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Introduction In my previous article on game-theoretic vulnerabilities in shMONAD bandwidth allocation, I showed how bandwidth staking can create a high-stakes, non-cooperative congestion game where strategic timing (e.g., flash-commit bursts) distorts access to RPC throughput. This follow-up blog on Monad looks at a different chokepoint—price d...

Overview Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) isn’t inherently bad; the way it’s competed for is. When extractors rush, spam, and reorder to capture value, they impose costs on everyone else, worse prices for takers, adverse selection for LPs, congestion and failed transactions for bystanders, and a latency arms race that wastes real resources. A Pi...

Abstract Blockchain transaction fee markets have long been plagued by volatile fees, rampant overpayment, and under-utilized block capacity. Legacy first-price auctions force users into a painful guessing game, while EIP-1559’s base-fee mechanism, though an improvement, introduces algorithmic oscillations and is vulnerable to miner exploits. Thi...

Introduction Imagine you’re running a high-frequency trading system that relies on guaranteed RPC throughput. One morning, a flash-commit bot stakes a massive amount of shMON just before the next snapshot, locks up most of the bandwidth for 10 seconds, and your trades miss the market. What happened? shMONAD is an innovative Liquid Staking Toke...

In mid-2025, a widely reported nine-figure loss on Hyperliquid was read less as a failure than as a stress-test passed: a single on-chain venue absorbed institutional-scale taker flow without halting or dislocating, signaling that CEX-grade liquidity and performance had arrived on-chain. The episode—and Hyperliquid’s rapid growth that followed—e...

WIP - WORK IN PROGRESS Overview Over the past eighteen months a new class of tokens—yield‑bearing stablecoins (YBSs)—has grown from proof‑of‑concept into a $5.8 billion funding channel for both decentralized and traditional credit markets. Unlike legacy stablecoins whose utility derives solely from price stability, YBSs attach a cash‑flow eng...

Cryptocurrency exchanges love to flaunt big volumes. But as every market microstructure study reminds us, what really shapes an exchange’s long‐term influence is price discovery—the capacity to incorporate fresh information faster than competitors. In the case of Bitcoin, recent evidence shows that perpetual swaps, despite high notional volumes,...

Introduction What happens when a single trader’s “galaxy-brain” exploit targets a decentralized exchange? On March 27, 2025, Hyperliquid found out the hard way. A manipulated short position on the JELLY token forced its USD 230 Million liquidity pool (HLP) into a USD 12 Million paper loss—nearly destabilizing the entire platform. This two-part ...