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Storm Slivkoff

Research Partner

After analyzing Polymarket’s market structure, event data, and smart contracts, we discovered that most Polymarket analyses and dashboards have been mistakenly double-counting volume.

Polymarket Volume Is Being Double-Counted

Justin Slaughter

VP of Regulatory Affairs

Veronica Irwin

No group stands to gain more from crypto access than the unbanked and underbanked.

Bridging the Gap: How Crypto Expands Financial Access for America’s Underbanked

Alex Grieve

VP of Government Affairs

Katie Biber

CLO, Partner

Congress has already spoken on allowing affiliates to issue yield; regulatory agencies cannot alter that decision.

Treasury: When Implementing GENIUS, Follow Congress’s Direction

Dominique Little

Government Affairs Lead

Paradigm responds to the FCA on key priorities for applying their Handbook to cryptoassets, emphasizing that execution of regulatory details will determine U.K.'s crypto leadership success.

Execution Matters: Paradigm's Response to FCA CP25/25

Yesterday, Paradigm filed an amicus brief in KalshiEX LLC v. Martin, a Fourth Circuit case about Maryland’s effort to treat federally regulated swaps as gambling. This isn’t a close call. 


Paradigm Files (Another) Amicus Brief to Oppose State Encroachment on Federal Regulation

The solution to problems associated with illicit finance will be found within crypto itself.


Paradigm joins DEF and SPI in comment to Treasury on how innovative crypto practices can prevent and combat illicit finance

Georgios Konstantopoulos

General Partner & CTO

The Ithaca team is joining Tempo to build the infra needed for Tempo to scale, meet real-world demand, and remain open to everyone.

Ithaca x Tempo

Alison Mangiero, Senior Director, Staking Policy and Industry Affairs, CCI

Unless Congress acts to clarify crypto tax rules, upside from GENIUS and market structure will be capped.

Congress Passed GENIUS. Market Structure Is Next. But Skipping Crypto Tax Would Be a Mistake.

The importance of the CFTC providing targeted regulatory clarity on event contracts and perpetuals with all deliberate speed.

Paradigm’s Response to CFTC Request for Comment

The SEC and CFTC are holding a roundtable to harmonize their rules. We discuss the potential opportunity at hand for financial markets.

Why Close SEC–CFTC Coordination Is Key to Unlocking U.S. Market Innovation

At its core, this lawsuit isn’t really about Uniswap or even about a single patent. It’s about whether anyone should be able to claim ownership over the centuries-old concept of market making, simply because they describe it with an equation and implement it on a blockchain. 

Paradigm Files Amicus Brief Defending Innovation in DeFi

Matt Huang

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

The payments-first blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm

Tempo: The Blockchain Designed for Payments

Paradigm Files Comment with the SEC Crypto Task Force on Equity Market Tokenization

Public Stocks on Public Blockchains: How Do We Get There?

Paradigm files comment to CFTC stressing that any spot crypto trading regime must not disadvantage DeFi.

Paradigm Urges CFTC to Embrace DeFi in Spot Crypto Trading Rules

Dave White

Matt Liston

Introducing opportunity markets, private prediction markets where those who spot opportunities get paid by those who can act on them

Opportunity Markets

Dan Robinson

General Partner

Paradigm’s responses to the Senate Banking Committee’s RFI on market structure legislation.

The Senate Market Structure Approach Is the Best Path Forward

The White House laid out comprehensive steps to spur growth and unlock crypto’s potential in the United States.

A Blueprint for American Crypto Leadership: Breaking Down the White House’s 180-Day Report

Gina Moon

Paradigm files amicus brief in support of Kalshi in KalshiEX LLC v. Flaherty

Paradigm Files Amicus Brief to Oppose State Encroachment on Federal Regulation

The GENIUS Act is now law. What steps do regulators need to take to implement its stablecoin regime?

The GENIUS Act Passed - Now the Real Work Begins

Ricardo de Arruda

Partner, Investing & Research 

Ricardo de Arruda joins Paradigm as an Investment and Research partner. 

Joining Paradigm

Paradigm files amicus brief supporting Michael Lewellen's lawsuit challenging the DOJ's increasingly aggressive use of 18 U.S.C. § 1960 against software developers

Paradigm Files Amicus in Lewellen v. Bondi

Crypto ownership is more than an investment—it’s a signal. Paradigm’s new market mapping exercise explores the voters behind the movement, offering fresh insight into how and why crypto is shaping American politics.

