3 papers
cs.GT2025
Timing Games in Responsive Consensus Protocols
Kaya Alpturer, Kushal Babel, Aditya Saraf
Optimistic responsiveness -- the ability of a consensus protocol to operate at the speed of the network -- is widely used in consensus protocol design to optimize latency and throu…
cs.MA2025
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…
cs.CR2024
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…