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Reserve Depletion and Security Runway in Proof-of-Stake Systems
Paolo Penna, Manvir Schneider
Many proof-of-stake protocols finance validator rewards from two sources: transaction fees and a finite reserve of tokens. This creates a dynamic hand-off problem. Early in the lif…
cs.AI2026
Swimming with Whales: Analysis of Power Imbalances in Stake-Weighted Governance
Yuzhe Zhang, Manvir Schneider, Qin Wang +1
Voting methods weighted by stakes are the fundamental governance paradigm in Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchains. Such a paradigm is known to be prone to power distortions: a few user…