- Publications & Talks

Publications

Forget-IT: Optimal Good-Case Latency For Information-Theoretic BFT

Ittai Abraham, Sourav Das, Yuval Efron, Jovan Komatovic

IACR ePrint | May 2026

BTX : Simple and Efficient Batch Threshold Encryption

Amit Agarwal, Sourav Das, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye, Peter Rindal, and Victor Shoup

IACR ePrint | April 2026

Blockspace Under Pressure: An Analysis of Spam MEV on High-Throughput Blockchains

Wenhao Wang, Aditya Saraf, Lioba Heimbach, Kushal Babel, Fan Zhang

ArXiv Preprint | March 2026

Optimal Threshold Traitor Tracing

Sourav Das, Pratish Datta, Aditi Partap, Swagata Sasmal, Mark Zhandry

IACR ePrint | November 2025

Multiple Sides of 36 Coins: Measuring Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure Across Cryptocurrencies

Lucianna Kiffer, Lioba Heimbach, Dennis Trautwein, Yann Vonlanthen, Oliver Gasser

ACM Sigmetrics 2026 | November 2025

MonadBFT: Fast, Responsive, Fork-Resistant Streamlined Consensus

Mohammad Mussadiq Jalalzai, Kushal Babel, Jovan Komatovic, Tobias Klenze, Sourav Das, Fatima Elsheimy, Mike Setrin, John Bergschneider, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye

ArXiv Preprint | November 2025

Talks

Talking Privacy, MEV Attacks, BTX and the Monad Tech with the Expert

Babak Gilkalaye

May 13, 2026

Save 10x On Gas on Monad

April 29, 2026

Trading at the peed of Light

April 23, 2026

EVM Workloads in the Wild: Measuring Gas, State Growth, and State Sensitivity

April 2, 2026

Optimistic MEV in Ethereum Layer 2s: Why Blockspace Is Always in Demand

January 7, 2026

Paradigm Frontiers - MonadBFT

August 8, 2025

How Things Work #3: Scaling Broadcast with Raptor Codes

Kushal Babel, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye

June 3, 2025