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I have recently taken on my new role as team lead of the Robust Incentives Group (RIG) and I am truly excited to continue pushing Ethereum forward together with our incredible team: @julianma @soispoke @anderselowsson @davidecrapis. A quick note on what do at RIG and some of our latest research: At RIG, we study Ethereum’s protocol architecture and mechanisms through the lens of game theory, mechanism design, using formal methods, and empirical analysis. While our work has an economic focus, it is inherently interdisciplinary—drawing insights from economics, computer science, cryptography, distributed systems, and beyond. We work and collaborate across these fields to find ways to improve Ethereum, balancing long-term foundational research with practical proposals for mainnet upgrades—biasing towards the latter. Our goal: mechanisms that are rigorous and practical.
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Here’s a look at our current main themes (links to resources in tweets below): (1) CL—"Future of staking": Ensuring Ethereum's long-term economic robustness and mitigating centralization risks via: (1.1) FOCIL: Ethereum must remain censorship resistant. @soispoke is relentlessly pushing EIP-7805 to mainnet, while work continues on incentivized and privacy-preserving FOCIL versions with @julianma, @fradamt, @barnabe, and others. (1.2) APS: By separating execution proposing from consensus duties, APS helps control timing games and enables a viable MEV burn construction. @julianma is tackling open questions to move APS towards implementation.
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(1.3) Rainbow staking: @barnabe's idea takes the philosophy of u n b u n d l i n g even further. Division of labour for nodes of Ethereum means we can do separate things more optimally, like providing censorship-resistance, increasing throughput, or defending the consensus layer. This is top of mind across RIG and EFR more broadly. (1.4) Issuance: High levels of stake participation have significant externalities. Research on Ethereum’s issuance curve, spearheaded by @anderselowsson for years, now includes @ansgar.eth, myself, and more recently @justindrake.
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