11 papers
When Staking Rewards Compound: Measuring the Impact of Ethereum's Pectra Upgrade
Mohammed Benseddik, Benjamin Kraner, Claudio J. Tessone
Ethereum's beacon chain hosts over 920,000 active validators, a number inflated by the legacy 32 ETH stake cap. The Pectra upgrade (May 2025) addresses this by introducing 0x02 com…
Empirical confirmation of bosonic wealth statistics in Bitcoin UTXOs
Chanhee Park, Claudio J. Tessone, Yu Zhang +1
Digitalisation transforms money from distinguishable physical objects into fungible informational units. A recent theoretical framework predicts that such indistinguishable wealth…
DAO-enabled decentralized physical AI: A new paradigm for human-machine collaboration
Mark C. Ballandies, Florian Spychiger, Uwe Serdült +1
We propose DAO-enabled decentralized physical AI (DePAI), a democratic architecture for coordinating humans and autonomous machines in the operation and governance of physical-digi…
Calibrating Attribution Proxies for Reward Allocation in Participatory Weather Sensing
Mark C. Ballandies, Michael T. C. Chiu, Claudio J. Tessone
Large-scale IoT weather sensing networks require incentive mechanisms to sustain participation, yet determining how much value individual data contributions bring to the network re…
How to Serve Your Sandwich? MEV Attacks in Private L2 Mempools
Krzysztof Gogol, Manvir Schneider, Jan Gorzny +1
We study the feasibility, profitability, and prevalence of sandwich attacks on Ethereum rollups with private mempools. First, we extend a formal model of optimal front- and back-ru…
Machine Learning-Based Detection of Pump-and-Dump Schemes in Real-Time
Manuel Bolz, Kevin Brundler, Liam Kane +5
Cryptocurrency markets often face manipulation through prevalent pump-and-dump (P&D) schemes, where self-organized Telegram groups, some exceeding two million members, artificially…