Antony Denyer

Over the past few years, Ethereum has adopted rollups as its primary path to scalability. It’s easy to get lost in all the jargon from zk-rollups, optimistic rollups, blobs, sequencers, based rollups, preconfs etc etc. A straightforward idea holds true. [Read More]

TL;DR: Conditional auctions keep the auctioneer in control and reduce bidder risk at the cost of more complex spam checks. In contrast, unconditional auctions are simpler but expose users to the risk of execution failure, increased latency and lack of finality. [Read More]

EIP-4844 introduced “blob transactions” almost over a year ago, specifically aimed at significantly enhancing scalability and efficiency for layer-2 solutions like rollups. Understanding how these transactions are priced is essential for developers, users, and anyone interacting with Ethereum’s economic system. [Read More]

The challenge of space exploration isn’t just rocket science. It’s also a governance problem. And while this might sound like science fiction, it’s also a fun thought experiment about how decentralised governance could scale—literally—to the stars. Imagine a future where a consortium of investors builds a spacecraft to mine asteroids.... [Read More]

In traditional systems, trust often requires synchronous real-time interactions, centralized authorities, or constant availability. Ethereum, however, introduced a new model: asynchronous trust. [Read More]