4 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-…
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…
B-Privacy: Defining and Enforcing Privacy in Weighted Voting
Samuel Breckenridge, Dani Vilardell, Andrés Fábrega +4
In traditional, one-vote-per-person voting systems, privacy equates with ballot secrecy: voting tallies are published, but individual voters' choices are concealed. Voting systems…
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…