Archive - The price of agency

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May 7, 2024 •

Barnabé Monnot

August 2023

RIG Update #1 — EthCC[6]

Timing games, supply networks, and what is the role of the protocol in all of this?

Published on Robust communications • Aug 8, 2023

April 2023

Seeing like a protocol

Where does protocol credibility come from?

Apr 10, 2023 •

Barnabé Monnot

November 2022

Notes on Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS)

Threading together multiple strands, for a more coherent picture

Nov 8, 2022 •

Barnabé Monnot

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.

May 29, 2022 •

Barnabé Monnot

February 2022

Understanding rollup economics from first principles

Pricing resources in an L1-dependent economy

Feb 24, 2022 •

Barnabé Monnot

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

Apr 30, 2021 •

Barnabé Monnot

The road to Ethereum

Visualising a merged, data-sharded, rollup-centric future

Apr 20, 2021 •

Barnabé Monnot

March 2021

Better bidding with eip1559

eip1559 bids take a variable reference price, helping you stay afloat

Mar 5, 2021 •

Barnabé Monnot

February 2021

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