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TL;DR's Research Fellows tackle the most pressing problems in DeFi research. Congratulations to the 18 TLDR Fellows selected for the 2024-25 cohort! We all gathered to kick off the fellowship this weekend in NYC. Meet them in the thread below:
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TL;DR's Fellowship is designed to support the brightest engineers, students, & academics to innovate & implement DeFi research. 🥇
This year, we're thrilled to have received 107 applications. Out of those, we've selected 10 outstanding fellows.
Meet them in the thread below! 🧵
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🔬 Are you a researcher excited about DeFi? Our fellowship program is now open for applications! Grants are $10-50K, and you get to work with
@tarunchitra
@aklamun
@sarahalle_
@jason_of_cs
@sui414
@MatheusVXF
@theo_diamandis
@angeris_guille
👉Apply now: .
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📢 A big thanks to the 2024-2025 TLDR Research Council for volunteering their expertise to mentor fellows and advance DeFi research!
• Dan Robinson,
@danrobinson
(Paradigm)
• Danning Sui,
@sui414
(Flashbots)
• Guille Angeris,
@GuilleAngeris
(Bain Capital Crypto)
• John
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The TLDR Conference experience includes live art: Each speaker is sketched in real-time. 🧑🎨🎤
Check out some of the sketches from from today's sessions!
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Happy New Year. Tl;dr of TL;DR:
- 9 researchers formed the council
- Launched a fellowship program and selected 10 fellows
- 4 research dinners hosted
- DeFi Research Conference May 2024
Thanks to everyone who followed along or applied for the fellowship. More to come in 2024!
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The TLDR 2024 Program Schedule is now live!
🔹 Keynotes from Eric Budish & Alex Nezlobian
🔹 Sessions on Infrastructure, DEXs, Software, MEV & Block Building, Governance, DeFi Applications
🔹Presentations by TLDR Fellows
Explore the full agenda at:
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TLDR Conference is well underway. Impressed by all the early birds here on time! Going to be a great two days.
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🚨 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 🚨
The Latest in DeFi Research (TLDR) Conference in NYC brings academics, engineers & practitioners together to advance DeFi.
Conference Chairs:
@tarunchitra
@ciamac
Track Chairs:
@theo_diamandis
@xin__wan
@sarahalle_
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Cat's out of the bag. The TLDR Problem Spaces for 2024-2025 were announced this morning at the TLDR Conference in NYC. Think you're the right person to tackle one of these areas? Apply for our research fellowship.
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🚨 Calling all DeFi Researchers
In 6 days, applications will open for TLDR's inaugural conference on May 16-17 in NYC. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Infrastructure
- DeFi Applications
- Governance
Turn alerts on for
@thelatestindefi
to stay informed!
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Congratulations to
@theo_diamandis
on defending your thesis. We’re so lucky to have you on the council! ❤️🥳
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🚨9 days left to apply for the TLDR Fellowship!
In the lead up, we'll be sharing papers authored by this year's Research Council.
Today, we're covering 'An Analysis of Intent-Based Markets' [March 2024] by
@tarunchitra
@ks_kulk
@malleshpai
@theo_diamandis
.
Three items are behind a wall and a solver is going to get one of them for you
Do you get a goat or a car, anon?
@malleshpai
,
@ks_kulk
,
@theo_diamandis
and I show you that if solvers have to do more work to deliver the item to you, they're not going to show up to the auction
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Day 2 has commenced! We're excited for today's sessions: Software, MEV & Block Building, Governance and DeFi Applications.
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🗣️ Submissions for the 2024 TLDR Conference are due by TOMORROW, February 16th at 11:59 PM ET.
Conference Chairs:
@tarunchitra
@ciamac
Track Chairs:
@theo_diamandis
@xin__wan
@sarahalle_
Details & Call for Submissions:
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We loved getting the fellows and mentors together for dinner this week IRL!
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1/ As we countdown the days left til Wave 1 Fellowship Applications close August 15th, we’d like to highlight the research conducted related to the fellowship topics.
Let's start with Block Bidding Economics on MEV-boost.
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🚨 ICYMI: RFPs for the next cohort of the TLDR fellowship are open until June 6! Topics Include:
- Understanding Risk in Restaking
- Sybil Proofness and Collusion Resistance
- Pricing state growth
- Novel Designs for Decentralized Markets
- MEV-Resistant L2 Sequencers
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Cat's out of the bag. The TLDR Problem Spaces for 2024-2025 were announced this morning at the TLDR Conference in NYC. Think you're the right person to tackle one of these areas? Apply for our research fellowship.
