Publications

Timing Games in Responsive Consensus Protocols

ACM CCS 2026

Kaya Alpturer, Kushal Babel, Aditya Saraf

MonadBFT: Fast, Responsive, Fork-Resistant Streamlined Consensus

DISC 2026

Mohammad Mussadiq Jalalzai, Kushal Babel, Jovan Komatovic, Tobias Klenze, Sourav Das, Fatima Elsheimy, Mike Setrin, John Bergschneider, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye

TALK AT SBC BLOG: MonadBFT BLOG: MonadBFT UPDATE

EVM Workloads in the Wild: Evidence for Multi-Dimensional Gas Metering, State Growth, Delayed Execution, and Parallelism

AFT 2026

Lioba Heimbach, Kushal Babel, Jason Milionis

TALK AT MEV-SBC TALK AT EthCC BLOG

Floor-IT: Information-Theoretic BFT in Partial Synchrony with Two Round Good Case Latency and Optimal Resilience

Ittai Abraham, Yuval Efron, Jovan Komatovic, Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa

Ordering by Unanimity: Giving Applications Sequencing Rights Without Breaking Composability

Forget-IT: Optimal Good-Case Latency For Information-Theoretic BFT

ACM PODC 2026

Ittai Abraham, Sourav Das, Yuval Efron, Jovan Komatovic

Talks

Talking Privacy, MEV Attacks, BTX and the Monad Tech with the Expert

Babak Gilkalaye

May 13, 2026

Save 10x On Gas on Monad

April 29, 2026

Trading at the Speed of Light

April 23, 2026

Optimistic MEV in Ethereum Layer 2s: Why Blockspace Is Always in Demand

January 7, 2026

Paradigm Frontiers - MonadBFT

August 8, 2025

How Things Work #3: Scaling Broadcast with Raptor Codes

Kushal Babel, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye

June 3, 2025