Daniel Joseph Aronoff

I am a Research Affiliate in the MIT Department of Economics and a Research Associate at the Laboratory for Economic Analysis and Design at MIT, where I work at the intersection of economics and cryptography. My current research focuses on two domains: the design of algorithms for financial market trading infrastructure that generate efficient multilateral netting, and the design of smart contracts with differential privacy to improve trading outcomes.

I am a Collaborator at the MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative, where I work in three areas: the design of distributed consensus protocols for blockchains, the design and analysis of stablecoins, and the econometric study of transaction fees and block rewards on the Bitcoin blockchain. I also research mechanism design to improve the performance of markets for environmental offsets.

I earned a BSc in Philosophy and Economics, with first-class honours, from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Economics from MIT.