Private API Credits: A Simple Construction
A construction for privacy-preserving API authentication using blind signatures and Privacy Pass, removing the link between API keys and user identity.
·by mempirate·#privacy #cryptography
Research and development notes from the Chainbound team.
A construction for privacy-preserving API authentication using blind signatures and Privacy Pass, removing the link between API keys and user identity.
An experiment in using Claude Opus 4.5 to one-shot a production-ready Ethereum EL and CL JSON-RPC proxy with automatic failover.
How we built a Rust library for network emulation using Linux namespaces to test msg-rs under realistic conditions with latency, jitter, and packet loss.
Our second collaboration with Flashbots on FlowProxy, featuring network analysis of bundle losses and latencies, plus transport layer optimizations for BuilderNet.
Analyzing key Ethereum network metrics to measure the impact of PeerDAS and increasing blob counts on block latency, attestation rates, and orphan rates.
How we collaborated with Flashbots to build a new orderflow proxy in Rust for BuilderNet, reducing E2E latency and increasing observability.
A proposal to separate blob data dissemination from consensus in Ethereum, enabling distributed blob publishing through delegated attestations and lightweight DA certificates.
Chainbound's take on the priority EIPs for Ethereum's Glamsterdam hard-fork, focusing on L1 scaling and censorship resistance.
Mechanisms to enforce timeliness and non-extractive ordering for decentralized L2 sequencers using VDFs, without relying on additional consensus.
Research funded by the Ethereum Foundation on estimating the geographical distribution of Ethereum validators using P2P network data.