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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Verge: Making Ethereum Verifiable And Sustainable

Explore how "The Verge," a pivotal Ethereum upgrade, leverages Verkle trees to enhance verifiability and sustainability. This article breaks down its role in reducing storage needs and driving network scalability.

ERC-7683: Unifying Ethereum With Cross-Chain Intents

This article explores ERC-7683, a standard for crosschain intents that enables seamless multichain transactions, improves liquidity flow, and fosters interoperability through shared infrastructure and industry collaboration.

The Practical Guide to Ethereum Rollups

An extensive exploration of Ethereum rollups, how they work, and how we can enhance their security properties.

Unpacking The Starknet Bolt Upgrade

A comprehensive overview of Starknet’s 'Bolt' upgrade, which introduces parallel execution and block packing for improved performance. Learn how these changes boost scalability by reducing confirmation times and lowering costs.

Block-STM vs. Sealevel: A Comparison of Parallel Execution Engines

Analysis of functional parallelization in blockchain execution.

EIP-7685: General Purpose Execution Layer Requests

EIP-7685 introduces a framework for Ethereum's execution layer to handle general-purpose contract-triggered requests. The article explores how the proposal enhances interaction between the execution and consensus layers, enabling more versatile operations.

Harnessing Shared Security For Secure Cross-Chain Interoperability: Lagrange State Committees And Beyond

A deep dive on shared security and the role of shared security infrastructure in building robust and secure cross-chain interoperability solutions.

The State of Rollup Interoperability Solutions in 2024

How can we fix L2 fragmentation and save Ethereum's rollup-centric roadmap?

EIP-7657: Securing Ethereum's Sync Committee

EIP-7657 introduces a slashing condition for malicious sync committee messages to improve the security and reliability of light clients on the Ethereum network.

ERC-5564 & ERC-6358: Unlocking Privacy on Ethereum with Stealth Addresses

This article explores the inner workings of ERC-5564 and ERC-6358, revealing how stealth addresses enhance privacy on Ethereum. Learn how these proposals enable secure, unlinkable transactions without changing the core protocol.

EIP-6110: Fixing Beacon Chain Tech Debt

EIP-6110 deprecates the Eth1-Eth2 bridge and reforms the Beacon Chain's validator deposit processing mechanism for better staking UX and improved network security.

EIP-7251: Raising Maximum Effective Balance For Validators

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

EIP-7002: Unpacking Improvements to Staking UX Post-Merge

EIP-7002 brings Ethereum closer to the goal of simple, secure, and trustless staking.

Data Availability Or: How Rollups Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Ethereum

To be (fully) secured by Ethereum or not, that is the question.

Verkle Trees For The Rest Of Us: Part 1

An ELI5-style article series on Ethereum’s next major upgrade: The Verge.

ERC-7512: Bolstering Smart Contract Security With On-chain Audits

"Decentralize X and put it on the blockchain" has never sounded so good.