5 papers
Your Loss is My Gain: Low Stake Attacks on Liquid Staking Pools
Sen Yang, Aviv Yaish, Arthur Gervais +1
Permissionless Proof-of-Stake (PoS) economic security is predicated on the high cost of violating consensus safety or liveness. We show that liquid staking introduces additional ri…
PoliFi Tokens and the Trump Effect
Ignacy Nieweglowski, Aviv Yaish, Fahad Saleh +1
Cryptoassets launched by political figures, e.g., political finance (PoliFi) tokens, have recently attracted attention. Chief among them are the eponymous tokens backed by the 47th…
Persistent BitTorrent Trackers
François-Xavier Wicht, Zhengwei Tong, Shunfan Zhou +2
Private BitTorrent trackers enforce upload-to-download ratios to prevent free-riding, but suffer from three critical weaknesses: reputation cannot move between trackers, centralize…
Inequality in the Age of Pseudonymity
Aviv Yaish, Nir Chemaya, Dahlia Malkhi +1
Inequality measures such as the Gini coefficient are used to inform and motivate policymaking, and are increasingly applied to digital platforms. We analyze how measures fare in ps…
Advancing AI Research Assistants with Expert-Involved Learning
Tianyu Liu, Simeng Han, Hanchen Wang +27
Large language models (LLMs) and large multimodal models (LMMs) promise to accelerate biomedical discovery, yet their reliability remains unclear. We introduce ARIEL (AI Research A…