This analysis provides a summary of the research paper Atomic Execution is Not Enough for Arbitrage Profit Extraction in Shared Sequencers , where we study the impact of shared sequencing for cross-rollup arbitrage profits. In particular, we focus on atomic execution and derive the conditions in which atomicity is profitable for arbitrageurs. This highlights that profits do not always improve under atomic execution, and thus, this feature alone is not enough to convince both arbitrageurs and rollup operators to switch to a shared sequencing regime.

This post explores how to design an incentives program for Lido. Concretely, it focuses on a liquidity mining program to increase trading volumes of Lido’s liquid tokens, stETH and wstETH. We start by providing an overview of Lido. Then we discuss previous attempts at liquidity mining programs. And finally, we explore a framework to test and deploy such a program for Lido.

In this blog post, we discuss a key problem within the Ethereum ecosystem - gas cost management. To tackle this, we focus on gas reservation schemes (i.e. schemes that allow block producers and users to commit to a certain gas allocation at a predefined price before knowing the contents of the transaction) and their applicability for Ethereum rollups.

This block post discusses the Qredo Network, a decentralized custody platform. They recently underwent significant tokenomics overhaul and, in this post, I’ll dive deep into the changes, the reasons behind them, and the technical methodologies employed.

In this blog post, I discuss an empirical analysis of gas fees and consumption pre-FVM (Filecoin Virtual Machine) for the Filecoin network. The goal was to investigate the statistical properties of gas consumption in the Filecoin network and extract insights about how best to model it.

In decentralized projects, it is common to question given protocol change may impact the underlying economic systems that support it. This is where scenario-based models can be incredibly valuable. By creating models based on hypothetical scenarios, we can gain insight into how changes in key economic parameters and user behaviors might impact metrics like its circulating supply. This blog post illustrates this point by presenting a scenario-based model built for the Filecoin economy

In this blog post, I discuss a mechanism design project we did for the Saturn Network, a project started by Protocol Labs to bring fast and reliable access to content stored on Filecoin and IPFS. In particular, I explain how we defined the incentives for the network and how we built the Treasury module of Saturn (which is responsible for allocating rewards to network participants).