Paradigm Policy Market Mapping Exercise Spring 2025

Alpin Yukseloglu

Partner, Investing & Research

The L1 Dilemma

Paradigm files amicus brief supporting Storm’s proposed jury instructions in United States v. Storm.

Paradigm Files Amicus Brief Supporting Roman Storm

Paradigm responds to the Financial Conduct Authority on the importance of embracing DeFi.

UK Crypto Regulation Must Embrace DeFi: Paradigm Responds to the FCA

Caitlin Pintavorn

We’re excited to announce our third annual Paradigm Fellowship: a program for students, recent grads, and dropouts who are curious techno-optimists – drawn to markets, incentive design, and shaping how money moves online.

Introducing the 2025 Paradigm Fellowship

Sofiane Larbi

A capital efficient mechanism for scaling futarchy.

Quantum Markets

Personal

Ciamac Moallemi

Research Advisor

The future holds a million stablecoins. Today's infrastructure isn't ready.

This paper introduces Orbital, an automated market maker for pools of 2, 3, or 10,000 stablecoins.

Orbital unlocks capital efficiency by bringing concentrated liquidity to unlimited dimensions.

Orbital

Paradigm submits comment to the CFTC on DeFi perpetual derivatives.

DeFi Perps Deserve a Path Forward in the US: Paradigm Responds to the CFTC’s Perpetual Derivatives Request for Comment

Matthias Seitz

Yash Atreya

Arsenii Kulikov

Jennifer Parak

Dani Popes

We’re excited to release Alloy v1.0, our first stable release, reaffirming our commitment to performance, stability, and great developer experience. Alloy is a complete re-write of ethers-rs and builds on years of experience on shipping successful tooling for the Rust Ethereum ecosystem. 

Introducing Alloy v1.0: The simplest, fastest Rust toolkit for the EVM

Addressing capital efficiency in prediction markets by splitting the financial system into parallel universes.

Multiverse Finance

Hart Lambur

Matt Rice

Across Prime introduces a new "bonded" model for trustless cross-chain bridging, which can be more gas and capital efficient than current "escrowed" models.

Across Prime

Mallesh Pai

This paper studies and quantifies one of the fundamental limits to reducing MEV: latency advantages.

Timing Advantages in Onchain Auctions

Alpin Yukseloglu joins Paradigm as an Investment and Research Partner.

Until the Storm case is dropped, all of crypto and every software developer are at risk.

Southern District, Stand Down: Prosecuting Code Is Not Justice

Rodrigo Seira

Paradigm responds to the SEC Crypto Task Force’s questions regarding MEV.

The Key Neutrality of Baselayer Markets

Mallesh Pai joins Paradigm as a Research Advisor.

Joining Paradigm as Research Advisor

Paradigm Policy Team

Our proposed principles for market structure legislation aim to explicitly protect DeFi and early-stage innovators.

Market Structure Legislation Principles

samczsun

There’s more to the DPRK than just Lazarus Group.

Demystifying the North Korean Threat

Our survey of over 300 TradFi participants showed that a majority are excited about DeFi and want regulatory clarity for the space.

TradFi Tomorrow: DeFi and the Rise of Extensible Finance 

Mohammed Tauseef

Software Engineer

Testing - Tauseef scheduled deploy

Testing - auto redeploy on post publish

Testing - auto deploy right now

Roman Krasiuk

Ress is a Stateless Ethereum node implementation in <4K LoC using the Reth SDK.

Ress: Scaling Ethereum with Stateless Reth Nodes

Paradigm’s Policy Anchors guide how we engage on policy matters globally on behalf of our portfolio companies and all of crypto.

Paradigm Policy Anchors

Paradigm Policy releases its Policy Anchors, and adds six new members to its Policy Council.

Introducing Paradigm’s Policy Anchors and New Policy Council Additions

The Reth team’s view on what should happen in Fusaka, Ethereum’s next hard fork after Pectra.

What comes after Ethereum’s Pectra hard fork?

George Niculae

zerosnacks

Foundry, the leading smart contract development framework, releases v1.0.

Announcing: Foundry v1.0.

Jonathan Hurowitz

A primer on the debanking of crypto companies and entrepreneurs in advance of the February 2025 House and Senate hearings on the subject

What You Should Know Before Watching the Congressional Debanking Hearings

Charlie Noyes

Ethereum Acceleration

Paradigm files amicus brief outlining why the mere usage of blockchain technology does not turn digital creations into investment contracts.

