I am an ecosystem builder and researcher writing about crypto infrastructure and the staking economy.
Quo Vadis Validation?
Restaking and Shared Security - The Future of Blockchain Infrastructure?This post is based on a keynote I gave on the Staking Summit 2023 during Devconnect Istanbul. As the blockchain ecosystem is expanding and maturing, a variety of different network architectures are emerging. Over the past few years, simple consensus networks with empty blocks turned into complex systems that rely on layers of infrastructure to enable a functioning and interoperable experience for developers and users alik...
Quo Vadis Validation?
Restaking and Shared Security - The Future of Blockchain Infrastructure?This post is based on a keynote I gave on the Staking Summit 2023 during Devconnect Istanbul. As the blockchain ecosystem is expanding and maturing, a variety of different network architectures are emerging. Over the past few years, simple consensus networks with empty blocks turned into complex systems that rely on layers of infrastructure to enable a functioning and interoperable experience for developers and users alik...
MEV: The Final Frontier of Staking Economics?
A core enabler for the growth of crypto networks has historically been the issuance of new tokens to compensate active participants. From the Bitcoin block reward, to the distribution of inflated tokens to stakers in Proof-of-Stake, to yield farming enabling DeFi protocols to bootstrap liquidity. All these protocols usually have in common that token incentives are targeted to be temporary; distributed to bootstrap the protocol. Usually there is a fee - or at least an expectation - that a prot...
MEV: The Final Frontier of Staking Economics?
A core enabler for the growth of crypto networks has historically been the issuance of new tokens to compensate active participants. From the Bitcoin block reward, to the distribution of inflated tokens to stakers in Proof-of-Stake, to yield farming enabling DeFi protocols to bootstrap liquidity. All these protocols usually have in common that token incentives are targeted to be temporary; distributed to bootstrap the protocol. Usually there is a fee - or at least an expectation - that a prot...