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1/ Why is more research on pricing state growth important? Public blockchains that require network participants to store global state are faced with a daunting challenge: state growth. As these networks become more popular, the size of the state monotonically increases.
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9️⃣ Krane
@0xkrane
Krane, a former SWE/ML engineer at Google, dived into the crypto world in 2021 and quickly became an expert in Liquid Restaking.
TL;DR focus: Implementation of DeFi Mechanisms 🔧
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🧵/ As we countdown the days left until TLDR Conference submissions close on Feb 16th, we're shining a spotlight on research by our Conference Chairs & Program Committee.
Today's feature: 'The Specter (and Spectra) of Miner Extractable Value' from August 2023.
the paper is also now up on arXiv for all of your archiving needs !
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Wow! Tickets for the TLDR Conference on May 16-17 are now sold out due to high demand.
Thank you for your overwhelming interest. If you missed out this time, we hope to see you next year.
Stay tuned for recordings of the talks, and highlights from this year’s event.
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The first annual TLDR Conference at Columbia Business School was jam packed with new research. Here are the videos for your viewing pleasure.
A few highlights from day one include
@AgostinoCapponi
@MaxResnick1
@ericbudish
and more:
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🎉 Acceptance notifications are out!
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who submitted to the 2024 TLDR Conference. We're truly impressed by the quality of the submissions. Unfortunately, we could only accept 17%.
For conference attendance details, visit:
🚨 Calling all DeFi Researchers
In 6 days, applications will open for TLDR's inaugural conference on May 16-17 in NYC. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Infrastructure
- DeFi Applications
- Governance
Turn alerts on for
@thelatestindefi
to stay informed!
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TEN MORE DAYS until the 2024 TLDR Conference at Columbia Business School in NYC.
Explore the program schedule and apply for tickets here:
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7️⃣ Itamar Reif
@itamarreif
Itamar is a researcher and developer at Astria with expertise in mechanism design, incentive analysis, algorithmic game theory, programming languages, modular rollups and dynamical systems.
TL;DR focus: ZK Fee Mechanism Design 🛠️
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1/ In "Censorship Resistance in On-Chain Auctions"
@PossibltyResult
,
@malleshpai
, and
@MaxResnick1
describe how modern blockchains guarantee that submitted transactions will be included eventually; a property formally known as liveness.
Read:
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💜 8 days left to apply for the Fellowship! Until then, we're sharing papers by our Research Council.
Today, we're covering 'Dynamic Pricing for Non-Fungible Resources: Designing Multidimensional Blockchain Fee Markets' by
@theo_diamandis
@tarunchitra
@GuilleAngeris
@alexhevans
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Fellow:
@0xAlphaist
Council:
@ks_kulk
&
@sui414
Mentors:
@xin__wan
&
@BradBachu
Koshi is an undergrad at Keio and a researcher at Titania Research. Koshi will analyze the impact of the RFQ systems on the execution quality of DEXs.
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Fellow:
@BharathVedarth1
Council:
@jadler0
Bharath is an Engineer at
@AstriaOrg
. During the Fellowship, Bharath will implement a physically-delivered blockspace futures protocol.
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@Miaogik
@PGarimidi
@n_durvasula
Fellow:
@MihaLotric
Council:
@ks_kulk
,
@sui414
Miha is MEV RnD Engineer at
@EdenNetwork
. During the fellowship, he will quantify the upper threshold of CoWs and/or evaluate price improvements from leveraging cross-domain liquidity in DeFi. His research will deliver data-driven
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8️⃣ Lily Johnson
@lilyaudits
Lily is an EVM auditor, security researcher & developer with expertise in on-chain protocol hacking. Lily is interested in empowering the base crypto user.
TL;DR focus: Implementation of DeFi Mechanisms 🔧
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Fellow:
@ballsyalchemist
Council:
@sui414
@ks_kulk
Yuki conducts research
@SorellaLabs
and
@fenbushi
. Throughout the Fellowship, he will provide an objective view of the existing execution welfare of trades across various solver-based protocols.
