Flatcoins: The Stablecoins With Their Own Price

Explore flatcoins, an innovative alternative to stablecoins, using on-chain mechanisms to reduce volatility without relying on fiat currencies.

Can DeSci Save Science?

Exploring the promise and limits of DeSci in transforming scientific research.

Optimizing Ethereum Gas Efficiency With Multidimensional EIP-1559

Explore how multidimensional EIP-1559 optimizes Ethereum's gas efficiency by separating resource costs, enhancing scalability, and improving network utilization.

Neverending Options: Trading Options To Infinity And Beyond

Explore the evolution of crypto options and perpetual futures, including innovations like panoptions, and the challenges of liquidity and decentralization.

Futures of Ethereum II: Improving Censorship Resistance

This piece on the Futures of Ethereum explores its ongoing fight for censorship resistance, examining the impact of regulatory pressure, the role of Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS), and potential solutions like encrypted mempools to keep the network neutral and decentralized.

Charting Ethereum's Account Abstraction Roadmap II: EIP-7377 & EIP-5003

In part II of the account abstraction roadmap series, we discuss EOA migration: a controversial approach to bringing the benefits of smart, programmable accounts to users.

The Hitchhiker's Guide To Dark Pools In DeFi: Part Three

In this final part of our series on dark pools, we dive into Railgun—a privacy-enhancing, zk-powered protocol for anonymous, scalable, and auditable DeFi interactions—and explore what’s next for dark pools.

Defining Interest Rates for Stablecoins

In this article about stablecoins, we shed light on interest rates, a critical factor behind their stability. We explore governance-driven, algorithmic, and game-theoretic models for setting these rates, showing how issuers balance decentralization, risk, and market efficiency.

The Hitchhiker's Guide To Dark Pools In DeFi: Part Two

In part II of our three-part series on DeFi dark pools, we examine Tristero: a perfomant, privacy-focused DEX built using Trusted Execution Environment (TEEs).

The Hitchhiker's Guide To Dark Pools In DeFi: Part One

After reshaping TradFi, dark pools are making inroads into DeFi. We explore the fundamentals of dark pools and and the impact on DeFi markets in this article.

Starknet: Unlocking Better Performance With Cairo-Native Execution

Starknet's Cairo-native execution utilizes its custom programming language, Cairo, to boost scalability, cut costs, and improve smart contract performance.

Futures of Ethereum I: From Beacon Chain to Beam Chain

Building on Ethereum's 2024 developments, this article explores the Beam Chain proposal introduced by Justin Drake at Devcon, aiming to overhaul Ethereum's consensus layer by addressing MEV insights, leveraging SNARK advancements, and eliminating Beacon Chain's technical debt.