Fahad Saleh
@cryptoeconprof
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Emerson/Merrill Lynch Professor @UF. Advisor @CUSEAS CDFT. FinTech Fellow @CornellMBA. Co-Organizer for CBER Forum. PhD @NYUStern MSc @Columbia BSc @CornellEng.
Joined August 2021
🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 @camharvey @DukeFuqua, Ruslan @uniofwarwick and I provide an economic model to examine the L1-L2 interaction. Check out the paper at https://t.co/vZwrA1YNBP TLDR: If developer activity focuses disproportionately on improving L2s (e.g., EIP-4844), then TVL
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Changes happening at the SEC! Inspired choice, very, very competent scholar! (Sadly, already off X, I think.) https://t.co/NFQzlaEqyy
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BREAKING: 🇺🇸 CFTC announces pilot program for Bitcoin to be used as collateral in derivatives markets 👀
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This CFP system is so screwed up that it made people care about Duke football in December... Why give automatic CFP berths to five conferences when only two conferences have enough depth to ensure that the champion would actually be competitive in the playoff??
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🚨 PSA: There is an ongoing issue with the Prysm consensus client on mainnet. If you are running Prysm, you will need to reconfigure your CL node as per the linked tweet. If you are running another client, you are not affected and no action is required.
🚨 We have identified the issue and have a quick workaround. All nodes should disable Prysm to unnecessarily generate old states to process outdated attestation. To do this, simply add the following flag to your beacon node. This flag works with v7.0.0 and you do not need to
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💡 The DAO design principle you need to know: Short term opportunism vs. Long term commitment New research found the danger zone: when whales are big enough to control votes, but not big enough to lose much if things go wrong. 📊 The fix? Force long term commitment: - Token
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Good question...
Can anybody explain how ETH, the asset, economically benefits from Lighter? All of Lighter's TVL is held in USDC, so it doesn't extend the moneyness of ETH. Additionally, Lighter pays only ~$685 in onchain costs to Ethereum per day ($250K annualized). Lighter is accounting
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The next episode of 'From Whiteboard to Mainnet' is tomorrow at 2pm UTC. Dive into all things DAO Governance with: - Jungsuk Han @SeoulNatlUni - Jongsub Lee @SeoulNatlUni - Tao Li @UF & @mathemagicianMZ Co-hosted by @cryptoeconprof & @theobtl
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I'm confused... - in Argentina almost full month - visited 150+ shops, bars & restaurants - not a SINGLE "crypto accepted here" Adoption where?
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The SEC went from blocking crypto to opening doors. Commissioner Hester Peirce explains the shift and warns crypto builders not to waste this opportunity: "If you don't build good things, a new administration will come in and say, we don't see any value here and we'll be back
SPECIAL EP: America's Crypto Regulatory Reset with SEC Commissioner @HesterPeirce. Rob and Andy interviewed @SECGov Commissioner Hester Peirce about why 2025 marks the line in the sand for crypto regulation in America. After years of regulation through enforcement, the table is
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Plot twist: Illiquidity might actually be GOOD for DAOs Sounds backwards, right? Here's why it matters: In traditional finance, liquidity = good. Easy trading = efficient markets. But in DAOs? Illiquidity creates a natural shield against whale attacks. 🛡️ When it's costly for
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Just a year after the community started pushing for higher gas limits, Ethereum is now running with a 60M block gas limit. That’s a 2× increase in a single year — and it’s only the beginning. H/t to all client teams, the researchers involved, and to @nanexcool and @econoar for
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This is akin to selecting a math teacher between Alice and Bob. Alice has a math PhD, whereas Bob stayed in a Holiday Inn last night…
Would you rather have your kid learn math from someone with a math PhD, or someone with a PhD in math education
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🎙️ NEW PODCAST: Crafting the Crypto Economy Ever wondered why some DAOs thrive while others get hijacked by whales? 🐋 PS: A "whale" is someone who owns a LOT of tokens and in DAO’s, decisions are made by voting with tokens instead of traditional shares. Join Professors Fahad
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
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Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, wants to examine how the nation’s largest bank handled the reporting of more than $1 billion in suspicious transactions.
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Vitalik Buterin: FTX is a counterexample opposed to Ethereum's principles. On November 17 at Devconnect ARG, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin used FTX as an example to illustrate the core difference between centralized "companies" and decentralized "communities." FTX relied
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@alpeh_v Privacy is not a feature. Privacy is hygiene.
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Econ seminar style is great except when the presenter is so focused on the paper’s publication prospects that they do not engage honestly with the underlying question once the methodology is scrutinized. The best seminars are those where speakers acknowledge the limits of their
Econ seminars are great. In other seminars people sit in silence, then wander off whispering "that was idiotic." In Econ, you learn right away what the weak points are, and what people misunderstand and you need to explain better. Sure some noise but lots of signal.
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“Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.” Terence Tao
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