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Evisceration of Trust

Can we trust each other? It’s one of the fundamental questions that, after the still unbelievable demise of FTX, our industry is struggling to answer. No, we can’t. Can we? Tru...

Nov 27 2022 _ 2 min read

Accelerating Multi-Scalar Multiplication in Hardware… and Software

Zero-Knowledge proofs have many amazing properties, but today, they suffer from a fundamental issue — they’re expensive and difficult to make. In this article, we describe our appr...

Oct 31 2022 _ 6 min read

SAFU: Creating a Standard for Whitehats

Whitehats and DeFi protocols need a shared understanding of security policy. We propose the SAFU - Simple Arrangement for Funding Upload - as a versatile and credible way to let wh...

Oct 24 2022 _ 17 min read

Token Delegation with Lock-Ups

Token delegation contracts may want to use explicit lock-up periods, to give delegates more independence in making crypto governance decisions. We demonstrate using the Maker contr...

Oct 17 2022 _ 9 min read

So You Still Want to Use a Price Oracle

To provide accurate and timely data, price oracles should align incentives with data publishers, i.e. make them "stake" collateral, reputation, and trading capital.

Aug 30 2022 _ 14 min read

Paradigms for On-Chain Credit

Since the massive explosion of DeFi activity and innovation in mid-2020, decentralized lending has become a core pillar of the emerging on-chain financial system.

Aug 22 2022 _ 23 min read

MetaSilo = Silo <3 MetaMask

In this article we introduce MetaSilo — our integration of Silo with MetaMask — which we believe may help larger crypto teams scale and sleep better.

Aug 19 2022 _ 19 min read

Jump Vs. the Speed of Light

“The speed of light is too slow.”

Aug 16 2022 _ 5 min read

Jump Crypto Sets Out to Build New Validator Client for the Solana Blockchain to Increase the Throughput and Reliability of the Network

Jump Crypto applying its research and development prowess to increase the efficiency of one of the world’s fastest blockchains

Aug 16 2022 _ 3 min read

Whitehats and Dropboxes

Protocols should set up "dropboxes" (distinct on-chain addresses) for whitehats to move funds into, from the protocol — and they should promise rewards and favorable treatment for ...

Aug 12 2022 _ 8 min read

Injective Raises $40M from Jump Crypto and BH Digital to Accelerate Growth

Injective, a blockchain built for finance, today announced a new $40 million funding round led by Jump Crypto.

Aug 10 2022 _ 2 min read

Security Stack-Up: How Bridges Compare

As crypto matures, the same maxim is becoming increasingly true about bridge protocols. In terms of security risk, bridges are a big target.

Aug 09 2022 _ 14 min read

Thoughts on Token Bridge Safety

Introduction If the past two decades working in the security industry has taught me anything, it is that software is imperfect. Despite our aspirations of writing perfect code, the...

Aug 03 2022 _ 6 min read

Custody: BFT Policy Checking + Threshold Signatures

"Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins" - that’s what self-custody advocates for. But how does this change when "coins" are worth hundreds of millions in USD and "your" refers to a company...

Jul 28 2022 _ 6 min read

Custody Solutions: Which Option Is Right for Me?

When it comes to custody, there’s no straightforward answer. At Jump Crypto, we’ve used just about every custody option over the years. In this post, we’ll discuss some choices an...

Jul 12 2022 _ 7 min read

Token Design for Serious People

Tokenomics should: (i) provide common goods that couldn't be provided individually, and (ii) reward those who create value rather than extract or transfer value. This piece uses th...

Jul 07 2022 _ 17 min read

DERPs: Decentralized Reinsurance Pools

We introduce decentralized reinsurance pools (DERPs) to enhance the crypto insurance landscape. DERPs are pools of capital that underwrite retail-facing insurance pools and are man...

Jun 21 2022 _ 6 min read

The Depegging of UST

The UST depegging was triggered by a sequence of trades on Curve on May 7. Anchor outflows from May 7 until May 9 — especially from a small set of large traders — put further press...

Jun 03 2022 _ 18 min read

Flavors of Standalone Multichain Architecture

Overview Scalability has long been a widely discussed topic in the space, with conversations around monolithic vs. modular blockchains and horizontal vs. vertical scaling having...

May 23 2022 _ 21 min read

Scaling Smart Contract Security: Why We Invested in Certora

Smart contracts are one of the primary drivers of innovation in the crypto ecosystem. These self-executing instruments act as building blocks for trustless, interconnected applicat...

May 17 2022 _ 3 min read

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