Papers

Auctions

Optimal Auction Design, R. Myerson

  • Finding a set of auctions which optimize seller's utility in Nash Equilibrium

Credible Mechanisms, Akbarpour et al.

  • Defining credible mechanisms: incentive compatible for the auctioneer to follow the rules

Multiparty Computation

How to Play Any Mental Game, Goldreich et al.

  • Algorithm for solving for every multi-party protocol

Limits on the Security of Coin Flips When Half the Processors are Faulty, R. Cleve

  • Fair MPC can't be achieved when half the parties are dishonest

Fairness in an Unfair World: Fair Multiparty Computation from Public Bulletin Boards, Choudhuri et al.

  • Fairness can be achieved when half the parties are dishonest when posting output to a public bulletin

Miner Extractable Value (MEV)

Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning in Decentralized Exchanges, Miner Extractable Value, and Consensus Instability, Daian et al.

  • Overview of MEV, priotrity gas auctions (PGAs) and the risks they pose on blockchains

DeFi

Replicating Market Makers, Angeris et al.

  • Replicating different portfolio values with liquidity provider positions in automated market makers

Consensus

Narwhal and Tusk: A DAG-based Mempool and Efficient BFT Consensus

  • Fast and high throughput blockchain design through separating out DAG-based mempool generation and consensus