
Karthik Srinivasan
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co-founder @SorellaLabs | math/physics dropout @UChicago | contributing @angstromxyz
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20-04-2022 20:10:18
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Good sleuthing from Alex Nezlobin. Remember to rigorously analyze a mechanism from the perspective of a motivated adversary prior to shipping it in prod Good mechanisms always prove malfeasance is -EV. Great mechanisms prevent it entirely



Last year, Tarun Chitra, Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira and I wrote about credible auctions in blockchains (arxiv.org/pdf/2301.12532). We demonstrated how blockchains can be used to implement auctions where the auctioneer doesn't have an incentive to shill bid & manipulate the auction outcome. In


1/ At Paradigm, we spend a lot of time thinking about MEV and baselayer markets. So we were excited when Hester Peirce and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Crypto Task Force posed a number of important questions on the subject. Today (with a hand from Rodrigo), we filed our response:










Because ETH isn’t an ERC-20, you can’t approve it, you have to wrap into WETH or pre-deposit ETH. That extra step breaks the smooth, intent-based DeFi flows we all want. Before DeFi truly goes “native ETH,” we need EIP-7914 so apps can pull ETH directly: github.com/snreynolds/ERC…

