4 papers
The CoinAlg Bind: Profitability-Fairness Tradeoffs in Collective Investment Algorithms
Andrés Fábrega, James Austgen, Samuel Breckenridge +5
Collective Investment Algorithms (CoinAlgs) are increasingly popular systems that deploy shared trading strategies for investor communities. Their goal is to democratize sophistica…
Voting-Bloc Entropy: A New Metric for DAO Decentralization
Andrés Fábrega, Amy Zhao, Jay Yu +5
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) use smart contracts to foster communities working toward common goals. Existing definitions of decentralization, however -- the 'D' in…
Evaluating Voting Design Vulnerabilities for Retroactive Funding
Jay Yu, Austin Bennett, Billy Gao +1
Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF) rewards blockchain projects based on proven impact rather than future promises. This paper reviews voting mechanisms for Optimism's Retr…
Liquefaction: Privately Liquefying Blockchain Assets
James Austgen, Andrés Fábrega, Mahimna Kelkar +5
Inherent in the world of cryptocurrency systems and their security models is the notion that private keys, and thus assets, are controlled by individuals or individual entities. We…