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Paradigm
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Paradigm is the company blog at research.paradigm.xyz, writing about economics and business. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “(Almost) Everything you need to know about Optimistic Rollup”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite Paradigm research on Ethereum staking and its risks, such as liquid staking derivatives and centralisation, around the Ethereum Merge. The comments use it as a source and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Read Paradigm essays, announcements, research, policy analysis, and technical writing on crypto, AI, markets, and frontier technology.
Most-linked posts?
- (Almost) Everything you need to know about Optimistic Rollup3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-27
- MEV and Me2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-14
What Hacker News says?
There’s already a bunch of delegated staking options for ETH2, including Lido, RocketPool and Coinbase.[1] Once withdraws are enabled this landscape may change. There is a lot more work that needs to be done to improve decentralized staking pools, if they continue to expand they can consume large percentage of the total staked Eth with less concern than centralized staking services like Coinbase. One of the big prob…
Comment linking /staking
on “Mainnet Merge Announcement”Submitted Understanding Automated Market-Makers, Part 1: Price Impact as a story · 3 points
HN discussionQuite surprised at this comment. The reason I got into blockchain was _because_ of the incredibly difficult technical challenges it poses. Among the few I get to work on: - How to implement robust p2p networking algorithms for sharding in a distributed system such as Ethereum (a very deep rabbit hole), as Ethereum is migrating to a "sharded" architecture - How to solve the "data availability problem" https://github.…
Comment linking /MEV
on “Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme”Submitted Uniswap's Financial Alchemy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe main risks are around liquid staking derivatives and centralization to a specific centralized staking service or pool. See here: https://notes.ethereum.org/@djrtwo/risks-of-lsd https://research.paradigm.xyz/staking Another area that is new and can be biased is RANDAO: https://eth2book.info/altair/part2/building_blocks/randomnes... There are probably going to be several issues that will arise during and after mer…
Comment linking /staking
on “Ask HN: Ethereum and “the merge”: what could go wrong?”Submitted MEV and Me as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted (Almost) Everything you need to know about Optimistic Rollup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted (Almost) Everything you need to know about Optimistic Rollup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted (Almost) Everything you need to know about Optimistic Rollup as a story · 1 points
HN discussion