3 papers
cs.CR2026
Can Trustless Agents Be Trusted? An Empirical Study of the ERC-8004 Decentralized AI Agent Ecosystem
Xihan Xiong, Zelin Li, Wei Wei +3
As autonomous AI agents increasingly transact across organizational boundaries, a fundamental trust challenge emerges: how can an agent assess whether an unknown counterpart is tru…
q-fin.GN2026
SoK of RWA Tokenization: A Systematization of Concepts, Architectures, and Legal Interoperability
Junliang Luo, Xihan Xiong, Zonglun Li +4
The global financial architecture is undergoing a shift from intermediary centric-settlement to programmable infrastructure, to transmute trillions in static illiquid capital into…
cs.CE2026
In the Margins: An Empirical Study of Ethereum Inscriptions
Xihan Xiong, Minfeng Qi, Shiping Chen +3
Ethereum Inscriptions (Ethscriptions) repurpose Ethereum calldata into a persistent inscription channel by embedding \texttt{data:}~URI payloads. These transactions typically targe…