Table of Contents

• Econ & Game Theory
• Theoretical and Applied Cryptography
• Consensus/Protocol
• Networking & P2P
• Client Engineering
• Security
• Formal Verification
• Humanities

Econ & Game Theory

Relevant fields include mechanism design, algorithmic game theory, econometrics, market microstructure, consensus mechanisms, learning, finance.

Resources

• We strongly encourage applicants to survey current discussions such as the latest Columbia Cryptoeconomics workshop, in particular the working sessions.
• Another useful resource to surface relevant, current topics of discussion: Directory of work of Robust Incentives Group.

Research Focus Areas

Staking Economics

• Modeling of Stake Supply
  • Studies that attempts to quantify cost structures of SSPs as well as solo stakers, with the overarching goal of assessing how issuance level affects the composition of the staking set.