Paradigm Files Amicus Supporting NFT Creators’ Lawsuit Against SEC

This paper introduces distribution markets, a new kind of prediction market for events whose outcomes aren't just "yes" or "no" but could be any number.

Instead of betting on a particular outcome or range, traders can express how likely they think each different possibility is across the whole infinite range of outcomes.

Distribution Markets

Paradigm files amicus in case against the CFTC to make sure Americans can access election-related prediction markets

Paradigm Files Amicus to Support Keeping Election Markets in the US

Programmable cryptography enables fun, safe, and intelligent experiences.
Hardware is necessary to achieve programmable cryptography at scale.
How to think about the levels of secure hardware?
Let’s get to Level 5.

The 5 Levels of Secure Hardware

Why the game theory for sovereign adoption of BTC has changed.

Bitcoin for the Sovereign

DaniPopes

A blazingly fast, modular and contributor friendly Solidity compiler, written in Rust

Introducing Solar

Introducing pm-AMM: an automated market maker designed for prediction markets. We introduce a new methodology for deriving AMMs for particular assets, and apply it to prediction market tokens, creating an AMM that may provide more consistent liquidity and reduce the risk of losing everything.

pm-AMM: A Uniform AMM for Prediction Markets

Crypto will matter at the ballot box this November. Our October poll, the last of our election series, confirms it: a surprising percentage of American voters identify themselves as single issue crypto voters.

October 2024 Public Opinion Poll

Paradigm and other investors file amicus brief supporting DEF and Beba's lawsuit against the SEC

Paradigm Provides Amicus Support for DEF and Beba’s Lawsuit Against the SEC 

Sofiane Larbi joins Paradigm as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

Joining Paradigm as an EIR

We are excited to announce Paradigm’s $20M investment in Ithaca, a new company with the mission to accelerate crypto development across the entire stack.

Introducing Ithaca

Hayden Adams

Mark Toda

Alex Karys

Xin Wan

Daniel Gretzke

Eric Zhong

Zach Wong

Daniel Marzec

Robert Miller

Hasu

Karl Floersch

Unichain is an optimistic rollup optimized for efficient markets by delivering fast state updates, offering a framework for applications to internalize MEV, and providing an economic finality system for quick settlement across blockchains.

Unichain

Guru Vamsi Policharla

MEV-Boost, the current sidecar protocol for MEV extraction in Ethereum, relies heavily on centralized actors called relays.

Using a novel form of silent threshold encryption, a non-interactive construction that can leverage validators' existing BLS keypairs, we propose an alternative architecture that allows builders and proposers to communicate directly, with purely cryptographic privacy assumptions.



How to Remove the Relay

Brendan Malone

A data-driven analysis of the SEC's actions against the crypto industry under Chair Gensler. 

Regulation by Enforcement Isn't Just a Meme

A personal reflection on working at the intersection of crypto and policy

Looking Back / Looking Forward

Democratic voters are increasingly gravitating towards crypto. That’s the primary takeaway of our new poll of registered Democrats, the complement to our poll of Republicans from June. These results dovetail with recent reports that Democratic candidates for office and Members of Congress are becoming pro-crypto, indicating that political figures are following the lead of their voters.

July 2024 Democratic Public Opinion Poll

Paradigm files comment letter in response to the CFTC's proposed rule on prediction markets and election contracts.

Paradigm Files Comment on the CFTC’s Overbroad Proposed Rule on Political Event Contracts and Prediction Markets

Paradigm has submitted an amicus brief supporting Lejilex and the Crypto Freedom Alliance of Texas's lawsuit against the SEC.

Paradigm Files Amicus Brief Supporting CFAT and Lejilex’s Lawsuit Against the SEC

In June, Paradigm conducted a first-of-its kind poll of Republican voters to better understand how they think about crypto. The results were clear: Republicans embrace financial freedom and want the current Administration’s crypto approach to end.

June 2024 Republican Public Opinion Poll

The Reth Team

Reth is now feature-complete, stable, and recommended for production usage and staking.

Releasing Reth 1.0!

Doug Feagin

Venture Partner

We’re launching the 2024 Paradigm Fellowship, a program to gather crypto’s most formidable young engineers and researchers.
