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20192024
most citedAnalyzing Voting Power in Decentralized Governance: Who controls DAOs?

21 citations · 78 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CR2024

SoK: Attacks on DAOs

Rainer Feichtinger, Robin Fritsch, Lioba Heimbach +2

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are blockchain-based organizations that facilitate decentralized governance. Today, DAOs not only hold billions of dollars in their tr…

cs.DC2023

Arbitrageurs' profits, LVR, and sandwich attacks: batch trading as an AMM design response

Andrea Canidio, Robin Fritsch

We study a novel automated market maker design: the function maximizing AMM (FM-AMM). Our central assumption is that trades are batched before execution. Because of competition bet…

cs.CY2023★ 14 cited

The Hidden Shortcomings of (D)AOs -- An Empirical Study of On-Chain Governance

Rainer Feichtinger, Robin Fritsch, Yann Vonlanthen +1

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are a recent innovation in organizational structures, which are already widely used in the blockchain ecosystem. We empirically study…

cs.GT2022

Understanding the Relationship Between Core Constraints and Core-Selecting Payment Rules in Combinatorial Auctions

Robin Fritsch, Younjoo Lee, Adrian Meier +2

Combinatorial auctions (CAs) allow bidders to express complex preferences for bundles of goods being auctioned. However, the behavior of bidders under different payment rules is of…

cs.CY2022★ 21 cited

Analyzing Voting Power in Decentralized Governance: Who controls DAOs?

Robin Fritsch, Marino Müller, Roger Wattenhofer

We empirically study the state of three prominent DAO governance systems on the Ethereum blockchain: Compound, Uniswap and ENS. In particular, we examine how the voting power is di…

cs.CE2022

An Empirical Study of Market Inefficiencies in Uniswap and SushiSwap

Jan Arvid Berg, Robin Fritsch, Lioba Heimbach +1

Decentralized exchanges are revolutionizing finance. With their ever-growing increase in popularity, a natural question that begs to be asked is: how efficient are these new market…

cs.LG2022

The Price of Majority Support

Robin Fritsch, Roger Wattenhofer

We consider the problem of finding a compromise between the opinions of a group of individuals on a number of mutually independent, binary topics. In this paper, we quantify the lo…

q-fin.TR2021★ 19 cited

Concentrated Liquidity in Automated Market Makers

Robin Fritsch

We examine how the introduction of concentrated liquidity has changed the liquidity provision market in automated market makers such as Uniswap. To this end, we compare average liq…

cs.GT2021★ 12 cited

A Note on Optimal Fees for Constant Function Market Makers

Robin Fritsch, Roger Wattenhofer

We suggest a framework to determine optimal trading fees for constant function market makers (CFMMs) in order to maximize liquidity provider returns. In a setting of multiple compe…

cs.DS2020★ 11 cited

Online Graph Exploration on Trees, Unicyclic Graphs and Cactus Graphs

Robin Fritsch

We study the problem of exploring all vertices of an undirected weighted graph that is initially unknown to the searcher. An edge of the graph is only revealed when the searcher vi…

math.NT2019★ 1 cited

Counting multi-quadratic number fields of bounded discriminant

Robin Fritsch

We prove an asymptotic formula for the number of multi-quadratic number fields of bounded discriminant with a power-saving error term. Furthermore, we explicitly calculate the lead…