Paradigm
Dave White
Research Partner

Dave White

Dave White is a Research Partner at Paradigm. Previously, Dave was a quantitative trader and researcher at firms including Headlands, Two Sigma, and Cutler Group. He is three credits shy of an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University.

Written by Dave

From Staking to Restaking

Introducing Symbiotic, a generalized, permissionless protocol providing shared security through restaking. []

by Arjun Balaji, Dave White, Georgios Konstantopoulos on Jun 11, 2024

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

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

Open Sourcing the Art Gobblers Smart Contracts

Today, we’re excited to announce that the Art Gobblers smart contracts are open source and available on our Github repo. []

by Frankie, Transmissions11, Dave White, Justin Roiland on Sep 20, 2022

Art Gobblers

Art Gobblers is a decentralized art factory owned by aliens. As artists make cool art, Gobblers gains cultural relevance, making collectors want the art more, incentivizing artists to make cooler art. It's also an on-chain game. []

by Dave White, Frankie, Transmissions11 on Sep 13, 2022

GOO (Gradual Ownership Optimization)

GOO aligns fungible and non-fungible token incentives. []

by Dave White, Frankie, Transmissions11 on Sep 06, 2022

Variable Rate GDAs

Variable Rate GDAs (VRGDAs) enable selling tokens close to a targeted schedule by adjusting prices as sales get ahead of/behind it. []

by Transmissions11, Frankie, Dave White on Aug 24, 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

Constant Rate Issuance Sales Protocol

Introduction This paper introduces the Constant Rate Issuance Sales Protocol, or CRISP, a pricing mechanism that aims to sell NFTs at a targeted rate over time. If we want to sell 100 []

by Dave White, Frankie, Justin Roiland on Jan 25, 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