IMH(umble)O, the free-option problem should be seen as a P0 bug in our thinking about ePBS! 🪲🛑 without getting bogged down in the greeks, the intuition is simple: builders *will be* incentivized to intentionally miss slots – especially during periods of high volatility.

happy day after friday the 13th! excited to share "On the future of the blob mempool" with @_julianma @fradamt. reconciling how the consensus and execution clients handle blobs is a vital unresolved question for scaling ethereum data. this doc continues that conversation. 🔗↴

happy memorial day 🇺🇸 excited to share an article with @bahrani_maryam on anonymous participation. we characterize the equilibria of a simple lottery game before looking at how proof-of-work and prover markets could optimize for certain outcomes! see link + threads below ⤋

happy tax day 🪙🗓️ – to celebrate, here is a deep dive on blobs. we start by examining the L2 transaction lifecycle. this motivates a discussion on blob gossip and validation pre- and post-PeerDAS. we conclude by looking at possible mempool upgrades! link and thread below ↓↓

happy tax day 🪙🗓️ –– to celebrate, here is a deep dive on blobs. examining the L2 transaction lifecycle motivates a discussion on blob gossip and validation pre- and post-PeerDAS. we conclude by looking at possible mempool upgrades! read more here￬￬￬

happy april fools' day ⚜️ ~ to counter the fake news on your feed, @malleshpai, @mkalinin2, and i are sharing "Adding flexibility to Ethereum's exit queue," an article outlining and motivating our recent EIP to improve the efficiency of validator withdrawals.

happy st. paddy’s 🍀🪙 to celebrate, @malleshpai and i wrote, “ELI5: Ethereum Validator Exits.” this short doc explains how Ethereum Proof-of-Stake exits are implemented today before detailing which elements change in the upcoming Electra hardfork. ⤸⤸

happy last day of feb🗓️! thrilled to share a new paper – "Selfish mining under general stochastic rewards." i was very lucky to collab with @bahrani_maryam and Matt Weinberg and learned a ton about fundamental research! check out the preprint here ⇣📝

yesterday's optimistic relay outage caused some confusion around ePBS. these topics are near and dear to my heart, so i wanted to get this out ASAP to help demystify the situation. "Consider the ePBS" 🦞🤖🐮🐛💵 (you only really need to read the tldr)