5 papers
Crypto x AI, AI x Crypto: A Survey
Sarah Allen, Pranay Anchuri, James Austgen +22
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…
Cycles Protocol: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Clearing System
Ethan Buchman, Paolo Dini, Shoaib Ahmed +2
For centuries, financial institutions have responded to liquidity challenges by forming closed, centralized clearing clubs with strict rules and membership that allow them to colla…
NDAI Agreements
Matthew Stephenson, Andrew Miller, Xyn Sun +2
We study a fundamental challenge in the economics of innovation: an inventor must reveal details of a new idea to secure compensation or funding, yet such disclosure risks expropri…
OML: A Primitive for Reconciling Open Access with Owner Control in AI Model Distribution
Zerui Cheng, Edoardo Contente, Ben Finch +9
The current paradigm of AI model distribution presents a fundamental dichotomy: models are either closed and API-gated, sacrificing transparency and local execution, or openly dist…
PROF: Protected Order Flow in a Profit-Seeking World
Kushal Babel, Nerla Jean-Louis, Yan Ji +5
Users of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications face significant risks from adversarial actions that manipulate the order of transactions to extract value from users. Such actio…