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TLDR Research Fellowship Applications close tonight at midnight - thank you for taking time to submit a proposal, we are excited to review them all over the next few weeks. We will be notifying everyone by July 9 and Kick off is August 9th.
Apply:
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1️⃣ Yotam Gafni
@Suflaky
Yotam Gafni is a recent Ph.D. grad from Technion, Israel with specializations in game theory & mechanism design. Now at SLMath Berkeley, he dives into auctions, strategic ML, and fair decisions.
TL;DR focus: Improved MEV Auctions ⚙️
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🚨 2 more days to apply for the TLDR Conference! During the countdown, we're spotlighting research by our Chairs & Program Committee:
'Automated Market Making and Arbitrage Profits in the Presence of Fees' by
@ciamac
(Chair),
@Tim_Roughgarden
(PC) and
@jason_of_cs
(PC).
1/ New paper “Automated Market Making and Arbitrage Profits in the Presence of Fees” by
@jason_of_cs
@ciamac
@Tim_Roughgarden
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Our first cohort of fellows gathered this week in Curacao for an offsite. If you're at
@IFCA_Conference
#FC24
we are hosting an open happy hour tonight - come hang!
Here's a peak inside what its like to build a new research program ground up:
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Us reviewing your proposals this week. Thank you for taking time to apply!
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2️⃣ Mohammadreza Ahmadnejadsaein
Mohammadreza, Ph.D candidate at Cornell, merges electrical engineering & finance expertise. With a deep dive into DeFi since 2017, he's now focused on blockchain governance and financial networks.
Focus: Governance Decentralization Game Theory 🗳️
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5️⃣
@boez95
Burak is a Ph.D. candidate at TUM researching the impact of MEV on economics, consensus stability, incentives and participant behavior.
TL;DR focus: Block Bidding Economics on MEV-boost 📊
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🧵 Just 11 days left to submit your work for TLDR's Conference! In the lead-up, we're shining a light on the pivotal research conducted by our Program Committee members & mentors.
Today's feature:
'Censorship Resistance in On-Chain Auctions' by
@MaxResnick1
@malleshpai
&
@eljhfx
New paper alert🚨 🧵
@malleshpai
,
@eljhfx
, and I investigate "Censorship Resistance in On-Chain Auctions"
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Exciting news for TL;DR fellows!
We distributed NFTs to the first cohort of fellows to commemorate their contributions to DeFi research. Each piece is a testament to the cutting-edge work being done at TL;DR.
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4️⃣ Ruizhe Ja
Ruizhe, a 5th-year Ph.D. student at Columbia is working on quantifying builder/searcher/relay centralization risk in MEV, mechanism design algorithms, AMM algorithms and liquidity provisions.
TL;DR focus: Block Bidding Economics on MEV-boost 📊
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Are you good at distilling technical research down to the main points? TLDR is looking for a PT Writer in Residence to help us amplify the research from fellows, the council and broader DeFi market.
Learn more and apply:
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Next up in the countdown to TLDR Conference submissions closing on February 16, we're diving into a paper authored by three of our Program Committee members:
'Centralization in Block Building and Proposer-Builder Separation' by
@PGarimidi
,
@bahrani_maryam
and
@Tim_Roughgarden
.
Proposer-builder separation (PBS) plays a major role in Ethereum's current block-building process. But is PBS a good design? Is it really necessary? A new paper with
@bahrani_maryam
@Tim_Roughgarden
develops the theory necessary for reasoning rigorously about these questions
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Fellow:
@William33203632
Council:
@malleshpai
@sui414
Fei is a CS PhD at King’s College London. He will analyze builders' motivations behind overpayment in MEV-Boost auctions using empirical data, thus illuminating builders' true profitability in the block production process.
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3️⃣ Andrés Fabrega
Andrés is Chief Scientist at Chainlink Labs, and a 2nd-year PhD student at Cornell. He specializes in computer security & applied cryptography. He has contributed to a myriad of DeFi research in the past.
TL;DR focus: Governance Decentralization Game Theory 🗳️
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1/ There are three key problems with DAOs: the distribution of voting tokens, the lack of active participation in voting by a decentralized set of stakeholders, and incentive alignment between governance participants and the rest of the stakeholders or system participants.
