4 papers
A Taxonomy of Real-World Asset Tokenization for Blockchain-Based Financial Infrastructure
Giorgio Vella, Luca Pennella, Mark C. Ballandies
Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization has emerged as a prominent application of blockchain technology, enabling off-chain financial and non-financial assets to be represented through…
A Unified Framework and Comparative Study of Decentralized Finance Derivatives Protocols
Luca Pennella, Pietro Saggese, Fabio Pinelli +1
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications introduce novel financial instruments replicating and extending traditional ones through blockchain-based smart contracts. Among these app…
Designing a Token Economy: Incentives, Governance, and Tokenomics
Samela Kivilo, Alex Norta, Marie Hattingh +2
In recent years, tokenomic systems, decentralized systems that use cryptographic tokens to represent value and rights, have evolved considerably. Growing complexity in incentive st…
Money in Motion: Micro-Velocity and Usage of Ethereums Liquid Staking Tokens
Benjamin Kraner, Luca Pennella, Nicolò Vallarano +2
We introduce a micro-velocity framework for analysing the on-chain circulation of Lidos liquid-staking tokens, stETH, and its wrapped ERC-20 form, wstETH. By reconstructing full tr…