# works

- URL: https://alexobadia.com/works/
- Author: Alex Obadia

non-exhaustive list of public writings, presentations and contributions to others' writings. 

### writings
- [Building the Scaling Trust portfolio](https://scalingtrust.org.uk/blog/building-the-scaling-trust-portfolio/), how the programme's portfolio fits together and what comes next, 2026
- [Update on the Scaling Trust Arena](https://scalingtrust.org.uk/blog/update-on-the-scaling-trust-arena/), what the Arena is and how to take part, 2026
- [Scaling Trust](https://aria.org.uk/media/dkhlumky/scaling-trust-programme-thesis.pdf), ARIA programme thesis, in collaboration with Nicola Greco, 2025
- [Trust Everything, Everywhere](https://aria.org.uk/media/4eohsxiq/trust-everything-everywhere-opportunity-space.pdf), ARIA opportunity space, in collaboration with Nicola Greco, 2025
- [Field Update #1: From |0⟩ to |1⟩](https://deepquantum.xyz/blog/field-update-1), Deep Quantum blog, in collaboration with Nicola Greco, 2024 #all-only
- [quantum punks manifesto](https://quantumpunks.org), Quantum Punks, in collaboration with Nicola Greco, 2024
- [mev-boost with unconditional payments](https://github.com/flashbots/mev-boost/issues/109), GitHub issue on flashbots/mev-boost, 2022
- [how does pos ethereum prevent bribery for late block proposal?](https://github.com/flashbots/mev-boost/issues/111), GitHub issue on flashbots/mev-boost, 2022
- [Unity is Strength: A Formalization of Cross-Domain Maximal Extractable Value](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01472), arXiv paper, in collaboration with A. Salles, T. Chitra, V. Chellani, L. Sankar, P. Daian, 2021
- [MEV in eth2 — an early exploration](https://writings.flashbots.net/mev-eth2), Flashbots writings, in collaboration with T. Vemulapalli, 2021
- [Quantifying MEV: Introducing MEV-Explore v0](https://medium.com/flashbots/quantifying-mev-introducing-mev-explore-v0-5ccbee0f6d02), launch of MEV-Explore, a public MEV dashboard, 2021
- [Flashbots: Frontrunning the MEV Crisis](https://medium.com/flashbots/frontrunning-the-mev-crisis-40629a613752), Flashbots' founding post, 2020
- [Exploring DeFi Trading Strategies: Arbitrage in DeFi](https://medium.com/cambrial-capital/exploring-defi-trading-strategies-arbitrage-in-defi-7736dc5dd77a), Cambrial Capital research on DeFi arbitrage, 2019
- [My Top 5 Trends To Watch In AI](https://medium.com/alex-obadia/my-top-5-ai-trends-to-focus-on-ef8b3b7f646), my own blog on Medium, 2018

### presentations/podcasts
- [Scaling Trust: Trust at Machine Speed from Bits to Atoms](https://youtu.be/kv6ZULVzNIE?si=wWe7DVTHnMh2pn5z), Agentic AI Summit, UC Berkeley, 2026
- [Standing up the Scaling Trust Arena](https://youtu.be/mclgJ7ydXV4?is=ZXlXiEjLemOza64h), Autonomous Organization Summit, Stanford University, 2026
- [ARIA @ Real World AI Security](https://youtu.be/LhQM-7GA_Q4?si=hDPSQSpq-XQ6pMK2), [Scaling Trust meetup](https://luma.com/grbv01qi), Stanford University, 2026
- [Why are we here](https://vimeo.com/showcase/11954000?video=1131758673), ARIA Discovery workshop, Bletchley Park, 2025
- [Quantum Punks with Alex and Nicola](https://zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/360/), ZeroKnowledge.FM podcast, with Nicola Greco, 2025
- [Why You Should Care About Maximal Extractable Value (MEV)](https://youtu.be/LKn37F-k8_M), Columbia Business School, New York, 2022
- [The Multichain World is Centralized :( — Studying Cross-Domain MEV](https://youtu.be/dv5-Lzntv5M), MEV.day, Amsterdam, 2022
- [A brief Survey of MEV on Ethereum, BSC, Avalanche and Polygon in 2021](https://youtu.be/OYE9uAf_v18), MEV.day, Amsterdam, 2022
- [Mev.Day Market makers and MEV searchers panel](https://youtu.be/g0XMUBrTrJk), MEV.day, Amsterdam, with Alameda, Gauntlet, DeFiCartel and Dialectic, 2022
- [MEV on Modular Blockchains panel](https://youtu.be/DMUf4wZRp5I), Modular Summit, Amsterdam, 2022
- [MEV in eth2: introduction & open questions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhZ2FDMdVUM&ab_channel=AmphiMonge), EthCC, Paris, with Alejo Salles, 2021
- [MEV after The Merge with Nethermind and Flashbots](https://youtu.be/Hjd9WowOa3g), ETHGlobal, with Tomasz K. Stańczak, 2021
- [MEV on eth2](https://youtu.be/zsgC6mNP9eU), ETHGlobal, 2021
- [Flashbots Research Workshop #7: Cross-domain MEV AMA](https://youtu.be/uR0Z0nWXeFU), Flashbots, 2021

