Publications

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

Weighted Batched Threshold Encryption with Applications to Mempool Privacy

Amit Agarwal, Kushal Babel, Sourav Das, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye, Arup Mondal, Benny Pinkas, Peter Rindal, Aayush Yadav

IEEE S&P 2025

Time-Lock Encrypted Storage for Blockchains

Amit Agarwal, Kushal Babel, Sourav Das, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye

Timing Games in Responsive Consensus Protocols

Kaya Alpturer, Kushal Babel, Aditya Saraf

ACM CCS 2025

Protocols to Code: Formal Verification of a Secure Next-Generation Internet Router

João Pereira, Tobias Klenze, Sofia Giampietro, Markus Limbeck, Dionysios Spiliopoulos, Felix Wolf, Marco Eilers, Christoph Sprenger, David Basin, Peter Müller, Adrian Perrig

ACM Conference on CCS 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 Speed 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