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2026
→ ePBS, distilled.
→ Proprietary AMMs and Ethereum
→ A native zkEVM scales bandwidth, not just execution
→ Capacity oracles
→ Application-controlled execution: A case study on cancel prioritization
2025
→ Decouple ExecutionPayload validity from Data Availability
→ Overnight reverse repurchases and the Feds' balance sheet
→ On Ethereum Prover Market Design
→ On the future of the blob mempool
→ On incentivizing anonymous participation
→ Blob gossip and validation before and after PeerDAS
→ EIP-7922: Dynamic exit queue rate limit
→ Adding flexibility to Ethereum's exit queue
→ ELI5: Ethereum Validator Exits
2024
→ My (e)thesis: settlement, data availability, execution — in that order.
→ Mechan-stein
→ On block-space distribution mechanisms
→ Issuance Issues – Tertiary Treatise
→ Issuance Issues – Subsequent Soliloquy
→ Issuance Issues – Initial Issue
→ The Case for ILECTRA
→ Inclusion Lists PoC Specification
→ The risks of LRTs
→ Concurrent Block Proposers in Ethereum
→ Rollup-Centric Roadmap (2024 version) (mike+stokes version) (From The Vault)
→ Consider the ePBS
→ Inclusion lists: execution, consensus, & engine spec overview
→ Unconditional inclusion lists
→ Validator consolidation in EIP-7251
2023
→ Execution tickets
→ The persistence of timing games
→ Dr. changestuff or: how i learned to stop worrying and love mev-burn
→ On 0x3d84a438af72f6396785eea97b32f903520e36c8
→ A set-theoretic view of Ethereum coteries
→ Magnitude and direction of Lido attack vectors
→ Resistance is ~not futile; CR in mev-boost~
→ EIP-7547: Inclusion lists
→ solo-staking rig
→ ePBS – the infinite buffet
→ Can we find Goldilocks? Musings on “two-tiered” staking, a native Liquid Staking Token design.
→ Slashing penalty analysis; EIP-7251
→ No free lunch – a new inclusion list design
→ Relays in a post-ePBS world
→ FAQ on EIP-7251; Increasing the MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE
→ Payload-timeliness committee (PTC) – an ePBS design
→ EIP-7251: Increase the MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE
→ Increase the MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE – a modest proposal
→ Why enshrine Proposer-Builder Separation? A viable path to ePBS
→ Bid cancellations considered harmful
→ Time, slots, and the ordering of events in Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
→ Optimistic relays and where to find them
→ Equivocation attacks in mev-boost and ePBS
→ An optimistic weekend
→ Towards enshrined PBS — an optimistic roadmap
→ Optimistic Relay Proposal
2020
→ Implementing Mixed-Precision Iterative Refinement in STRUMPACK