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Protocol Researcher

Posted 2024-11-13

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📍 Location: 66+ countries

🔍 Industry: Decentralized systems, blockchain

🏢 Company: Nethermind

Requirements:
  • Strong understanding of distributed protocol design with the ability to identify trade-offs faced by protocols deployed on blockchains.
  • Ability to identify mechanism design problems and propose solutions.
  • Familiarity with Ethereum and its workings.
  • Familiarity with various designs of L2s.
  • Ability to express thoughts precisely.
Responsibilities:
  • Participate in research on L2 designs including prover coordination, decentralization, incentivization, and governance.
  • Analyze levels of finality and auctioning the right to build a block.
  • Explore various staking flavors and systemic risks.
  • Study consensus algorithms and their trade-offs.
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