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What Drives the (In)stability of a Stablecoin?
Yujin Kwon, Kornrapat Pongmala, Kaihua Qin +5
In May 2022, an apparent speculative attack, followed by market panic, led to the precipitous downfall of UST, one of the most popular stablecoins at that time. However, UST is not…
Mitigating Decentralized Finance Liquidations with Reversible Call Options
Kaihua Qin, Jens Ernstberger, Liyi Zhou +2
Liquidations in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) are both a blessing and a curse -- whereas liquidations prevent lenders from capital loss, they simultaneously lead to liquidation spir…
Performance of EdDSA and BLS Signatures in Committee-Based Consensus
Zhuolun Li, Alberto Sonnino, Philipp Jovanovic
We present the first performance comparison of EdDSA and BLS signatures in committee-based consensus protocols through large-scale geo-distributed benchmarks. Contrary to popular b…