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■ MEV & Block Building
'Block Building Economics' presented by Ruizhe Jia,
@RuizheJia
'I See You! Robust Measurement of Adversarial Behavior' presented by Matheus Xavier Ferreira,
@MatheusVXF
'Who Wins Ethereum Block Building Auctions and Why?' presented by Burak Oz
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Fellow:
@spilehchiha
Council: Akis Kattis
Sina is a security engineer at
@Scroll_ZKP
. During his fellowship, he will focus on transaction fee mechanism design on ZK-rollups.
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🔟 Kaihua Qin
@KaihuaQIN
Kaihua is a final-year PhD candidate at Imperial College London specializing in blockchain, DeFi, and smart contract security. Beyond academia, Kaihua has held roles at Chainlink Labs and Cisco.
TL;DR focus: Implementation of DeFi Mechanisms 🔧
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🧵/ TEN days left until TLDR Conference submissions close! During the run-up, we're spotlighting research by our Conference Chairs & Program Committee.
Today's feature: 'Optimal Dynamic Fees for Blockchain Resources' by
@ciamac
(Chair),
@DavideCrapis
(PC) and
@Qiaoqiao2001
.
🚀 Optimal Dynamic Fees for Blockchain Resources: Introducing a new framework for designing dynamic fee mechanisms for multiple network resources. (Codename: Endgame 1559)
Joint work with
@ciamac
and
@Qiaoqiao2001
from the DRO division at Columbia GSB.
TL;DR & link in 🧵👇
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‼️ 10 days left to apply for the TLDR Fellowship!
In the countdown, we'll be summarizing research papers authored by our Research Council.
Today, we're starting with "Convex Network Flows" [March 2024] by
@GuilleAngeris
,
@theo_diamandis
and Alan Edelman.
🚨 ICYMI: RFPs for the next cohort of the TLDR fellowship are open until June 6! Topics Include:
- Understanding Risk in Restaking
- Sybil Proofness and Collusion Resistance
- Pricing state growth
- Novel Designs for Decentralized Markets
- MEV-Resistant L2 Sequencers
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Fellow:
@awmacp
Council:
@jadler0
Andrew has a PhD from
@imperialcollegelondon
and is the founder of Shtuka Research. During the Fellowship, Andrew will focus on how to adapt (or design from scratch) a blockchain that supports blockspace futures as a feature.
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🧵 3 days left to submit to the TLDR Conference! During the countdown, we're spotlighting research by our Chairs & Program Committee:
'The Geometry of Constant Function Market Makers' by
@tarunchitra
(Chair),
@theo_diamandis
(Chair),
@GuilleAngeris
(PC),
@ks_kulk
&
@alexhevans
.
New paper with
@theo_diamandis
,
@tarunchitra
,
@ks_kulk
, and
@alexhevans
on the geometry of constant function market makers is (finally) out! It’s even got pretty pictures and everything!
Check it out at:
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ICYMI 🔈
Submissions are open for the first inaugural TLDR Conference. Topics of interest include: Infrastructure, DeFi Applications and Governance.
🚨 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 🚨
The Latest in DeFi Research (TLDR) Conference in NYC brings academics, engineers & practitioners together to advance DeFi.
Conference Chairs:
@tarunchitra
@ciamac
Track Chairs:
@theo_diamandis
@xin__wan
@sarahalle_
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Fellow:
@ChristofTorres
Council:
@malleshpai
@sui414
Mentor:
@benafisch
Christof is an Assistant Professor at University of Lisbon. Christof seeks to better understand how MEV can be extracted in the context of shared sequencing and how profitable it is compared to single chain
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6️⃣ Ghada Almashaqbeh
Ghada is an Asst. Professor at the University of Connecticut researching cryptography, privacy, and systems security with a large focus on blockchain. She cofounded CacheCash, and was a cryptographer at NuCypher.
TL;DR focus: Pricing State Growth 📈
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🔵 DeFi Applications Track (Chair:
@xin__wan
)
Potential topics:
- Automated market maker design.
- Liquidity provision in decentralized exchanges.
- Lending & perpetual protocols.
- Staking protocols.
- Empirical analyses of protocols.
- Implementations of DeFi mechanisms.
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Special thanks to
@uniswapFND
for committing up to $3,000,000 over 3 years to TL;DR to bolster DeFi research with fellowships, conferences, and guidance from industry experts. 🤝
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Fellow:
@Mengqian__
Council:
@MatheusVXF
Mengqian is a Postdoc at Yale Computer Science. She will be researching novel designs for decentralized markets. Specifically, she'll explore novel AMM designs to improve trading efficiency and mitigate the potential MEV issues therein.
