works
non-exhaustive list of public writings, presentations and contributions to others' writings.
writings
- Building the Scaling Trust portfolio how the programme's portfolio fits together and what comes next 2026
- Update on the Scaling Trust Arena what the Arena is and how to take part 2026
- Scaling Trust ARIA programme thesis, in collaboration with Nicola Greco 2025
- Trust Everything, Everywhere ARIA opportunity space, in collaboration with Nicola Greco 2025
- Field Update #1: From |0⟩ to |1⟩ Deep Quantum blog, in collaboration with Nicola Greco 2024
- quantum punks manifesto Quantum Punks, in collaboration with Nicola Greco 2024
- mev-boost with unconditional payments GitHub issue on flashbots/mev-boost 2022
- how does pos ethereum prevent bribery for late block proposal? GitHub issue on flashbots/mev-boost 2022
- Unity is Strength: A Formalization of Cross-Domain Maximal Extractable Value arXiv paper, in collaboration with A. Salles, T. Chitra, V. Chellani, L. Sankar, P. Daian 2021
- MEV in eth2 — an early exploration Flashbots writings, in collaboration with T. Vemulapalli 2021
- Quantifying MEV: Introducing MEV-Explore v0 launch of MEV-Explore, a public MEV dashboard 2021
- Flashbots: Frontrunning the MEV Crisis Flashbots' founding post 2020
- Exploring DeFi Trading Strategies: Arbitrage in DeFi Cambrial Capital research on DeFi arbitrage 2019
- My Top 5 Trends To Watch In AI my own blog on Medium 2018
talks & podcasts
- Scaling Trust: Trust at Machine Speed from Bits to Atoms Agentic AI Summit, UC Berkeley 2026
- Standing up the Scaling Trust Arena Autonomous Organization Summit, Stanford University 2026
- ARIA @ Real World AI Security Scaling Trust meetup, Stanford University 2026
- Why are we here ARIA Discovery workshop, Bletchley Park 2025
- Quantum Punks with Alex and Nicola ZeroKnowledge.FM podcast, with Nicola Greco 2025
- Why You Should Care About Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) Columbia Business School, New York 2022
- The Multichain World is Centralized :( — Studying Cross-Domain MEV MEV.day, Amsterdam 2022
- A brief Survey of MEV on Ethereum, BSC, Avalanche and Polygon in 2021 MEV.day, Amsterdam 2022
- Mev.Day Market makers and MEV searchers panel MEV.day, Amsterdam, with Alameda, Gauntlet, DeFiCartel and Dialectic 2022
- MEV on Modular Blockchains panel Modular Summit, Amsterdam 2022
- MEV in eth2: introduction & open questions EthCC, Paris, with Alejo Salles 2021
- MEV after The Merge with Nethermind and Flashbots ETHGlobal, with Tomasz K. Stańczak 2021
- MEV on eth2 ETHGlobal 2021
- Flashbots Research Workshop #7: Cross-domain MEV AMA Flashbots 2021
contributions
- Generative Cryptography by Nicola Greco 2026
- Post-Mythos Crypto by Nicola Greco 2026
- Agentic Economic Zone by Nicola Greco 2026
- Physical Evals by Nicola Greco 2026
- Coasean Bargaining at Scale by Seb Krier 2025
- Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy for High Frequency Traders by Bolton Bailey 2025
- Research Directions for Verifiable Crypto-Physically Secure TEEs by Sylvain Bellemare 2024
- Introducing Nebra Labs by Nebra Team 2024
- Backrunning private txs in MPC by Robert Annessi 2023
- Paths toward single-slot finality by Vitalik Buterin 2022
- Speeding Up the EVM - Part 1 by Xinyuan Sun 2022
- Understanding rollup economics from first principles by Barnabe Monnot 2022
- Block Building Inside SGX by Chris Hager 2022
- The Future of MEV is SUAVE by Flashbots 2022
- State of research: increasing censorship resistance of transactions under proposer/builder separation (PBS) by Vitalik Buterin 2021
- Endgame by Vitalik Buterin 2021
- A Formalization of MEV by Alejo Salles 2021
- The tradeoffs of cross-chain communication by Lakshman Sankar 2021
- Generalized Mining, The LP's Perspective by David Fauchier 2018
resources
- Bookmarks relevant for r&d process and innovation systems researchers Flashbots Collective forum 2023
- Bookmarks relevant for mempool privacy researchers Flashbots Collective forum 2023
- Bookmarks relevant for consensus researchers Flashbots Collective forum 2023
- Bookmarks relevant for cross-domain researchers Flashbots Collective forum 2022
- Quantifying Total Extracted MEV – A List of Resources Flashbots Collective forum 2022