ranking the reasons to do multiple proposers in order of how compelling they are 4. censorship resistance for OFAC txs 3. improving tx latency by distributing leaders more widely around the globe 2. censorship resistance for auctions 1. enforcing priority ordering

😲 24h volume: $1.4b across all markets Still unincentivized, still on-chain, still powered by sophisticated, profit-seeking market makers competing to provide the best price to users. And still a long way to go.

Excited to announce our $8.7M total raise to build Duper. Duper is where Poker meets Catan, with a twist of Diplomacy. Season 1 begins today. Massive rewards ready. All details below.

Can we leverage the zero-knowledge properties of ZK blockchains and efficiency of server-side proving without compromising the security of private data? ZK meets TEEs in this walkthrough with Aztec's proving backend-agnostic programming language Noir. 🧵👇

After 33 years, we can more fully appreciate how arXiv.org has transformed science. Thank you, Paul.

On Script Upgrades & OP_CAT You may have seen recent momentum for a Bitcoin improvement proposal to add OP_CAT (the opcode for concatenation). When I first started writing this, I wanted to simply answer: What is the big deal with adding concatenation to Bitcoin? As it turns

This is the first in a series of posts we'll be doing on bedlam research where we talk about Bitcoin, its future upgrades and how it all relates to the wider theme of compute systems in crypto moving off-chain. Script upgrades like OP_CAT that enable covenants are paramount to a

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Renegade, the first on-chain dark pool, is live on Arbitrum. Fully-private trading with zero MEV, slippage, or price impact. Dark pools account for nearly half of the TradFi market, and Renegade unlocks dark pools for DeFi — renegade.fi Here's how Renegade works 🧵

Since D didn't enjoy us writing about infra semantics we switched it up and wrote some thoughts on lending markets and DeFi. As fast chains with low transaction fees like Solana, Monad ⨀ and MegaETH become commonplace, we can start to rethink DeFi

Introducing Atlas, the blockchain for verifiable finance. Verifiable finance combines the performance of traditional finance with the transparency of DeFi. The Atlas private testnet is live today! Apply for access below.

Finance is the killer application for crypto yet most domains (L1s or L2s) don't do enough to make finance a first-class citizen. The Ellipsis Labs team built one of the first sustainable onchain primitives in Phoenix 🔥🦅. I see their second product, Atlas as a continuation

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Rollup fork-choice rules are poorly explored. In this article, we examine what it means for a rollup to "fork", and how rollups can reorg without their DA layer. Rollups can use this for enshrined app logic. Click through for more, TL;DR below: blog.init4.technology/p/rebased-roll…