Types of Distributed Systems Papers. Joke modeled after Randall Munroe 's xkcd.com/2456/ #distributedsystems #distributedsystemsjokes

Blink, our optimal light client for proof of work, has been accepted at Financial Crypto 2025 🥳 Made with love TU Wien Stanford University Common Prefix CDL-BOT eprint.iacr.org/2024/692 Zeta Avarikioti Lukas Aumayr Dionysis Zindros Giulia Scaffino

Blockchain scaling has more in common with optimizing pizza delivery than you might expect!

100k TPS sounds cool, but what’s the point if latency comes at turtle's pace? 🐢 Speed isn’t about how much, it's about how soon 🕛 Check out my new pod network 🫛 blog post for an easy walkthrough on latency and throughput of distributed systems! 🔥

New ⁦pod network⁩ blog post is out!🫛⁦Giulia Scaffino⁩ explains why TPS is not the whole story and breaks down how speed of distributed systems is just as much about latency and high throughput! 🏎️ pod.network/blog/your-favo…

The Italian government pays Musk 1.5B EUR for top-level encryption and secure communication. First, I would be curious to know what “top-level encryption” means. Second, what about sovereignty? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Congrats to the amazing team of pod network 🫛 shresth Alex Brezas Haris Karavassilis for the first 10M seed round. Wish you godspeed or, better, podspeed! 🔥

The end of blockchains is closer than you think. Blockchains were a good start, but Web3 needs to become asynchronous ASAP if we want to build real products that work at Internet scale.

Thank you to Credito Padano BCC Italian Bank for inviting me to talk about Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and DeFi. It's great to see how banks and traditional finance is letting go of prejudices and stepping up to explore new currencies and technologies! S&P TU Wien Common Prefix

new blog alert! TL;DR pod-core provides fast finality, censorship resistance, and accountable safety all at once, and it can be broken into three simple ingredients: 1. broadcasting: client writes a transaction by sending it to all validators. 2. chaining: validator votes are

If you’re attending the NDSS Symposium next week, catch CP’s Giulia Scaffino presenting “Alba: The Dawn of Scalable Bridges for Blockchains” during the Blockchain Security 2 session on Feb 27th. 🕰️11:00am 📍Wyndham San Diego Bayside Hotel. 1/3

🎙️ Had a great convo with patrickogrady.xyz on How Things Work. Here are some highlights: 0:04:19 The story behind pod 0:18:24 Optimal latency generalized consensus using timestamps 1:00:00 Network reconfiguration without consensus 1:10:40 Application-specific ordering

Clementine is out! 🍊🤩 Clementine is the first practical, collateral-efficient, scalable, and secure Bitcoin bridge. Was fun working with and for the amazing team of Citrea 🔥

Great to collaborate with Citrea on the Clementine whitepaper - co-authored by Common Prefix researchers Lukas Aumayr, Giulia Scaffino, and Dr. Orfeas Litos. This protocol is a major step forward for Bitcoin bridges and for bringing trust-minimized interoperability and

Clementine Whitepaper Livestream x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Looking forward to seeing y'all at our Crypto side event at the brand new Common Prefix offices in central Athens! I'll give a short talk and then we'll have two super interesting expert panels. Come for the talks, stay for the connections, discussions, and finger food!

The new Common Prefix's office in Athens is the place to be at 🔥 stop by it tomorrow!

Check out the new blog post by our very own Max Resnick and guest blogger toly 🇺🇸! It explains how multiple concurrent leaders will make decentralized NASDAQ a reality on Solana. Link below 👇

Interested in the Alpenglow Presentation Slides (PDF)?disco.ethz.ch/members/wroger… Then go and read the white paper: anza.xyz/blog/alpenglow… Feedback very much appreciated! Quentin Kniep Kobi Solana

excited for the new era of combinatorial batch auctions on CoW protocol! combinatorial auctions allow for auctioning multiple items simultaneously when their values might be co-related. imagine you had to auction off item A and B. naively, you could either hold two separate