Thread by @plzsats

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.

https://twitter.com/avalancheavax/status/1582140990701174784

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…