Staking Economics Panel

Barnabé is a research scientist at the Robust Incentives Group. He has published many fundamental pieces on Proposer-Builder Separation and Principal-Agent problems in the Ethereum protocol.

Brett was previously a general partner and head of blockchain at Interplay managing early stage crypto investments. Prior to that, Brett was a partner and portfolio manager at two quantitative trading firms.

Ethereum Foundation

After finishing his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge, Dankrad Feist worked in Technology since 2013 and co-founded the e-health startup Cara Care in 2016. Starting with more casual contacts with crypto since 2013 he joined the Ethereum Foundation full time in 2019 as a Core Researcher. He has made contributions to Ethereum statelessness, sharding, and especially data availability, with the development of an MPC-friendly proof of custody protocol as well as the new sharding construction "Danksharding" bearing his name.

Davide is a Research Scientist at the Robust Incentives Group within the Ethereum Foundation. Before this, he obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia Business School and spent time at Lyft as a researcher. His current focus is on transaction fee mechanisms, L2 economics and MEV.