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Understanding Optimal Swap Behavior for Mempool Transactions
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are one of the core foundations of DeFi, facilitating billions of dollars in daily transactions. One would expect that such a critical and battle-tes...
Understanding Optimal Swap Behavior for Mempool Transactions
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are one of the core foundations of DeFi, facilitating billions of dollars in daily transactions. One would expect that such a critical and battle-tes...
Preventing Airdrop Theft on Stride: an IBC integration vulnerability
This blog post describes a vulnerability we discovered in Stride, a Cosmos chain for liquid staking across the Cosmos ecosystem. The issue could have allowed an attacker to steal a...
Preventing Airdrop Theft on Stride: an IBC integration vulnerability
This blog post describes a vulnerability we discovered in Stride, a Cosmos chain for liquid staking across the Cosmos ecosystem. The issue could have allowed an attacker to steal a...
Pushing the Boundaries of Web3 Gaming Together with the Pit, Supported by Google Cloud
We’re excited to announce that the Pit is teaming up with Google Cloud for a week-long in-person game jam on June 12th-17th in Singapore.
Pushing the Boundaries of Web3 Gaming Together with the Pit, Supported by Google Cloud
We’re excited to announce that the Pit is teaming up with Google Cloud for a week-long in-person game jam on June 12th-17th in Singapore.
Stealing Gas: Bypassing Ethermint Ante Handlers
This blog post describes a largely unknown bug class that affects Cosmos-based blockchains and its impact on Ethermint, a popular EVM implementation.
Stealing Gas: Bypassing Ethermint Ante Handlers
This blog post describes a largely unknown bug class that affects Cosmos-based blockchains and its impact on Ethermint, a popular EVM implementation.
Bridging and Finality: Optimism and Arbitrum
In this article, we’ll step through each aspect of the rollup protocol and explain what assurances the user has over their transaction’s finality at every point.
Bridging and Finality: Optimism and Arbitrum
In this article, we’ll step through each aspect of the rollup protocol and explain what assurances the user has over their transaction’s finality at every point.
Recap: High-Altitude Innovation at the Pit ETHDenver
Twenty-five thousand attendees took to the Mile High City for ETHDenver, and more than 1,000 made their way to the Pit to build alongside industry leaders, level up in co-working s...
Recap: High-Altitude Innovation at the Pit ETHDenver
Twenty-five thousand attendees took to the Mile High City for ETHDenver, and more than 1,000 made their way to the Pit to build alongside industry leaders, level up in co-working s...
Bridging and Finality: Ethereum
In this post, we explore the tradeoff between latency and reversion risk at the major stages in Ethereum’s current proof-of-stake consensus protocol.
Bridging and Finality: Ethereum
In this post, we explore the tradeoff between latency and reversion risk at the major stages in Ethereum’s current proof-of-stake consensus protocol.
Helping Secure BNB Chain Through Responsible Disclosure
We describe a vulnerability we discovered in the BNB Beacon Chain, the governance and staking layer of BNB Chain. The issue would have allowed an attacker to mint an infinite numbe...
Helping Secure BNB Chain Through Responsible Disclosure
We describe a vulnerability we discovered in the BNB Beacon Chain, the governance and staking layer of BNB Chain. The issue would have allowed an attacker to mint an infinite numbe...
Gaming Infrastructure Part 4: Communication Infra in an ARC World
Now that we understand the motivations behind building games on-chain, we can return to exploring ARC architecture, which we argue is the optimal approach to building on-chain game...
Gaming Infrastructure Part 4: Communication Infra in an ARC World
Now that we understand the motivations behind building games on-chain, we can return to exploring ARC architecture, which we argue is the optimal approach to building on-chain game...
Gaming Infrastructure Part 3: Benefits of Building Games On-Chain
There has been warranted skepticism among both the gaming and crypto communities around the virtue of having any part of a game state stored on-chain, in the wake of the hyper-fina...
Gaming Infrastructure Part 3: Benefits of Building Games On-Chain
There has been warranted skepticism among both the gaming and crypto communities around the virtue of having any part of a game state stored on-chain, in the wake of the hyper-fina...
Gaming Infrastructure Part 2: Introduction to ARC
Over the next few articles, we will highlight some of the infrastructure that could enable fully on-chain games (FOC) and on-chain assets (OCA), along with rough designs of what ea...
Gaming Infrastructure Part 2: Introduction to ARC
Over the next few articles, we will highlight some of the infrastructure that could enable fully on-chain games (FOC) and on-chain assets (OCA), along with rough designs of what ea...
Gaming Infrastructure Part 1: Defining On-chain Gaming
Gaming has long been touted as a potential core use case for crypto. Built around natively digital assets and serving global audiences, games are in many ways the perfect candidate...
Gaming Infrastructure Part 1: Defining On-chain Gaming
Gaming has long been touted as a potential core use case for crypto. Built around natively digital assets and serving global audiences, games are in many ways the perfect candidate...
Bridging and Finality: An Introduction
In an upcoming series, we’re going to dive into the guarantees that different chains make about finality and the block production/consensus mechanisms that produce those guarantees...
Bridging and Finality: An Introduction
In an upcoming series, we’re going to dive into the guarantees that different chains make about finality and the block production/consensus mechanisms that produce those guarantees...
Statistical Attacks on Proof of Solvency
In theory, for Proof of Solvency to bind on crypto exchanges, only a handful of random checks are needed. But in practice, exchanges can predict which consumers are likely to check...
Statistical Attacks on Proof of Solvency
In theory, for Proof of Solvency to bind on crypto exchanges, only a handful of random checks are needed. But in practice, exchanges can predict which consumers are likely to check...
Firedancer Reliability Efforts
Backed by decades of experience developing global trading systems operating at far greater scale than public blockchains, Jump seeks to improve Solana network reliability by buildi...
Firedancer Reliability Efforts
Backed by decades of experience developing global trading systems operating at far greater scale than public blockchains, Jump seeks to improve Solana network reliability by buildi...