Over the past several years, the crypto markets have grown significantly. Most of the world has attributed this rise in price as a…

A risk assessment by a DeFi security dude. Note: I worked as a security auditor and engineer in the blockchain space for three years and…

Greater variance in validator income raises important questions about the dynamics of staking on Ethereum under PoS.

Also called “miner” extractable value, MEV is crypto’s version of Wall Street front-running.

Eric Rosengren included the stablecoin among what he termed new disruptors to short-term credit markets.

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There’s been some back-and-forth recently about the problem of front-running in Ethereum dapps, and what can be done about it. As I wrote…

tl;dr: Miner Extractable Value Auction makes centralization worse, not better.

Front-running is a persistent problem in blockchain-based markets. Someone, typically a miner, can look at the transactions we all submit…

The Ethereum community debate about miner-extractable value and transaction ordering has been heating up again, thanks to a recent post by…

Exploring whether or not value accrual mechanisms in DeFi tokens are important

By Kevin Hu and Celia Wan

Diving into the Compound protocol and the COMP token

Using annualized earnings to value the most used DeFi tokens & protocols