RAM Crypto School

• 2024
• 2023

Outreach and Summer Programs

• Raising A Mathematician Training Program
  • 2025, 2023
    • A crash course on consensus based on Foundations of Blockchains (Tim Roughgarden)
    • An overview of cryptoeconomics based on Foundations of Blockchains (Tim Roughgarden), Revisiting the Primitives of Transaction Fee Mechanism Design, Breaking Omertà: On Threshold Cryptography, Smart Collusion, and Whistleblowing (upcoming)
  • 2024
    • An introduction to online optimization- prophet inequalities, the secretary problem, and exponential weights
    • CS, Econ, Math and Everything in Between – based on “Combinatorial Pen Testing (or Consumer Surplus of Deferred-Acceptance Auctions)”
• Program for Algorithmic and Combinatorial Thinking
  • 2025, 2024
    • An introduction to longest chain consensus based on Tim Roughgarden’s notes
    • Selfish mining on proof-of-work longest chain protocols by Eyal and Sirer
  • 2023
    • An introduction to prophet inequalities
• Math.Biz
  • 2024
    • An introduction to transaction fee mechanism design– based on Revisiting the Primitives of Transaction Fee Mechanism Design
    • Additional Reading:
      • An overview on transaction fee mechanisms: Transaction Fee Mechanism Design (Roughgarden, 2021), Foundations of Transaction Fee Mechanism Design (Chung and Shi, 2023)
      • An overview on mechanism design: Algorithmic Game Theory (CS364a 2013) by Tim Roughgarden (lectures 1-5 in particular)