Dan Robinson
Dan Robinson is a General Partner and the Head of Research 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.
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 Rodrigo Seira, 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
Power Perpetuals
Introduction This paper introduces a new type of derivative, the power perpetual. If the price of ETH doubles, the ETH^2 power perp 4Xs, the ETH^3 power perp 8Xs, and the ETH^5 power [→]
by Dave White, Dan Robinson, Zubin Koticha, Andrew Leone, Alexis Gauba, Aparna Krishnan on Aug 17, 2021
TWAMM
Introduction This paper introduces a new type of automated market maker, or AMM, that helps traders on Ethereum efficiently execute large orders. We call it the time-weighted average market maker, or TWAMM [→]
by Dave White, Dan Robinson, Hayden Adams on Jul 28, 2021
Uniswap v3: The Universal AMM
Introduction Uniswap v3 (paper) allows liquidity providers to provide custom amounts of liquidity in selected price ranges. This unlocks tremendous capital efficiency gains for liquidity providers who can manually adjust their [→]
by Dan Robinson on Jun 07, 2021
Liquidity Mining on Uniswap v3
Uniswap v3 replaces fungible ERC-20 liquidity positions with non-fungible ERC-721 liquidity positions. Does that mean it no longer supports flexible Uniswap-v2-style liquidity mining? Or that liquidity mining programs will have to [→]
by Dan Robinson on May 18, 2021
A Cosmos Thesis
On Ethereum, all applications run on a shared state machine. In Cosmos, many application-specific blockchains pass assets and other messages between one another. If Ethereum is a mainframe computer, Cosmos [→]
by Charlie Noyes, Dan Robinson on Apr 08, 2021