Dave White
Dave White is a Research Partner at Paradigm. Previously, Dave was a quantitative trader and researcher at firms including Headlands, Two Sigma, and Cutler Group. He is three credits shy of an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University.
Leaderless Auctions
Leaderless Auctions are decentralized auctions with no auctioneer. They address the “last look” problem that can emerge when one participant is allowed to act after all others. [→]
by Dave White, Dan Robinson, Ludwig Thouvenin, Karthik Srinivasan on Feb 13, 2024
Open Sourcing the Art Gobblers Smart Contracts
Today, we’re excited to announce that the Art Gobblers smart contracts are open source and available on our Github repo. [→]
by Frankie, Transmissions11, Dave White, Justin Roiland on Sep 20, 2022
Art Gobblers
Art Gobblers is a decentralized art factory owned by aliens. As artists make cool art, Gobblers gains cultural relevance, making collectors want the art more, incentivizing artists to make cooler art. It's also an on-chain game. [→]
by Dave White, Frankie, Transmissions11 on Sep 13, 2022
GOO (Gradual Ownership Optimization)
GOO aligns fungible and non-fungible token incentives. [→]
by Dave White, Frankie, Transmissions11 on Sep 06, 2022
Variable Rate GDAs
Variable Rate GDAs (VRGDAs) enable selling tokens close to a targeted schedule by adjusting prices as sales get ahead of/behind it. [→]
by Transmissions11, Frankie, Dave White on Aug 24, 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
Constant Rate Issuance Sales Protocol
Introduction This paper introduces the Constant Rate Issuance Sales Protocol, or CRISP, a pricing mechanism that aims to sell NFTs at a targeted rate over time. If we want to sell 100 [→]
by Dave White, Frankie, Justin Roiland on Jan 25, 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
Martingale Shares
Summary This paper introduces a new NFT primitive: Martingale shares, or "Mortys." Mortys are synthetics representing fractional ownership of classes of NFTs. They do not require buyouts or oracles, but instead rely on [→]
by Dave White on Sep 14, 2021
Floor Perps
Overview This paper introduces the floor perpetual, a synthetic NFT that tracks the floor price of a given project and can be minted by locking up NFTs from that project. Floor perpetuals [→]
by Dave White on Aug 31, 2021