Research
- Delegated Underwriting (2026): undercollateralized lending without identity checks or centralized underwriting
- SOLO (2024): lowers Ethereum validator capital requirements from 32 ETH to 1.25 ETH
- Commitment-Satisfaction Committees (2023): Ethereum attester committees that verify whether block proposers kept their commitments, solving the Ethereum Foundation's open problem ROP-4
- PEPC-DVT (2023): enforces block-proposer commitments on Ethereum without changing consensus rules
- Private PEPC-DVT (2023): private block-proposer commitments using blinded signatures
- Consensus Algorithms for Blockchains (2020): survey of proof-of-work, proof-of-stake, and delegated proof-of-stake
Selected Projects
credit (2024–present): made 1.4 million undercollateralized loans to 900,000 unique borrowers, who repaid $3.1 million; returned 12% from September 2025 to September 2026sandwich-mitigating-uniswap-v2 (2024): Uniswap V2 fork with sequencing rules that limit sandwich attacksmev-tax (2024): Solidity library for capturing MEV via priority-fee taxesoptimism (2024): contributed to the smart contracts of Optimism's OP Stack and led Upgrade Proposal #6 (Multi-Chain Prep L1)prime-field-arithmetic (2024): Solidity implementation of finite-field arithmetictransience (2024): Solidity library for transient storage with reentrancy protectionemily (2023): Ethereum protocol for credible commitmentssequencer-commitments (2023): protocol for enforceable commitments from Optimism-style rollup sequencersquark (2022): cash-settled derivatives for non-fungible tokens with on-chain pricingnewsfact (2018): market-based news fact-checkingtotalstories (2017): automated bias detection in published news
Education
- University of Waterloo (2020–2022): Honours Mathematics, Mathematical Physics; on leave
- Harvard University (2019–2020): coursework in mathematics and computer science