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Ever wondered how big blockchain peer-to-peer networks are and where the nodes are running from? Check out our paper at SBC. We conducted the largest measurements of peer-to-peer networks, measuring 36 networks since December 2024.
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At the Whitepaper Reading Club talking about MCP. @MohammadMJalal1 and @komasito55 are there to talk about Cadence.
.@0xWenhaoWang (a former @category_xyz intern) takes the stage and presents an analysis of spam MEV on high-throughout blockchains: to understand why it emerges and how to mitigate it.
The final talk from @category_xyz of the day is presented by @amituiuc on how to improve prior batch threshold encryption constructions from quadratic to quasilinear computational cost in the batch size.
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To finish off the @category_xyz back to back to back talks in the consensus session, @MohammadMJalal1 presents MonadBFT: the consensus protocol of the Monad blockchain.
Now it‘s time for @kalpturer (a former Category Labs intern) to talks about how MEV creates timing games in responsive protocols and how to mitigate them with dynamic block rewards.
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.@komasito55 takes the stage at SBC to talk about Forget-IT: the first information-theoretic Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus algorithm achieving optimal good-case latency together with quadratic message complexity per view.
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6 of 34 papers at SBC this year are co-authored by Category Labs researchers. We're at Stanford all week, presenting across the main program, the MEV Workshop, and the Whitepaper Reading Club. Schedule below. Come say hi!
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Category Labs engineer @0xhaythem shares an open source dashboard for PropAMM's on Monad, featuring a rich set of realtime metrics like volume, spreads, markouts and gas costs.
If you'd like to add your Monad PropAMM, open a PR:
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PropAMMs are one of the most interesting thing happening on-chain on @monad , with more than $500M in volume traded.
Introducing a live dashboard to track and measure propAMMs activity on Monad.
Spreads. Markouts. Flow. Even their gas bill. 🧵
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Update to the announcement below:
Category Labs is expanding the potential open-market purchase authorization up to $80 million and extending the period through the end of 2026. Any purchases, if made, may be initiated, suspended or discontinued at our discretion and will be conducted in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. This update does not constitute a commitment to acquire any specific amount of tokens, but reflects our intent to consider opportunistic purchases depending on market conditions.
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Category Labs may, from time to time, purchase up to $30 million of MON tokens on the open market in the first half of 2026 in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Any purchases, if made, may be initiated, suspended or discontinued at our discretion. This announcement does not constitute a commitment to acquire any specific amount of tokens, but reflects Category Labs’ intent to consider opportunistic purchases depending on market conditions.
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Save 10x On Gas on Monad: Category Labs Presentation with Kevin Kuehler
Trading at the speed of light: Category Labs Presentation with Ken Camann
The BTX eprint submission is now live.
Check it out:
Check out BTX, our new Batched Threshold Encryption (BTE) scheme, which achieves:
⚡️Shortest ciphertext (same as ElGamal)
⚡️Epochless and collision-free properties
⚡️Fastest decryption (<1 ms per core per ciphertext with our AVX implementation)
⚡️Computation scales with ACTUAL (as opposed to MAX) batch size
Some of the key ideas are inspired by the recent BTE paper by Boneh et al. (eprint 2026/674) and our prior work (eprint 2025/2115).
Hitting your nearest eprint server soon!
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Check out BTX, our new Batched Threshold Encryption (BTE) scheme, which achieves:
⚡️Shortest ciphertext (same as ElGamal)
⚡️Epochless and collision-free properties
⚡️Fastest decryption (<1 ms per core per ciphertext with our AVX implementation)
⚡️Computation scales with ACTUAL (as opposed to MAX) batch size
Some of the key ideas are inspired by the recent BTE paper by Boneh et al. (eprint 2026/674) and our prior work (eprint 2025/2115).
Hitting your nearest eprint server soon!
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This week we're allowing some investors to move their locked tokens to new wallets for operational purposes. The owners of the locked tokens are not changing and remain the same legal entities.
We're excited to welcome a new Researcher to Category Labs: Victor Shoup!
Victor is a computer scientist whose research spans computational number theory and algebra, cryptography, and secure distributed systems.
Learn more about Victor here:
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