Dr. Jason Teustch won the ACM CCS Test-of-Time Award along with his co-authors Loi Luu, Raghav Kulkarni, and Prateek Saxena for their 2015 paper on the “Verifier’s Dilemma.” Jason Teutsch’s ACM CCS Test-Of-Time Award paper from 2015 introduced the Verifier’s Dilemma, a characteristic limitation for blockchain consensus, and became the first peer-reviewed paper about Ethereum. As a means to address the Verifier’s Dilemma, Teutsch introduced Ethereum’s first scaling solution, a precursor to “Layer 2” optimistic rollups, and ported it into Truebit’s well-known whitepaper. Today, Truebit extends beyond attestations for smart contracts and provides verification infrastructure for the emerging real-world asset economy, artificial intelligence, and supply chains. 

Dr. Teutsch is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research focuses on distributed systems security, game theory, and algorithmic randomness. His research has demonstrated the existence of efficient list approximations for shortest descriptions, introduced the notion of integer-valued martingales, and revealed the interactions between algorithmic randomness, fractal geometry, and additive number theory.