The $kas founder, Yonatan Sompolinsky, pops up all over the place in crypto. Just take a look at his Scholar page . Thousands of citations of his research .
scholar.google.co.il/citations?user…
Let’s dig a little deeper.
lets Start with the most obvious ones many of you will be familiar with. $eth #ethereum white and yellow paper. Located here
ethereum.org/en/whitepaper/
ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/pa…
just Ctrl + f his name to confirm .
#ETH
Next up #Polkadot .
$dot is Another well known and respected project from Gavin Wood. Yonatan appears in their Grandpa paper here :
github.com/w3f/consensus/…
Ok…not impressed yet? fine…Let’s move on to $iota . You’ll find him in several #iota research papers if you do a little digging here :
iota.org/foundation/res…
the screenshot below is an example from their tangle 2.0 paper, but there are several where you’ll find him .
next up. $avax . In a paper title when is spring coming
arxiv.org/pdf/2210.03423…
you may notice not just Yonatan, but another $kas legend , @DesheShai in this one .
Even the main #Avalanche twitter account posted about this paper.
Next up . Blocksec. The guys over at @BlockSecTeam do smart contract audits among other things.
Their paper Operation-level Concurrent Transaction Execution for Blockchains, cites both Yonatan and Shai.
arxiv.org/pdf/2211.07911…
Enjoying yourself ? Great.
You’ll also appreciate the type of people that follows Yonatan on twitter. google is your friend here.
real #crypto OGs , and tells Me everything I need to know when these types follow him .
Honestly, this is just scratching the surface. Have a browse through the Google scholar page and you‘ll see he pops up in some very interesting places.
scholar.google.co.il/citations?user…
would appreciate a retweet if you enjoyed this $kas chads. It took a bit of time .
I’ll be adding to this list as I find more.
another one, this time #Algorand . Yonatan is referenced in the paper below Co authored by Yossi Gilad, who is CTO over at $algo
you’ll notice these are all different papers of his being referenced .
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…
Here is a interesting one. You’ve all heard of Ericsson, right? Big company. Well take a look at this paper and see who you find.
Yep. He in papers in big brands too.
ericsson.com/en/reports-and…
Worth mentioning same research paper appears on the large south Korea site called Naver. It is like Google over there.
academic.naver.com/article.naver?…
Pretty cool right? Anyway, here is the $kas founder appearing in 3 research papers on the national library of medicine. (US gov site)
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Do you want more or are you bored?
Ok . Onwards. We’re all clearly enjoying ourselves with this nerd fest. here he is on the National science foundation. Another US gov website.
par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/…
$kas
Moving back round to $eth, we have located him on the #ETH research website too . This is in addition to their white and yellow papers .
ethresear.ch/uploads/short-…
Still on the subject of #ETH youll find him in various improvement proposals too . For example
eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2028
Another crypto project the $kas founders work is cited in is #decred $dcr . Not a small project by any means.
decred.org/research/nayak…
You’ll also find him being used as a reference in peoples patent applications on Google
patents.google.com/patent/WO20201…
Moving on. Here he is on Adam Backs @Blockstream . (Yes that Adam back)
blockstream.com/strong-federat…
$kas
Let’s pick up where we left off with another interesting one.
here is $kas founder being referenced by co founder of cosmos $atom , Ethan Buchman in his Byzantine fault tolerance paper.
atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/bitstrea…
Ok next up we have researcher, Rafael pass, from @ThunderCoreLab , referencing Yonatan in his Fruitchains paper.
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…
Ok here we go again $kas fam. Here is Yonatan referenced in a paper written by Sreeram Kannan, founder of @eigenlayer and David Tse , founder of @babylon_chain on cosmos.
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…
Is anyone still reading? 🤣This is turning into quite a list.
Ok . Here is research scientist from @Mysten_Labs ( @SuiNetwork ) referencing $kas founder Yonatan Sompolinsky in his consensus in the age of blockchains paper.
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…
Worth noting the paper above is also co authored by co founder of @CelestiaOrg , Mustafa Al-Bassam, Sarah Azouvi from @protocollabs , Patrick McCorry @infura_io amd George Danezis also @Mysten_Labs chief scientist.
$kas chads. Now we have IOHK , which is @Cardano ( $ada ) research and engineering company
they mention Zohar and Sompolinsky Ghost, back in 2016
iohk.io/en/blog/posts/…
this paper by iohk chief scientist Prof Aggelos Kiayias, references Yonatan
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…
are you not entertained? Well that’s fine.
How about senior director of engineering over at @Ripple , ( $xrp ) Brad Chase, and former ripple research engineer Ethan MacBrough, now @Coil referencing $kas founder?
arxiv.org/pdf/1802.07242…
ok, next up. @monero $xmr a fun trip down memory lane
web.getmonero.org/2017/10/30/log…
getmonero.org/el/2017/11/05/…
getmonero.org/2019/03/25/log…
Ok want more? How about a relatively new, but big one. @Aptos_Network $apt .
aptoslabs.com/assets/pdf/220…
in this paper you will find Yonatan of $kas once more.