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Fellow:
@Amd_10910
Council:
@GuilleAngeris
Adam is a Master’s Student in Applied Mathematics with a focus on Machine Learning at ETH Zurich. During his Fellowship, he will publish a validated theoretical framework that could be used to guide the development of Dynamic CFMMs.
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🚨 Submissions for The Latest in DeFi Research (TLDR) Conference close February 16.
Don't miss your chance to showcase your work to the world's leading DeFi experts!
🔗Details & how to submit:
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Fellow:
@0xfuturistic
Council:
@danrobinson
Diego is a protocol engineer at
@OPLabsPBC
. He and Alex will be designing a MEV-resistant solution for L2s that significantly hardens the sequencer by enabling censorship-resistance and releasing a prototype using the OP Stack.
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Massive thank you to
@UniswapFND
for believing in this program and sponsoring the fellowships.
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Congratulations to these fellows! We're excited to support you in your research. Your contributions will reshape and elevate the DeFi industry.
Interested in next year's cohort? Check out our website for more details on this program:
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🛠️ Infrastructure Track (Chair:
@theo_diamandis
)
Potential topics:
- Interactions between applications & consensus.
- Economics of cross-chain and rollup interoperability.
- Transaction fee markets.
- Intent-based architectures.
- Block building & associated mechanism design.
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🚨 7 days left to apply for the TLDR Fellowship!
In the countdown, we'll be discussing papers co-authored by our Research Council.
Today, we're covering 'am-AMM: An Auction-Managed Automated Market Maker' by
@danrobinson
,
@ciamac
,
@saraareynolds
,
@AustinAdams10
.
Introducing the auction-managed AMM!
A new AMM design that:
⚖️ Reduces LVR
⚙️ Optimizes swap fees
📈 Smooths LP returns
🌊 Should attract higher liquidity than any fixed-fee AMM
New paper with
@ciamac
(
@paradigm
/
@Columbia_Biz
) and
@AustinAdams10
@saraareynolds
(
@Uniswap
)
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Fellow:
@MicheleFabi90
Council:
@MatheusVXF
Michele is an Assistant Professor at Telecom Paris, CREST, IP Paris. During the Fellowship he'll design an Automated Market Maker for Decentralized Energy Trading.
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Fellow: Benjamin Kraner
Council:
@tarunchitra
Benjamin is a PhD student at the UZH Blockchain Center. He will be extending a restaking model to include stochastic rewards, analyzing equilibrium conditions for intersubjective forks, incorporating future rewards into current
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Applications close for the first wave. Here are a few answers to common qs:
- Part time, not FT
- Remote
- Fellowships start in October
- PhDs can get help with a work authorization letter if needed
- If you're not ready, you can apply for the next wave of fellows this fall!
1/4 I'm excited to be a part of the program because 1) many programs require applicants to be phds. We want to uncover talented researchers that would otherwise be overlooked.
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Fellow:
@o_herminator
Council:
@danrobinson
Mentor:
@ciamac
Alex is an independent researcher focused on advancing DEFI. He and Diego will be designing a MEV-resistant solution for L2s that significantly hardens the sequencer by enabling censorship-resistance and releasing a
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3/ "Governance Decentralization Game Theory" requests proposals for research to examine voting rules, token distributions, and game-theoretic mechanisms to provide actionable insights and guidance for the future operation of DAOs.
Apply:
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🚨 4 days left to apply for the TLDR Fellowship!
In the countdown, we'll be discussing papers authored by our Research Council.
Today, we're summarizing 'Credible Decentralized Exchange Design via Verifiable Sequencing Rules' [2023] by
@MatheusVXF
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This was a thoughtful gift we gave to the council members earlier this year as a thank you for their contribution. It featured a research paper from every member. Can't wait for edition
#2
next year!
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TLDR fellows think out of the box
DeFi researchers (
@xin__wan
) arguing on imaginary Binance price on imaginary whiteboard in Cafe 🤣🤣🤣
sketching out the
@thelatestindefi
paper with our grant fellow!
