Ethereum Inclusion Lists and Censorship Resistance
How Ethereum's inclusion list auction design limits builder censorship power, with concrete mechanics and honest caveats about what it can and can't fix.
№ 002DeFiMEV: Public Mempools vs Private Transaction Relays
Your transaction's route, public mempool or private relay, determines who can extract value from it and how much. The mechanics, the tradeoffs, the gaps.
№ 003EthereumEthereum Inclusion Lists and Builder Censorship
Inclusion lists let validators force transactions into blocks without ending builder specialization. The mechanism, its limits, and what it changes in practice.
№ 004EthereumEthereum Withdrawal Queue and Its Real Cost to Yield
Ethereum's activation and exit queues impose a computable drag on effective yield. The mechanism, the arithmetic, and what solo stakers typically miss.
№ 005SecuritySmart Contract Proxy Storage Collision Explained
Proxy patterns enable smart contract upgrades, but storage slot collisions can silently corrupt funds, the mechanism, the tradeoffs, and what auditors check.
№ 006AnalysisPolymarket's $2.34 Billion World Cup: What Prediction Markets Mean for Crypto
Polymarket hit $2.34 billion in World Cup trading volume. I looked at what that volume means, where it came from, and why crypto prediction markets might change things.
№ 007SecurityVerifiable Delay Functions and Randomness Beacon Security
VDFs make on-chain randomness manipulation structurally expensive via a sequential delay no adversary can compress. The mechanics, caveats, tradeoffs.
№ 008DeFiDeFi Lending Protocols: Governance Attack Defenses
Timelocks, quorum thresholds, and historical vote snapshots form layered barriers against governance attacks, each mechanism examined on its own terms.
№ 009SecurityFormal Verification vs Smart Contract Security Audit
A security audit finds likely bugs. Formal verification proves their absence mathematically. The difference in cost, time, and guarantees, laid out plainly.
№ 010DeFiPlasma Mass Exit: The Mechanism When Data Is Withheld
A Plasma operator withholds block data and every user must race to exit. The exact mechanism, its structural limits, and what it reveals about Layer 2 security.
№ 011EthereumLayer-Two Networks and Ethereum Security Inheritance
Not every L2 borrows Ethereum's security guarantees, the mechanical gap between those that do and those that only borrow its liquidity, explained.
№ 012DeFiZero Slippage Tolerance Starves Sandwich Bots
Zero slippage tolerance forces sandwich bots into guaranteed losses, the mechanics of amountOutMinimum explain exactly why the attack collapses.