Ethereum Zuri 2026

Designing Prediction Market Protocols: From First Principles to Deployment
2026-04-10 –, Töss - Workshop (Y23-G-04)

This workshop walks participants through a full-stack workflow for building prediction market protocols from first principles. The focus is not on theory in isolation, but on the concrete tooling and research pipeline required to move from mechanism design to deployed smart contracts.

Participants will see how to:

Formalize a market mechanism mathematically
Model adversarial dynamics
Simulate agent behavior
Tune parameters under stress conditions
Translate constraints into modular Solidity architecture
Prepare for deployment

The workshop emphasizes reproducible workflows rather than conceptual overviews.


Structure:
- 1. First Principles (10 min)
- 2. Economic & Adversarial Modeling (10 min)
- 3. Simulation Workflow (15 min)
- 4. Prototyping & Smart Contract Architecture (15 min)

Crypto economist and token engineer specializing in mechanism design, adversarial modeling, and onchain market architecture. Works on translating formal economic research into production-grade Ethereum protocols, with a focus on prediction markets and capital-efficient market design.