If you peel back the feverish financialization, there are a few different areas of actual research which might be usable outside crypto, such as consensus metho

If you peel back the feverish financialization, there are a few different areas of actual research which might be usable outside crypto, such as consensus methods for distributed computation. The one I have started following is the development of ZK proofs from a theoretical construct into a programming substrate. Traditional complexity texts focus on interactive ZK protocols, but non-interactive ZK proofs have been developed significantly in the crypto world. They have recently become usable for general purpose computing with interesting privacy guarantees: you can prove f(x) = y for a known f and y but without revealing x. This feels very powerful and related to other research fields like differential privacy. Examples: - Circom: https://iden3.io/circom https://iden3.io/circom - Cairo: https://www.cairo-lang.org/docs/ https://www.cairo-lang.org/docs/ - zkREPL: https://0xparc.org/blog/zkrepl https://0xparc.org/blog/zkrepl