The research arm of Nethermind

This paper introduces a novel DEX design, termed COMMON, that addresses these two predominant challenges. COMMON operates as an order book, natively integrated with a shielded token pool, thus providing anonymity to its users.

In the Nethermind Cryptography Research team, we have recently delved into analyzing the security of some SNARKs that are built on top of the FRI protocol. This emerging trend has seen numerous prominent projects utilizing some variation of the ethSTARK protocol or of Plonk compiled with FRI.

We propose a univariate sumcheck argument count of essentially optimal communication efficiency of one group element.

This is a more technical blog post introducing algebraic geometry codes over curves. It assumes some level of familiarity with ring and field theory, as well as vector spaces over fields.

We’re excited to announce that a new partner has joined the journey of developing the best-in-class privacy framework—Aleph Zero’s Liminal. Nethermind will join Cardinal Cryptography, Aleph Zero’s core research and development team, in efforts to further build out the ZK- and MPC-powered privacy layer.

Our proposals aim to (1) improve liquidity on dYdX Chain markets, (2) increase the attractiveness of the DYDX token, and (3) encourage holding and staking DYDX, all with a view to increasing the security of the dYdX Chain and driving sustainable growth in the dYdX ecosystem.

Nethermind Research has investigated the methods for efficiently pricing VTs using a fixed price mechanism. We did not research auction mechanisms, as there were concerns from Puffer that an auction-based approach could lead to protocol centralization and validators being priced out of the system.

This research article presents a comprehensive framework for quantifying security requirements and exploring restaking implementation in shared sequencers.

Rocket Pool has witnessed remarkable growth since the Shapella upgrade. However, despite the rise in Node Operators (NO), the price of RPL and the quantity of staked RPL tokens have not increased as much as expected.

The STEP committee comprising @GFXlabs , @northlakeslegal , @Nethermind , @steakhouse and @karpatkey , with the Arbitrum Treasury and Sustainability Group as nonvoting facilitating member, have come to consensus on recommended allocations between selected products

We answer the question of “Are preconfirmation protocols expected to be economically viable for proposers to run?”.

We propose multi-round MEV-Boost, a modification of MEV-Boost that enables based preconfirmations by running multiple rounds of MEV-Boost auctions within a single slot. This approach inherits the L1 PBS pipeline and mitigates the negative externalities of based preconfirmations as a result.

Decentralized preconfirmers come with significant tradeoffs that will likely make them impractical for the forseeable future. The preconfirmation sauna creates a repeated game amongst permissionless preconfirmers…

This research analyzes a simple "strawman" preconfirmation setup, identifying its shortcomings and highlighting challenges that future solutions must address to mitigate negative externalities.

This document outlines a protocol which allows for based preconfirmations, while ensuring the based rollup captures much of the value generated from block building.

This post reviews two popular digital signature schemes, along with their Threshold Signature Scheme (TSS) versions.

Although staking is used in multiple proof-of-stake networks, this article focuses solely on Ethereum. We will briefly discuss other types of staking, but our main area of interest is the various flavors of liquid staking.

In this post, we discuss the notion of Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols.

This article introduces Distributed Key Generation (DKG) protocols and one of its fundamental building blocks: Verifiable Secret Sharing (VSS) schemes.

In this blogpost, I will explain how to use Shamir's secret sharing to securely share mnemonic keys which are often used to secure cryptocurrency wallets.