2 papers
cs.GT2026
Reserve Depletion and Security Runway in Proof-of-Stake Systems
Paolo Penna, Manvir Schneider
Many proof-of-stake protocols finance validator rewards from two sources: transaction fees and a finite reserve of tokens. This creates a dynamic hand-off problem. Early in the lif…
cs.GT2025
Airdrop Games
Sotiris Georganas, Aggelos Kiayias, Paolo Penna
Launching a new blockchain system or application is frequently facilitated by a so called airdrop, where the system designer chooses a pre-existing set of potentially interested pa…