Jonah Burian
venture investor
lower case “r” researcher
& creator of internet commune
Blog Posts
- Polymarket: Truth in an Epistemic Crisis
- The Kids Are Cracked
- Breaking down Solana & Ethereum
- The Disintermediation Crisis: How Ethereum Surrendered Its Most Valuable Asset & How to Get It Back
- How to Capture Value: A case study on why distribution can determine market power
- Execution Auctions as an Alternative to Execution Tickets
- Economic Analysis of Execution Tickets
- Censorship Insurance Markets for BRAID
- User-defined Penalties: Ensuring Honest Preconf Behavior
- Compensating Mispricing Risk
- Unleashing Bitcoin’s Potential with QED
- Beyond Price Appreciation: An Intro to Blockchain for Newcomers
- Crypto’s New Call: The Growth and Evolution of Derivatives Markets
Speeches/Panels/Podcasts
- The Rollup TV: June 16th 2025
- Your Product Doesnt Matter @ Building Blocks 25 in Tel Aviv
- Who Controls the Fate of Ethereum? Async House @ ETHDenver in Denver with Avi Zurlo (CEO of =NIL)
- ZK on POW chains @ Stanford's BASS in Denver with Carter Feldman (CEO of QED)
- Panel on Ethereum's Northstar @
Columbia University CryptoEconomics (CCE) Workshop 2024 in New York
with Justin Drake, Dankrad Feist, Jon Charbonneau, Max Reznick & me (Note: I join at 24:50) - Can we fix MEV? @ DevCon SEA in Bangkoks
- Protocol MEV Capture @ Modular Summit 3.0 in Brussles
Articles I Helped With
- Agent-based Simulation of Execution Tickets
- Proposers do play dice: Introducing random Execution Auctions (randEAs)
- Inelastic vs. Elastic Supply: Why Proof of Stake Could Be Less Centralizing Than Execution Tickets
- On Block Space Distribution Mechanisms
- Introducing OneBalance
- Execution Tickets
- DePIN: An Economic Framework for Technological Enablement
- Make L2s Scale Again
- EVIntent - Darkmatter in MEV