6 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…
DAO-enabled decentralized physical AI: A new paradigm for human-machine collaboration
Mark C. Ballandies, Florian Spychiger, Uwe Serdült +1
We propose DAO-enabled decentralized physical AI (DePAI), a democratic architecture for coordinating humans and autonomous machines in the operation and governance of physical-digi…
Calibrating Attribution Proxies for Reward Allocation in Participatory Weather Sensing
Mark C. Ballandies, Michael T. C. Chiu, Claudio J. Tessone
Large-scale IoT weather sensing networks require incentive mechanisms to sustain participation, yet determining how much value individual data contributions bring to the network re…
DAOs of Collective Intelligence? Unraveling the Complexity of Blockchain Governance in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Mark C. Ballandies, Dino Carpentras, Evangelos Pournaras
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) have transformed organizational structures by shifting from traditional hierarchical control to decentralized approaches, leveraging b…
Bitcoin, a DAO?
Mark C. Ballandies, Guangyao Li, Claudio J. Tessone
This paper investigates whether Bitcoin can be regarded as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), what insights it may offer for the broader DAO ecosystem, and how Bitcoin…
Are you a DePIN? A Decision Tree to Classify Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks
Michael S. Andrew, Mark C. Ballandies
Decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePINs) are an emerging vertical within "Web3" replacing the traditional method that physical infrastructures are constructed. Yet,…