DeFi
A Complete Guide to Uniswap V4
Discover Uniswap V4's innovations like Singleton Architecture, Flash Accounting, and Hooks. Learn how they enhance efficiency, scalability, and user experience.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
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.
Zero-Knowledge
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.
Infrastructure
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.
DeFi
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.
Zero-Knowledge
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).
Zero-Knowledge
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.
Scaling
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.
Zero-Knowledge
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.
Interoperability
Nuffle: Ethereum's Finality-As-A-Service Layer
The article explores NFFL, a fast cross-rollup state verification protocol using EigenLayer’s restaked ETH and NEAR DA, enabling secure, efficient, and scalable cross-chain applications with fast finality.
Layer 2
How To Make Cross-Chain Tokens Fungible Again: Part I
This two-part report explores ERC-7281: a new proposal to make cross-chain tokens fungible. Part 1 introduces the problem (non-fungibility of bridged tokens) and analyzes current solutions.
Interoperability
Chain Abstraction: Orchestrating Towards the New Internet's Composability
The article explores blockchain fragmentation issues and introduces chain abstraction as a solution to unify state, liquidity, and assets across multiple chains. It highlights Socket protocol's role in enabling seamless user experiences and multichain composability for dApps and developers.