Dan Robinson
Dan Robinson is a General Partner at Paradigm, focused on crypto investments and research into open-source protocols. Previously, Dan was a protocol researcher at Interstellar. Before Interstellar, Dan practiced as a litigation attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an A.B. from Harvard University.
Priority Is All You Need
In this post, we introduce MEV taxes, a mechanism that arbitrary applications can use to capture their own MEV. This mechanism could be used today on OP Stack L2s like OP Mainnet, Base, and Blast, because the block proposers on those chains follow a set of rules we call competitive priority ordering. [→]
by Dan Robinson, Dave White on Jun 04, 2024
Everything Is A Perp
Power perps are assets that target the power of an index price. It’s a fun rabbit hole to go down. The longer you think about power perps, the more you see how everything resembles a power perp. [→]
by Joe Clark, Andrew Leone, Dan Robinson on Mar 06, 2024
Leaderless Auctions
Leaderless Auctions are decentralized auctions with no auctioneer. They address the “last look” problem that can emerge when one participant is allowed to act after all others. [→]
by Dave White, Dan Robinson, Ludwig Thouvenin, Karthik Srinivasan on Feb 13, 2024
Collaborate with Paradigm
Paradigm is a group of builders that supports other builders. Some of our most fruitful collaborations involve deep work with entrepreneurial teams to solve important business and research problems. [→]
by Matt Huang, Georgios Konstantopoulos, Dan Robinson on Jul 25, 2023
Blend: Perpetual Lending With NFT Collateral
Blend is a peer-to-peer perpetual lending protocol that enables lending against arbitrary collateral with no oracle dependencies. [→]
by Galaga, Pacman, Toad, Dan Robinson, Transmissions11 on May 01, 2023
Base Layer Neutrality
With this analysis, we hope to ease uncertainty plaguing industry actors and provide clarity around the scope of sanctions compliance obligations. [→]
by rodrigoseira, amyaixizhang, Dan Robinson on Sep 08, 2022
Paradigm Fellowship
At Paradigm, we want to work with the brightest minds in crypto. The Paradigm Fellowship is for that next generation of crypto talent. [→]
by Matt Huang, Fred Ehrsam, Dan Robinson, Doug Feagin on May 25, 2022
The Dominance of Uniswap v3 Liquidity
New research published today shows that Uniswap Protocol v3 has deeper liquidity in ETH/USD, ETH/BTC and other ETH pairs than leading centralized exchanges. This research demonstrates that AMM market structure [→]
by Gordon Liao, Dan Robinson on May 05, 2022
Gradual Dutch Auctions
This paper introduces the Gradual Dutch Auction, or GDA, a mechanism that enables efficient sales of assets that do not have liquid markets. [→]
by Frankie, Dan Robinson, Dave White, andy8052 on Apr 04, 2022
RICKS
Introduction This paper introduces a new NFT fractionalization primitive: RICKS (Recurrently Issued Collectively Kept Shards). When you fractionalize an NFT into RICKS, the protocol mints new shards at a constant rate — [→]
by Dave White, andy8052, Dan Robinson on Oct 06, 2021