I am Head of Research at Eigen Labs.

2011–2016
B.Tech + M.Tech, EE
IIT Bombay, Mumbai
2019–2023
Ph.D., ECE
UW Seattle
2016–2019
Research Engineer
NEC Labs, Tokyo
2023–2025
Principal Researcher
Eigen Labs
2025–2026
General Manager
Eigen Labs
2026–
Head of Research
Eigen Labs

Coming soon...

TBA

  • Tempo: The Payment-first Stablecoin-native Blockchain — Mallesh Pai
    Tempo’s design as a payment-first, stablecoin-native blockchain — its architecture, consensus approach, and what it means to build a chain optimized for payments from the ground up.
    February 2026
  • Ethereum’s Quantum Leap: Lean Ethereum — Justin Drake
    A clean-slate rethink of Ethereum’s consensus, execution, and data availability — covering post-quantum security, fast finality, real-time ZK proving, and L2s.
    February 2026 · 1 hr 17 min
  • AlpenGlow: Solana’s Consensus Rewrite — Roger Wattenhofer, Kobi & Quentin Kniep
    AlpenGlow redesigns Solana’s consensus and data propagation stack — Rotor for erasure-coded dissemination, Voter for fast/slow path finality, and what it means for validators and MEV.
    February 2026 · 52 min
  • The Anti-Framework: Building Chains from Primitives — Patrick O’Grady & Brendan Chou
    Commonware’s anti-framework philosophy: compose optimized primitives instead of inheriting a monolithic stack. Deep dive into their Minimmit consensus protocol and upcoming ExoWare.
    February 2026 · 58 min
  • Consensus from First Principles — Kartik Nayak
    How consensus actually works, how it evolved over 50 years, how today’s protocol families fit together, and what the next frontier looks like — with one of the world’s leading consensus researchers.
    January 2026 · 1 hr 52 min
  • Tempo: The Payment-first Stablecoin-native Blockchain — Mallesh Pai
    Tempo’s design as a payment-first, stablecoin-native blockchain — its architecture, consensus approach, and what it means to build a chain optimized for payments from the ground up.
    February 2026
  • Ethereum’s Quantum Leap: Lean Ethereum — Justin Drake
    A clean-slate rethink of Ethereum’s consensus, execution, and data availability — covering post-quantum security, fast finality, real-time ZK proving, and L2s.
    February 2026 · 1 hr 17 min
  • AlpenGlow: Solana’s Consensus Rewrite — Roger Wattenhofer, Kobi & Quentin Kniep
    AlpenGlow redesigns Solana’s consensus and data propagation stack — Rotor for erasure-coded dissemination, Voter for fast/slow path finality, and what it means for validators and MEV.
    February 2026 · 52 min
  • The Anti-Framework: Building Chains from Primitives — Patrick O’Grady & Brendan Chou
    Commonware’s anti-framework philosophy: compose optimized primitives instead of inheriting a monolithic stack. Deep dive into their Minimmit consensus protocol and upcoming ExoWare.
    February 2026 · 58 min
  • Consensus from First Principles — Kartik Nayak
    How consensus actually works, how it evolved over 50 years, how today’s protocol families fit together, and what the next frontier looks like — with one of the world’s leading consensus researchers.
    January 2026 · 1 hr 52 min

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