Shresth Agrawal

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I'm a blockchain developer, researcher, and entrepreneur.

I am building pod and serve as an advisor to Common Prefix. I am also a master's student at the Technical University of Munich.
My research interests are in algorithm design, cryptography, blockchains, consensus protocols, zero-knowledge proofs, and decentralized finance.

Research

Proofs of Proof-of-Stake with Sublinear Complexity
Shresth Agrawal*, Joachim Neu*, Ertem Nusret Tas*, Dionysis Zindros*
Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT'23), October 2023 at Princeton University
[doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.AFT.2023.14] [eprint:2022/1642] [benchmarks] [talk]

Open Source Projects

Kevlar and Patronum: First light (and superlight) client for Ethereum. [X thread]

LearnP2P: Interactive tutorial to build a chat application using Libp2pJs.
ParaSwap DexLib: Library to interact with 100+ DEXs through a single interface.

Audits & Technical Reports

Espresso Turbo-PLONK verifier and BN254 lib
Mysten Labs Fastcrypto: Pedersen DKG and tBLS, ECDSA Secp256r1, BLS12-381 group, Groth16, ECDSA Secp256k1, BLS12-381 signature, and ECVRF & Ristretto255.
On-chain Ethereum light client on Axelar

Talks

Do we need consensus? at BASS 2024
Pitfalls & optimization for modern cryptographic implementations at zkSummit11 2024
Proofs of Proof-of-Stake at AFT'23 and Protocol Labs Research ConsensusDays 2023
A walkthrough of different generation DEXs and AMMs at EthCC Paris 2021.
Building Cross Chain Arbitrage Bot at Eth Global 2021.
Production-grade smart contract development at Stanford University.

Previously

Paradigm fellow