7 papers
Crossroads: A Smart Contract Layer for Chain-Abstracted Assets
James Austgen, Dani Vilardell, Ari Juels
This paper introduces Crossroads, a smart contract layer for chain-abstracted assets. In Crossroads, assets from nearly any chain are represented on a single backend blockchain as…
Crypto x AI, AI x Crypto: A Survey
Sarah Allen, Pranay Anchuri, James Austgen +23
The intersection of crypto x AI is spawning papers, products, online posts, and companies. All the surrounding buzz, though, obscures what exactly has been done, what the opportuni…
Creds: Privately Inferred Credentials
Samuel Breckenridge, Dani Vilardell, Derek Leung +4
Decentralized verifiable credential systems have seen limited deployment in practice. Existing constructions, built on zero-knowledge proofs, are complex, application-specific, and…
The CoinAlg Bind: Profitability-Fairness Tradeoffs in Collective Investment Algorithms
Andrés Fábrega, James Austgen, Samuel Breckenridge +5
Collective Investment Algorithms (CoinAlgs) are increasingly popular systems that deploy shared trading strategies for investor communities. Their goal is to democratize sophistica…
B-Privacy: Defining and Enforcing Privacy in Weighted Voting
Samuel Breckenridge, Dani Vilardell, Andrés Fábrega +4
In traditional, one-vote-per-person voting systems, privacy equates with ballot secrecy: voting tallies are published, but individual voters' choices are concealed. Voting systems…
Voting-Bloc Entropy: A New Metric for DAO Decentralization
Andrés Fábrega, Amy Zhao, Jay Yu +5
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) use smart contracts to foster communities working toward common goals. Existing definitions of decentralization, however -- the 'D' in…