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…
B-Privacy: Defining and Enforcing Privacy in Weighted Voting
Samuel Breckenridge, Dani Vilardell, Andrés Fábrega +4
In traditional, one-vote-per-person voting systems, privacy equates with ballot secrecy: voting tallies are published, but individual voters' choices are concealed. Voting systems…
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…
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…