 2023)
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- Panels
    + Restaking Panel - Staking Summit, Staking Rewards (November 2024)
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    + Decentralization Panel - Espresson Beyond the Baselayer (March 2024)
        * recording
    + Decentralize or Bust - bloXroute & ETHStaker (March 2024)
        * recording
    + Alignment Panel - EignenLayer Restaking Summit (November 2023)
        * recording
    + PBS & Beyond - MEVDay Paris (July 2023)
        * recording