Research

• Delegated Underwriting (2026): unsecured lending without collateral, identity checks, or centralized underwriting
• SOLO (2024): lowers solo Ethereum validator capital from 32 ETH to 1.25 ETH
• Commitment-Satisfaction Committees (2023): Ethereum attester committees that verify whether block proposers kept their commitments; solves 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

Open Source

• sandwich-mitigating-uniswap-v2 (2024): Uniswap V2 fork with sequencing rules that block profitable sandwich attacks
• mev-tax (2024): Solidity library for capturing MEV via priority-fee taxes
• optimism (2024): contributed to the smart contracts of Optimism's OP Stack; led Upgrade #6 Multi-Chain Prep (MCP) L1
• prime-field-arithmetic (2024): secp256k1 finite-field arithmetic for Solidity
• transience (2024): transient-storage library for reentrancy-safe smart contracts
• emily (2023): Ethereum protocol for credible commitments
• sequencer-commitments (2023): protocol for enforceable commitments from Optimism-style rollup sequencers
• quark (2022): cash-settled derivatives for non-fungible tokens with on-chain pricing
• newsfact (2018): market-based news fact-checking

Recognition

• Paradigm Fellowship (2024)
• Interact Fellowship (2021)
• MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (2020)

Education

• University of Waterloo (2020-2023): Honours Mathematics, Mathematical Physics; on leave
• Harvard University (2019-2020): mathematics and computer science coursework