The price of agency

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April 2023
Seeing like a protocol
Where does protocol credibility come from?
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Barnabé Monnot
November 2022
Notes on Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS)
Threading together multiple strands, for a more coherent picture
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Barnabé Monnot
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May 2022
Visualising the 7-block reorg on the Ethereum beacon chain
Yes, re-orgs are bad. No, this situation is not what PoS Ethereum is.
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Barnabé Monnot
February 2022
Understanding rollup economics from first principles
Pricing resources in an L1-dependent economy
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Barnabé Monnot
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April 2021
A data-driven view of the beacon chain incident
Prysm clients stopped proposing blocks last weekend, incurring limited delays and penalties but no loss of finalisation
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Barnabé Monnot
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The road to Ethereum
Visualising a merged, data-sharded, rollup-centric future
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Barnabé Monnot
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March 2021
Better bidding with eip1559
eip1559 bids take a variable reference price, helping you stay afloat
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Barnabé Monnot
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February 2021
Understanding fees in eip1559
eip1559 naturally prices congestion most of the time.
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Barnabé Monnot
Congestion control and eip1559
Drawing a more explicit link between congestion games and eip1559 helps frame how fees arise — and where they should go.
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Barnabé Monnot
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Ethereum, incentives and other things
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