Why Your Auction Mechanism Might Be Vulnerable to Collusion
5 Aug 2025
Explore how auction mechanisms hold up under collusion, comparing SCP variants and OCA-proofness with concrete counterexamples and bidding strategies.
How Bidding Rule Metadata Could Reinvent Blockchain Incentives
5 Aug 2025
Unlocking truth-telling in blockchain bidding rules—Theorem 8.2 proves you can stay truthful without changing outcomes.
Static Revelation Principle for Transaction Fee Mechanisms
4 Aug 2025
How can blockchain bidding be made honest and collusion-proof? Enter the static revelation principle for transaction fee mechanisms.
How to Circumvent Impossibility Theorems in Blockchain Mechanism Design
4 Aug 2025
How to bypass blockchain mechanism impossibilities using relaxed constraints, cryptography, and clever incentive models.
UIC, MIC, and OCA Walk Into a Bar… and Break Mechanism Design
4 Aug 2025
A mathematical proof shows why no truthful mechanism can satisfy UIC, MIC, and OCA-proofness simultaneously in transaction fee markets.
The Impossibility Theorem Behind Truthful Blockchain Bidding Mechanisms
3 Aug 2025
UIC, MIC, and Global SCP can’t all coexist in finite-block blockchain bidding mechanisms. This article shows why—with formal proofs to back it up.
No Blockchain Auction Can Satisfy UIC, MIC, and Global SCP at Once
3 Aug 2025
No blockchain auction mechanism can satisfy UIC, MIC, and global SCP at once—this paper proves why, even with randomness.
What Is a Transaction Fee Mechanism? Definitions, Incentives, and Strategies
3 Aug 2025
Explore the mechanics of blockchain transaction fees, miner incentives, fake bids, and how social welfare is calculated in decentralized systems.
Why No Transaction Fee Mechanism Can Truly Be Collusion-Proof
3 Aug 2025
Your cheat sheet to understanding incentive-compatibility in transaction fee mechanisms—UIC, MIC, SCP, and the limits of truthfulness.