5 papers
Paper Agents, Paper Gains: An Empirical Analysis of DeFi Investment Agents
Jay Yu, Amy Zhao, Danning Sui
DeFi investment agents, systems that use AI for autonomous on-chain trading, have attained over USD 3 billion in combined token valuations since late 2024. We survey over 1,900 AI-…
PASS: A Provenanced Access Subaccount System for Blockchain Wallets
Jay Yu, Shunfan Zhou, Hang Yin +1
Blockchain wallets conventionally follow an ownership model where possession of a private key grants unilateral control. However, this assumption is brittle for emerging settings s…
The CoinAlg Bind: Profitability-Fairness Tradeoffs in Collective Investment Algorithms
Andrés Fábrega, James Austgen, Samuel Breckenridge +5
Collective Investment Algorithms (CoinAlgs) are increasingly popular systems that deploy shared trading strategies for investor communities. Their goal is to democratize sophistica…
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…
Evaluating Voting Design Vulnerabilities for Retroactive Funding
Jay Yu, Austin Bennett, Billy Gao +1
Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF) rewards blockchain projects based on proven impact rather than future promises. This paper reviews voting mechanisms for Optimism's Retr…