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Comparing Smart Contract Paradigms: A Preliminary Study of Security and Developer Experience
Matteo Vaccargiu, Andrea Pinna, Maria Ilaria Lunesu +1
Smart contract vulnerabilities have caused billions in financial losses, raising questions about whether programming language paradigms can reduce security overhead. While imperati…
Efficiency for Experts, Visibility for Newcomers: A Case Study of Label-Code Alignment in Kubernetes
Matteo Vaccargiu, Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci +3
Labels on platforms such as GitHub support triage and coordination, yet little is known about how well they align with code modifications or how such alignment affects collaboratio…
A calibrated model of debt recycling with interest costs and tax shields: viability under different fiscal regimes and jurisdictions
Carlo von der Osten, Sabrina Aufiero, Pierpaolo Vivo +2
Debt recycling is a leveraged equity management strategy in which homeowners use accumulated home equity to finance investments, applying the resulting returns to accelerate mortga…
Mapping Microscopic and Systemic Risks in TradFi and DeFi: a literature review
Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli +1
This work explores the formation and propagation of systemic risks across traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi), offering a comparative framework that bridg…
Cryptocurrencies in the Balance Sheet: Insights from (Micro)Strategy -- Bitcoin Interactions
Sabrina Aufiero, Antonio Briola, Tesfaye Salarin +3
This paper investigates the evolving link between cryptocurrency and equity markets in the context of the recent wave of corporate Bitcoin (BTC) treasury strategies. We assemble a…
Mining a Decade of Event Impacts on Contributor Dynamics in Ethereum: A Longitudinal Study
Matteo Vaccargiu, Sabrina Aufiero, Cheick Ba +6
We analyze developer activity across 10 major Ethereum repositories (totaling 129884 commits, 40550 issues) spanning 10 years to examine how events such as technical upgrades, mark…
Financial instability transition under heterogeneous investments and portfolio diversification
Preben Forer, Barak Budnick, Pierpaolo Vivo +3
We analyze the stability of financial investment networks, where financial institutions hold overlapping portfolios of assets. We consider the effect of portfolio diversification a…
Top eigenpair statistics of diluted Wishart matrices
Barak Budnick, Preben Forer, Pierpaolo Vivo +3
Using the replica method, we compute the statistics of the top eigenpair of diluted covariance matrices of the form , where is a…
Phase transitions in debt recycling
Sabrina Aufiero, Preben Forer, Pierpaolo Vivo +2
Debt recycling is an aggressive equity extraction strategy that potentially permits faster repayment of a mortgage. While equity progressively builds up as the mortgage is repaid m…
DApps Ecosystems: Mapping the Network Structure of Smart Contract Interactions
Sabrina Aufiero, Giacomo Ibba, Silvia Bartolucci +3
In recent years, decentralized applications (dApps) built on blockchain platforms such as Ethereum and coded in languages such as Solidity, have gained attention for their potentia…
MindTheDApp: A Toolchain for Complex Network-Driven Structural Analysis of Ethereum-based Decentralised Applications
Giacomo Ibba, Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci +4
This paper presents MindTheDApp, a toolchain designed specifically for the structural analysis of Ethereum-based Decentralized Applications (DApps), with a distinct focus on a comp…