6 papers
Voting Biases in Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) Governance
Stefano Balietti, Pietro Saggese, Markus Strohmaier
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) use token-weighted voting to allocate resources, set protocol rules, and legitimate collective decisions. Yet, support in DAO voting i…
Stablecoins under Stress in a National Economy: Transaction-Level Evidence from Austrian Crypto-Asset Service Providers
Pietro Saggese, Michael Sigmund, Burkhard Raunig +3
Cryptoassets are increasingly entangled with the traditional financial system, and how this activity integrates into national economies and behaves under stress bears on financial…
A Unified Framework and Comparative Study of Decentralized Finance Derivatives Protocols
Luca Pennella, Pietro Saggese, Fabio Pinelli +1
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications introduce novel financial instruments replicating and extending traditional ones through blockchain-based smart contracts. Among these app…
Slaying the Dragon: The Quest for Democracy in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
Stefano Balietti, Pietro Saggese, Stefan Kitzler +1
This chapter explores how Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), a novel institutional form based on blockchain technology, challenge traditional centralized governance str…
Towards Verifiability of Total Value Locked (TVL) in Decentralized Finance
Pietro Saggese, Michael Fröwis, Stefan Kitzler +2
Total Value Locked (TVL) aims to measure the aggregate value of cryptoassets deposited in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols. Although blockchain data is public, the way TVL is…
Detecting Financial Bots on the Ethereum Blockchain
Thomas Niedermayer, Pietro Saggese, Bernhard Haslhofer
The integration of bots in Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) fosters efficiency and automation. However, their use is also associated with predatory trading and market manipul…