Shipping Protocol::Improve UX @ethereumfndn — research in public
Oct 20, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Launching today "RIG Open Problems" (ROPs), a collection of problem prompts we're looking to solve with *you*! 🌱
The prompts come with some questions to answer, but could lead to more open-ended explorations.
efdn.notion.site/ROPs-RIG-Open-…
This is partly inspired by the Flashbots "FRP" system, and motivated by more demands to collaborate/requests for interesting projects to look at, in particular from the recent Ethereum Protocol Fellowship blog.ethereum.org/2022/09/01/eth…
Aug 5, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
EIP-1559 is going live today! I am very excited to see all the work that went into it come alive 😀
And among all the excitement for the burn, I wanted to share a little more about why this mechanism is in place
To many, the burn is intrinsically linked to EIP-1559, but the relationship is more nuanced. EIP-1559 today has two properties:
1) It captures economic value created by the use of the network 2) It removes this value from the supply
Jun 6, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@rshandross “There is no central authority that designs, engineers and runs the Internet. But what if there were such master puppeteer, a benevolent dictator who, for example, micromanaged its operation, allocating bandwidth to flows so as to maximize total satisfaction? ...”
@rshandross “... How much better
would the Internet run? What is the price of anarchy?” (C. Papadimitriou, algorithms, games and the internet). This is the starting point of my thesis (and many others)
Jun 5, 2019 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
🥳 Yesterday I defended my PhD, "Efficiency, regret and inequality in decentralised systems" 🥳 I'll have more to say about it, but here is a quick twitter abstract 👇
People usually minimise some cost function, like when they walk on the grass to reach the other side. But the social planner would like to minimise costs / damages, so would rather some of them deviate to the path in yellow
