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most citedThe Cloud Strikes Back: Investigating the Decentralization of IPFS

17 citations · 31 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.SI2025

Beyond Single-Tokenomics: How Farcaster's Pluralistic Incentives Reshape Social Networking

Wen Yang, Qiming Ye, Onur Ascigil +4

This paper presents the first empirical analysis of how diverse token-based reward mechanisms impact platform dynamics and user behaviors. For this, we gather a unique, large-scale…

cs.DC2025

PANDAS: Peer-to-peer, Adaptive Networking for Data Availability Sampling within Ethereum Consensus Timebounds

Matthieu Pigaglio, Onur Ascigil, Michał Król +6

Layer-2 protocols can assist Ethereum's limited throughput, but globally broadcasting layer-2 data limits their scalability. The Danksharding evolution of Ethereum aims to support…

cs.SI2025★ 1 cited

Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs

Leonhard Balduf, Saidu Sokoto, Onur Ascigil +6

Microblogging is a crucial mode of online communication. However, launching a new microblogging platform remains challenging, largely due to network effects. This has resulted in e…

cs.NI2024

Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky

Leonhard Balduf, Saidu Sokoto, Onur Ascigil +5

The pitfalls of centralized social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter/X, have led to concerns about control, transparency, and accountability. Decentralized social networks hav…

cs.NI2023★ 17 cited

The Cloud Strikes Back: Investigating the Decentralization of IPFS

Leonhard Balduf, Maciej Korczyński, Onur Ascigil +4

Interplanetary Filesystem (IPFS) is one of the largest peer-to-peer filesystems in operation. The network is the default storage layer for Web3 and is being presented as a solution…

cs.CR2023

Content Censorship in the InterPlanetary File System

Srivatsan Sridhar, Onur Ascigil, Navin Keizer +5

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is currently the largest decentralized storage solution in operation, with thousands of active participants and millions of daily content tran…

cs.NI2023★ 5 cited

Data Availability Sampling in Ethereum: Analysis of P2P Networking Requirements

Michał Król, Onur Ascigil, Sergi Rene +6

Despite their increasing popularity, blockchains still suffer from severe scalability limitations. Recently, Ethereum proposed a novel approach to block validation based on Data Av…

cs.CR2021★ 8 cited

Shard Scheduler: object placement and migration in sharded account-based blockchains

Michał Król, Onur Ascigil, Sergi Rene +3

We propose Shard Scheduler, a system for object placement and migration in account-based sharded blockchains. Our system calculates optimal placement and decides of object migratio…