Paper is written by several authors including Alexander Spiegelman @AptosLabs and several from @Mysten_Labs .
Here is former chief blockchain researcher over at @vechainofficial $vet talking about what scalability in blockchains really means. Unfortunately Yonatan isn’t in there.
medium.com/vechain-founda…
lol jk, of course he is
$kas
ok now $ftm @FantomFDN
$kas founder Yonatan Sompolinsky is listed on several papers here
fantom.foundation/fantom-researc……
Including their Whitepaper 2.0
arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01900……
written by their main guys ofc. Andre Cronje , Quan Nguyen (CTO), M Kong (CEO)
Time for a break. We continue after this.
Interesting conversation between OGs all the way back in 2014. you’ll notice Nathan Wilcox CTO of zecash $zec talking about Ghost. Some interesting names mentioned including former CTO of @Blockstream and early $btc core developer Gregory Maxwell
github.com/zcash/zcash/is…
$kas
All good? Right.
here is $kas founder in @Fetch_ai $fet yellow paper
fetch.ai/pdfs/Fetch.AI-…
Gm. We continue. Here is $kas founder Yonatan in the $dusk whitepaper. Citing his optimal selfish mining strategies research.
dusk.network/uploads/dusk-w…
Ok. Next up we have $sys @syscoin . Pretty well known project right?
Here is $kas founder Yonatan in their Whitepaper. Citing his scalable blockDAG protocol .
syscoin.org/syscoin3_white…
moving on…many of the Chinese $kas fans will be familiar with @Conflux_Network $cfx .
here is Yonatan cited in their economic paper.
confluxnetwork.org/files/Conflux_…
Who remembers @vergecurrency $xvg ? I know I do. Was hyped like crazy in the 2017 run.
here is $kas @KaspaCurrency founder Yonatan in their black paper
vergecurrency.com/static/blackpa…
Another fun one. Here is $kas @KaspaCurrency founder Yonatan in a $btc magazine article all the way back in 2014 about $eth #Ethereum . Keep in mind this is way before #eth launched.
bitcoinmagazine.com/business/ether…
Circling back to @avalancheavax now.
How about a paper of $avax written by founders Emin Gün Sirer, Kevin Sekniqi, referencing $kas founder Yonatan Sompolinsky?
arxiv.org/pdf/1906.08936…
Staying on the subject of $avax @avalancheavax .
here is a paper co authored by the avax founder way back in 2016 referencing $kas founder Yonatan not once, but 7 times.
usenix.org/system/files/c…
Next we have the chief research officer over at $link @chainlink , Dahlia Malkhi and Alexander Spiegelman of @Aptos_Network Solidus paper .
this one references $kas @KaspaCurrency founder a few times.
cs.umd.edu/~kartik/papers…
Here we have Ari Juels, chief scientist at chainlink labs $link , Christian Decker, researcher @Blockstream , Emin Gün Sirer, founder of $avax, and Dawn Song of Oasis labs ( $rose ) referencing $kas @KaspaCurrency founder Yonatan Sompolinsky.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Ok next up protocol ai . These are the guys behind @Filecoin $fil .
here is Marko Vukolić, research scientist, referencing $kas founder Yonatan.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
they have more scientists and researchers that reference him but they have tons of staff. You get the idea
Here is one that references $kas founder Yonatan Sompolinsky
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/33…
with Ian Miers who wrote the 1st papers on zk proofs and SNARKs
Ben Fisch who Designed Proof-of-Replication, the mining protocol currently used by $fil
and Ari Juels chief scientist $link
Ok…I thought it would be fun for some more cardano $ada
here is another paper on iohk referencing $kas founder Yonatan Sompolinsky
iohk.io/en/research/li…
written by chief scientist of iog/iohk (cardano ) Aggelos Kiayias
cardano.org/partners/?tab=…
Do we want more? Ok …..
here is Loi Luu founder @KyberNetwork $knc
And…..
Prateek Saxena co founder of @zilliqa $zil
referencing $kas @KaspaCurrency founder Yonatan Sompolinsky
weusecoins.com/assets/pdf/lib…
here is one many of you will know..
This is a paper Ed Felton, founder of @OffchainLabs co authored. Thats right, they build @arbitrum heard of it?thought you might have.
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid…
Anyway, Yonatan Sompolinsky of $kas @KaspaCurrency is once again referenced.
Just for fun here is the other @OffchainLabs (@arbitrum) founder, Harry Kalodner, referencing Yonatan Sompolinsky of $kas as well.
Why? Because you gotta catch them all like Pokémon.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/29…
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