### contributions
- [Generative Cryptography](https://scalingtrust.org.uk/blog/generative-cryptography/), by Nicola Greco, 2026
- [Post-Mythos Crypto](https://nicola.io/post-mythos-crypto/2026), by Nicola Greco, 2026
- [Agentic Economic Zone](https://scalingtrust.org.uk/blog/agentic-economic-zone/), by Nicola Greco, 2026
- [Physical Evals](https://scalingtrust.org.uk/blog/physical-evals/), by Nicola Greco, 2026
- [Coasean Bargaining at Scale](https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/coasean-bargaining-at-scale), by Seb Krier, 2025
- [Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy for High Frequency Traders](https://thequantummilkman.substack.com/p/quantum-pseudo-telepathy-for-high), by Bolton Bailey, 2025
- [Research Directions for Verifiable Crypto-Physically Secure TEEs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03183), by Sylvain Bellemare, 2024
- [Introducing Nebra Labs](https://web.archive.org/web/20240712141122/https://nebra.one/article/introducing-nebra-labs), by Nebra Team, 2024 #all-only
- [Backrunning private txs in MPC](https://writings.flashbots.net/backrunning-private-txs-MPC), by Robert Annessi, 2023
- [Paths toward single-slot finality](https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/single_slot_finality), by Vitalik Buterin, 2022
- [Speeding Up the EVM - Part 1](https://writings.flashbots.net/speeding-up-evm-part-1), by Xinyuan Sun, 2022
- [Understanding rollup economics from first principles](https://barnabe.substack.com/p/understanding-rollup-economics-from), by Barnabe Monnot, 2022
- [Block Building Inside SGX](https://writings.flashbots.net/block-building-inside-sgx), by Chris Hager, 2022
- [The Future of MEV is SUAVE](https://writings.flashbots.net/the-future-of-mev-is-suave), by Flashbots, 2022
- [State of research: increasing censorship resistance of transactions under proposer/builder separation (PBS)](https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/pbs_censorship_resistance), by Vitalik Buterin, 2021
- [Endgame](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/12/06/endgame.html), by Vitalik Buterin, 2021
- [A Formalization of MEV](https://writings.flashbots.net/formalization-mev), by Alejo Salles, 2021
- [The tradeoffs of cross-chain communication](https://www.lsankar.xyz/posts/tradeoffs-ccc), by Lakshman Sankar, 2021
- [Generalized Mining, The LP's Perspective](https://medium.com/cambrial-capital/generalised-mining-the-lps-perspective-72dfa2d22afd), by David Fauchier, 2018

### resources collections 
- [Bookmarks relevant for r&d process and innovation systems researchers](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/bookmarks-relevant-for-r-d-process-and-innovation-systems-researchers/1081), Flashbots Collective forum, 2023
- [Bookmarks relevant for mempool privacy researchers](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/bookmarks-relevant-for-mempool-privacy-researchers/1091), Flashbots Collective forum, 2023
- [Bookmarks relevant for consensus researchers](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/bookmarks-relevant-for-consensus-researchers/1204), Flashbots Collective forum, 2023
- [Bookmarks relevant for cross-domain researchers](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/bookmarks-relevant-for-cross-domain-researchers/753), Flashbots Collective forum, 2022
- [Quantifying Total Extracted MEV – A List of Resources](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/quantifying-total-extracted-mev-a-list-of-resources/936), Flashbots Collective forum, 2022