Cosmos without Tendermint: Exploring Narwhal and Bullshark

As more and more blockchain systems get deployed to production, two problems are frequently encountered: Achieving consensus with high throughput and low latency Building a distributed application on top of that consensus One [→]

Understanding Blockchain Latency and Throughput

How to properly measure a (blockchain) system is one of the least talked about but most significant steps in its design and evaluation. There are numerous consensus protocols and variations [→]

by Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias on Jul 11, 2022

The Dominance of Uniswap v3 Liquidity

New research published today shows that Uniswap Protocol v3 has deeper liquidity in ETH/USD, ETH/BTC and other ETH pairs than leading centralized exchanges. This research demonstrates that AMM market structure [→]

Hardware Acceleration for Zero Knowledge Proofs

Introduction Zero Knowledge cryptography is one of the most notable innovations in the last fifty years of computer science. Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) offer unique properties that make them essential components [→]

Announcing Foundry v0.2.0

What is Foundry? Foundry is a portable, fast, and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development, written in Rust. Our goal with Foundry is to create the best developer experience for building [→]

Introducing the Foundry Ethereum development toolbox

I am excited to announce a project we have been developing for the last few months: Foundry. Foundry is a portable, fast and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development. Why Foundry? You should [→]

Hiding in Plain Sight

I like challenging assumptions. I like trying to do the impossible, finding what others have missed, and blowing people's minds with things they never saw coming. Last year, I wrote a [→]

A Guide to Designing Effective NFT Launches

Blockchains revolutionized fundraising for open-source software, but not everything worked right from the start. In fact, ICOs of the 2016-2018 era were often horribly broken mechanisms that allowed founders to [→]