MIT News article about my study with Will Rafey measuring the impact of wetlands development on flood risk and econometrically modeling and estimating the market, with a proposal to improve the tradeoff. news.mit.edu/2026/preserving…

New paper on ArXiv by me, Robert M Townsend and @MadarsV . TradeMech: A Method to Multilaterally Net Trades Without Altering Counterparty Exposure arxiv.org/abs/2605.15210

New applied cryptography paper I co-authored with the SCBx research team led by @tutanon_s 'An AI Driven Post-Quantum Cryptographically Secure Workflow for Collaborative Credit Scoring' eprint.iacr.org/2026/876

My structural econometric paper on wetlands co-authored with @RafeyWill in the May 2026 issue of The American Economic Review. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…

Macro Musings podcast released today with @neha & Anders discussing our MIT DCI paper:The Hidden Plumbing of Stablecoins. mercatus.org/macro-musings/n…

Our MIT-Visa collaboration paper "SoK: Fully-homomorphic encryption in smart contracts" was presented at the Decentralized Finance '26 conference on March 6, 2026. ifca.ai/fc26/defi/program.ht…

Forthcoming article in The American Economic Review co-authored with Will Rafey. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…

My letter to the Financial Times. ft.com/content/1a348b80-ed38…

For all those who asked, here is a clip of @havivrettiggur responding to masked protesters interrupting his lecture at Haverford College on February 1, 2026. Enjoy and learn.

Our MIT DCI paper on “The hidden Plumbing of Stablecoins: Financial and Technological Risks in the GENIUS Act Era”. We think it is the most rigorous analysis of stablecoin risks yet published. Read it&find out if you agree:) dci.mit.edu/posts/mit-dci-re…

Perhaps you’ve heard the English acronym “STEM”—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. It’s used to elevate these over everything else—economics, politics, history, anthropology, philosophy, art, theology, literature. It’s worked. It’s such a cute acronym. The word “stem” in English means tronco, from which everything grows. So everything grows from STEM subjects, right? My latest column for @folha ....

The clock has stopped. The last hostage, the hero Ran Gvili z”l, is home, and history has been made after 843 days. Throughout the entire time I was in captivity, we counted every single day. In a place so dark, with no information, lies piled upon lies, and an endless wait to come home, we always told ourselves that we knew nothing, but there was one thing we did know - the number of days we had been held captive. We found comfort in the thought that every day that passed was one day closer to our release. And now, finally, we can stop counting. The moment we waited for for so long has arrived. Everyone in this country, and people around the world, prayed for this moment. It is incredible to me to see how everyone, truly everyone, saw, felt, and carried the pain of the hostages and their families as if they were their own brothers and sisters. People set an empty chair at Friday night dinners and on holidays, as if we were part of their family. It is incredible to see that no one gave up. Not even for a moment. This shows us the power we have when we are united around a single goal. Thank you to all the security forces who, for so long, risked their lives and gave everything of themselves, day after day. Thank you for not giving up. We are here because of you. After more than 11 years in which there were hostages in Gaza, only now, finally, can an entire country begin its healing. Be patient with one another. We have all been through hell. This is not a slogan - it is a real effort required from each of us to seek out what unites us, not what divides us. We will always remember all those murdered in this horrific massacre, the hostages who were murdered in captivity in cold blood, and the soldiers who gave their lives to protect our country. We will always remember that behind every angel taken from us, there is a family that needs support and needs to be seen. And alongside them, we remember the families of the hostages who went through hell, and who are only now truly able to begin their own healing process. Make sure that we never forget October 7th. That we will grow from our grief and become stronger. Together.

Full story here: davidbessis.substack.com/p/t…

Powerful words from @VanJones68 here on why the West must NOT abandon the Jewish people after centuries of persecution and genocide. There are only 15 million Jews left in the WORLD, and half of them, he says, are "clinging to their existence" in Israel.

Lecture at MIT ILP on post-quantum cryptographic methods given by me and Madars Virza. AI-Driven, Post-Quantum Data Privacy Research Spotlight: Daniel Aronoff ... youtu.be/sTfhVHjRqLA?si=SsIO… via @YouTube

The 4th blogpost from MIT DCI’s study of the financial and technical risks of stablecoins, by ⁦@Ashwanth_Samuel⁩ ⁦@anders94⁩ ⁦@neha⁩ and me. Final report to be published in December 2025. dci.mit.edu/posts/stablecoin…

The third installment of the MIT Medial Lab Digital Currency Initiative blogpost series reporting on our study of the financial and technical risks of stablecoins. This post was written by Ashwanth, Neha Narula and me. dci.mit.edu/posts/stablecoin…

The second blogpost providing an overview of our MIT Digital Currency Initiative (MITRE sponsored) study of the financial and technological risks of Stablecoins (full report to be released in December 2025). dci.mit.edu/dci-news/stablec…