Pith Number

pith:35SDP3SO

pith:2026:35SDP3SOJZINF5SUO4FKALDM4H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Slow and Steady: Preventing MEV with Verifiable Delays

Dimitris Karakostas, Karl Kreder, Shreekara Shastry, Zeta Avarikioti

arxiv:2608.13271 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{35SDP3SOJZINF5SUO4FKALDM4H}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-14T01:00:49.625171Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

df6437ee4e4e50d2f654770aa02c6ce1d6a3c616a719d29fed925e40c5d09ee9

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.13271 · arxiv_version: 2608.13271v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.13271 · pith_short_12: 35SDP3SOJZIN · pith_short_16: 35SDP3SOJZINF5SU · pith_short_8: 35SDP3SO

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/35SDP3SOJZINF5SUO4FKALDM4H \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: df6437ee4e4e50d2f654770aa02c6ce1d6a3c616a719d29fed925e40c5d09ee9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cbe0f71c27e993fa4efe5c390bb6d55b678ce67d4e966578e13eb68f0d781364",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T14:08:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2e07f6bb6a017ec393c2fb41c528c58a8edc7e220eb9490b8d832de850542cfb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.13271",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}