Timing Games: Probabilistic backrunning and spam,
with Bruno Mazorra and Christoph Schlegel
ACM Conference of Economics and Computation, EC 2026
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My research focuses on mechanism design and optimization applied to decentralized systems, particularly blockchains.
Rollup Optimization
My primary research goal is to model, analyze, and optimize rollup protocol mechanics. Rollups help base-layer blockchains scale by improving transaction fees and speed. Designing efficient rollup technology, especially from an economic perspective, is a compelling research area.
Blockchain Governance
This field spans economics and political science. I study the players involved and how to design incentives and decision-making rules so participants contribute to the development of the underlying technology and ecosystem.
Decentralized Finance
I study automated market makers (AMMs) and their properties, including their economic mechanisms, efficiency, and impact on decentralized trading.
Conference Proceedings
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Price Elasticity of Gas Demand on L1 and L2: Evidence from Ethereum and Arbitrum,
with Pranay Anchuri
Advances in Financial Technologies, AFT 2026
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On Sibyl-Proof Mechanisms,
with Minghao Pan, Bruno Mazorra and Christoph Schlegel
Advances in Financial Technologies, AFT 2026
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Economic Censorship Games in Fraud Proofs,
with Ben Berger, Edward W. Felten, Benny Sudakov
ACM Conference of Economics and Computation, EC 2025
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Journal Articles
Axioms for constant function market makers,
with Christoph Schlegel and Mateusz Kwasnicki
Mathematical Finance, 2026
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Do we need a (large) committee?,
with Hans Gersbach and Oriol Tejada
European Economic Review, 2025
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Direct or representative democracy? Co-Voting!,
with Hans Gersbach and Oriol Tejada
Mathematical Social Sciences, 2025
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Potential and Risks of Staking Pools on Blockchains,
with Hans Gersbach and Manvir Schneider
ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice, 2025
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Podcasts and Talks
Economic Censorship Games in Fraud Proofs
EIP-4844 economics and rollup strategies
TimeBoost: Auctioning Time-Advantage in FCFS
Exploring the Arbitrum Ecosystem
Working Papers
The Cost of Secure Restaking vs. Proof-of-Stake,
with Benny Sudakov
Conditionally accepted at AFT 2026
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Just-in-Time Resale in an Ahead-of-Time Auction for Faster Execution,
with Burak Oz, Christoph Schlegel and Ali Taslimi
Conditionally accepted at AFT 2026
Searcher Competition in Block Building,
with Christoph Schlegel, Benny Sudakov and Danning Sui
Accepted subject to minor revision at ACM TWEB
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