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Fellow:
@Miaogik
Council:
@PGarimidi
Mentor:
@n_durvasula
Yiyun is an Econ PhD at École Polytechnique/ENSAE. By modeling the initial token allocation process as an effort-eliciting contest, Yiyun conjectures the Sybil risks of such token launches from the value distribution
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Fellow:
@schaliasosvons
Council: Akis Kattis
Stefanos is a PhD student at Imperial College London and is a Security Researcher at zkSecurity. He will focus on three things: 1) Formalization of Existing ZKP Rollup Auction Mechanisms 2) Identification of Economic DDoS Attack
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5/ Let us not forget "Dynamic Pricing for Non-fungible Resources" by
@GuilleAngeris
@theo_diamandis
@tarunchitra
@alexhevans
If you are selected to be a fellow, you will work with a few of these researchers directly! Applications close end of the 15th!
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2/ As the size of the chain’s state increases, this process becomes increasingly difficult, potentially outpacing validators’ limited hardware resources. We write more about why it matters in this RFP, which we are looking to hire a fellow to focus on.
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3/ We highlight this essay in "further reading" for the "Improving MEV auctions" RFP scoped by
@tarunchitra
, which emphasizes the need to ensure censorship resistance, incentive compatibility, and user preference enforcement in MEV auctions. Learn more:
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3/ To get deeper into this topic we invite you to read Time is Money: Strategic Timing Games in Proof-of-Stake by
@jenjpan
@theshah39
@barnabemonnot
@casparschwa
@CBER_Forum
@soispoke
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2/
@glxyresearch
&
@aklamun
coined the term Governance Extractable Value (GEV), which refers to the problem that governance can extract value at the expense of the system. Read their fantastic blog post:
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6 days left to apply for the TLDR Fellowship!
In the countdown, we'll be summarizing papers authored by our Research Council. Today, we're covering 'Building Scalable Decentralized Payment Systems' [2020] by
@jadler0
(TLDR Council) and
@badcryptobitch
.
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📆 Important Dates:
- Submissions Due: Feb 16
- Acceptance Notification: March 15
- Conference Dates: May 16-17
📚 Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Infrastructure
- DeFi Applications
- Governance
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@Tim_Roughgarden
"Transaction Fee Mechanism Design for the Ethereum Blockchain" provides a more in depth study.
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Fellow:
@marcofrancisc
Council:
@tarunchitra
Marco will investigate how strategic interactions of node operators and services affect the security of restaking protocols building on previous work by
@tarunchitra
@malleshpai
@naveend
@n_durvasula
@Tim_Roughgarden
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2/ But, financial activity requires transactions to be included in a timely manner. Unfortunately, classical liveness is not strong enough to guarantee this, particularly in the presence of a motivated adversary who benefits from censoring transactions.
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⚖️ Governance Track (Chair:
@sarahalle_
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Potential topics:
- Voting mechanisms.
- Analysis of DAOs.
- Incentives in decentralized governance.
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TLDR is non-archival and does not have proceedings. You are welcome to submit work that has been published or submitted elsewhere.
View full conference details and call for submissions here: .
We look forward to your submissions!
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We've minted 128 NFTs, which means that future fellows have something to look forward to! Explore our entire NFT collection by clicking here:
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2/ This RFP addresses concerns about the centralization of block production on Ethereum, particularly by top builders who have proprietary information and competitive advantages.
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Fellow:
@0xBrMazoRoig
Council:
@PGarimidi
Mentor:
@n_durvasula
Bruno is a PHD Student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona. He will explore how requiring sybil-proofness and collusion-resistance influences the set of mechanisms we can use and the set of problems we can
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5 days left to apply for the TLDR Fellowship!
Until submissions close, we'll be summarizing papers by our Research Council. Today, we're covering "Transaction Fee Mechanism Design in a Post-MEV World" [Feb 2024] by
@PGarimidi
(Council),
@Tim_Roughgarden
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@bahrani_maryam
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5/ How do you think this previous research can be considered and built on in the upcoming RFP?
ty
@sui414
who wrote this RFP 😄
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4/ Understanding the cost of MEV is crucial for designing protocols that are fair, efficient and resilient. This paper equips protocol designers with the tools to analyze MEV in a theoretical manner, bypassing the need for specific, concrete examples or implementations.
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5/ Explore the full paper:
And don't miss your chance to engage with some of the minds behind this pivotal research by applying for the TLDR Conference! View conference details & call for submissions:
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