Economic Censorship Games in Fraud Proofs,
with Ben Berger, Edward W. Felten, Benny Sudakov
ACM Conference of Economics and Computation, EC 2025
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My research focuses on mechanism design and optimization applied to decentralized systems, particularly blockchains.
Rollup Optimization
My primary research goal is to model, analyze, and optimize rollup protocol mechanics. Rollups help base-layer blockchains scale by improving transaction fees and speed. Designing efficient rollup technology, especially from an economic perspective, is a compelling research area.
Blockchain Governance
This field spans economics and political science. I study the players involved and how to design incentives and decision-making rules so participants contribute to the development of the underlying technology and ecosystem.
Decentralized Finance
I study automated market makers (AMMs) and their properties, including their economic mechanisms, efficiency, and impact on decentralized trading.
Conference Proceedings
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MEV Capture Through Time-Advantaged Arbitrage,
with Robin Fritsch, Maria Silva, Benjamin Livshits and Edward W. Felten
Mathematical Research of Blockchain Economics, MARBLE 2025 (Best Paper Award)
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BoLD: Fast and Cheap Dispute Resolution,
with Mario M Alvarez, Henry Arneson, Ben Berger, Lee Bousfield, Chris Buckland, Yafah Edelman, Edward W Felten, Daniel Goldman, Raul Jordan, Mahimna Kelkar, Harry Ng, Aman Sanghi, Victor Shoup, Terence Tsao
Advances in Financial Technologies, AFT 2024.
EIP-4844 Economics and Rollup Strategies,
with Davide Crapis and Edward W. Felten
Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts, Financial Cryptography, 2024
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Journal Articles
Do we need a (large) committee?,
with Hans Gersbach and Oriol Tejada
European Economic Review
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Direct or representative democracy? Co-Voting!,
with Hans Gersbach and Oriol Tejada
Mathematical Social Sciences
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Potential and Risks of Staking Pools on Blockchains,
with Hans Gersbach and Manvir Schneider
ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice
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Sequential Solutions in Machine Scheduling Games,
with Cong Chen, Paul Giessler, Matus Mihalak, Paolo Penna
Journal of Scheduling
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Podcasts and Talks
Economic Censorship Games in Fraud Proofs
EIP-4844 economics and rollup strategies
TimeBoost: Auctioning Time-Advantage in FCFS
Exploring the Arbitrum Ecosystem
Working Papers
TimeBoost: Do Ahead-of-Time Auctions Work?,
with Christoph Schlegel, Ko Sunghun, Jinsuk Park and Ali Taslimi
Submitted
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Timing Games: Probabilistic backrunning and spam,
with Bruno Mazorra and Christoph Schlegel
Submitted
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Searcher Competition in Block Building,
with Christoph Schlegel, Benny Sudakov and Danning Sui
Revise and Resubmit at ACM TWEB
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Axioms for constant function market makers,
with Christoph Schlegel and Mateusz Kwasnicki
Revise and Resubmit at Mathematical Finance
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