Someone was asking for a bear market reading list. If you want to brush up on your crypto foundations, here's my all-time Crypto White Paper / Academic Paper Tier List: S: * Bitcoin (2008) * Ethereum (2014) * Augur (2015) * Flash Boys 2.0 (2019) * Truebit (2017) * Uniswap v2 (2019) * Uniswap v3 (2021) * Zerocash (2014) A: * Avalanche Consensus (2018) * Cosmos (2017) * Constant Function Market Makers (2021) * Eigenlayer (2023) * MakerDAO (2017) * Tornado Cash (2019) B: * Arbitrum (2018) * Lightning Network (2016) * Filecoin (2017) * HotStuff (2018) C: * 0x Protocol (2017) * The DAO (2016) * Verifiable Delay Functions (2018) Thoughts? Any classics I'm missing here?

Groth16 (2016), PLONK (2019) two notable mentions for the cryptography-inclined Also missed Block-STM (2022) for parallelized execution!

Notable mentions: Groth16 (2016), PLONK (2019) for the ZKP cryptography-inclined EIP-1559 (2019) for modern blockchain fee auction mechanics Also Block-STM (2022) for parallelized execution