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TierDrop: Harnessing Airdrop Farmers for User Growth
Aviv Yaish, Benjamin Livshits
Blockchain platforms attempt to expand their user base by awarding tokens to users, a practice known as issuing airdrops. Empirical data and related work implies that previous aird…
Strategic Vote Timing in Online Elections With Public Tallies
Aviv Yaish, Svetlana Abramova, Rainer Böhme
We study the effect of public tallies on online elections, in a setting where voting is costly and voters are allowed to strategically time their votes. The strategic importance of…
Barriers to Collusion-resistant Transaction Fee Mechanisms
Yotam Gafni, Aviv Yaish
To allocate transactions to blocks, cryptocurrencies use an auction-like transaction fee mechanism (TFM). A conjecture of Roughgarden [44] asks whether there is a TFM that is incen…
The Vulnerable Nature of Decentralized Governance in DeFi
Maya Dotan, Aviv Yaish, Hsin-Chu Yin +2
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platforms are often governed by Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) which are implemented via governance protocols. Governance tokens are dis…
Blockchain Censorship
Anton Wahrstätter, Jens Ernstberger, Aviv Yaish +8
Permissionless blockchains promise to be resilient against censorship by a single entity. This suggests that deterministic rules, and not third-party actors, are responsible for de…