3 papers
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…
cs.CR2024
PROF: Protected Order Flow in a Profit-Seeking World
Kushal Babel, Nerla Jean-Louis, Yan Ji +5
Users of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications face significant risks from adversarial actions that manipulate the order of transactions to extract value from users. Such actio…