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Published in Offchain Labs

·Jun 30, 2022

Understanding Arbitrum: 2-Dimensional Fees

During last week’s Arbitrum Odyssey, Arbitrum One experienced record levels of traffic. Some discerning users noticed something curious: as the price of L2 gas increased, the amount of L2 gas that a given transaction would use would actually decrease. This, it turns out, is the system working as it’s supposed…

Ethereum

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Understanding Arbitrum: 2-Dimensional Fees
Understanding Arbitrum: 2-Dimensional Fees
Ethereum

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Apr 14, 2021

Remembering Jordan Mermell

I can clearly recall Jordan once saying this to me: “It’s good for both of us that we’re friends. See, because being with you makes me seem smart, and being with me makes you seem cool.” It’s quite a thing for anyone to say out loud, let alone a 2nd-grader…

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Published in Offchain Labs

·Jun 22, 2020

How to — And How Not To — Use Data Availability Committees

By Steven Goldfeder & Daniel Goldman One of the biggest challenges in the design space of scalable blockchain systems is the need to guarantee data availability. If some actor can advance the state of the system and publish the resulting state hash but withhold the underlying transaction data, then this…

Ethereum

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How to — And How Not To — Use Data Availability Committees
How to — And How Not To — Use Data Availability Committees
Ethereum

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Published in Offchain Labs

·Apr 24, 2020

When DeFi Meets Rollup (Bankless Newsletter)

When DeFi Meets Rollup (Bankless Newsletter) Ryan Sean Adams asked us this simple question: “Can we just put all of DeFi in a rollup?” Answering this involved delving into two questions that have been on our minds as we gear towards the release of a testnet demo: the user experience of using rollup applications (as compared to regular layer 1 dApps), and rollup interoperability with other chains. We go into it here in this post for the Bankless newsletter:

Ethereum

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When DeFi Meets Rollup (Bankless Newsletter)
When DeFi Meets Rollup (Bankless Newsletter)
Ethereum

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Published in 👹 MolochDAO

·Feb 20, 2020

The State of Optimistic Rollup

A technical overview of Ethereum’s emergent Optimistic Rollup ecosystem The following report was commissioned by MolochDAO. Input/review was provided by John Adler, as well as a number of others; however, all opinions expressed here, subtextual or otherwise, represent my own. Additionally, the assessment of projects should be taken as a…

Ethereum

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The State of Optimistic Rollup
The State of Optimistic Rollup
Ethereum

26 min read


Published in The Abacus Crypto Journal

·Jan 20, 2020

How Not To Critique Ethereum

A Handy Guide For Bitcoiners Tensions between the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities have steadily risen over the years. I’m not entirely sure why this is, but my pet theory is that it has something to with the confluence of bear-market-blues, impatience with technical progress, and unusual weather patterns. For the…

Bitcoin

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How Not To Critique Ethereum
How Not To Critique Ethereum
Bitcoin

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Published in The Abacus Crypto Journal

·Apr 1, 2019

Introducing Plasma Tether

Scalable Autonomous Systemic Risks Summary Plasma has proven itself a promising layer 2 blockchain-scaling approach; however, research has struggled with several obstacles, including linear growth of proof data, complications with arbitrary denominated payments, and the highly unnecessary inconvenience of researchers intent on doing actual technical work. Tether is a near-flawless construction…

Blockchain

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Introducing Plasma Tether
Introducing Plasma Tether
Blockchain

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Published in The Abacus Crypto Journal

·Jan 10, 2019

We Need Better Terms for Everything in Cryptocurrency (including “Cryptocurrency”)

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.” -Confucius Crypto discourse has gotten really angry. The good news, however, is that I don’t think this problem is necessarily reflective of personalities in the crypto community. I mean sure, crypto-folk can be hostile, argumentative, closed-minded, and tribalistic…

Blockchain

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We Need Better Terms for Everything in Cryptocurrency (including “Cryptocurrency”)
We Need Better Terms for Everything in Cryptocurrency (including “Cryptocurrency”)
Blockchain

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Published in The Abacus Crypto Journal

·Oct 12, 2018

Mr. Fantastic: A (Focused) Response To Nouriel Roubini’s Senate Testimony

It was bound to happen eventually: economist and noted crypto FUD spreader Nouriel Roubini, aka “Dr. Doom”, testified to the US Senate Committee yesterday, trashing all things crypto and blockchain related. All in all, the presence of a ruthless critic like Roubini in front of the Senate is certainly a…

Blockchain

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Mr. Fantastic: A (Focused) Response To Nouriel Roubini’s Senate Testimony
Mr. Fantastic: A (Focused) Response To Nouriel Roubini’s Senate Testimony
Blockchain

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Published in The Abacus Crypto Journal

·Aug 23, 2018

Lightning Network 2.0

Understanding the next wave of Lightning Network innovations, and the obstacles they seek to overcome on the winding road to a scalable Bitcoin Lightning, it turns out, travels fast. It’s quite a thing to marvel that it’s only been a year since Bitcoin’s Great Block Limit Fiasco of 2017, when…

Bitcoin

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Lightning Network 2.0
Lightning Network 2.0
Bitcoin

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