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On Exercising Governance Power in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Vabuk Pahari, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Johnnatan Messias +2
The paper examines how design choices in DAO governance contracts affect trust and transparency, identifies vulnerabilities, and discovers a new class of governance attacks in Ethe…
There Will Be Spam: Characterizing State-Invariant Transactions and Speculative MEV
Vabuk Pahari, Johnnatan Messias, Christof Ferreira Torres
Blockchains rely on transparency and immutability to ensure trust, but these guarantees come at the cost of an ever-growing ledger that increasingly threatens decentralization by m…
Fairness in Token Delegation: Mitigating Voting Power Concentration in DAOs
Johnnatan Messias, Ayae Ide
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) aim to enable participatory governance, but in practice face challenges of voter apathy, concentration of voting power, and misaligned…
On the Centralization of Governance Power in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Vabuk Pahari, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Johnnatan Messias +2
A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is a governing entity that empowers its stakeholders (i.e., users who hold one or more of its tokens) to manage blockchain-based proto…
The Express Lane to Spam and Centralization: An Empirical Analysis of Arbitrum's Timeboost
Johnnatan Messias, Christof Ferreira Torres
DeFi applications are vulnerable to MEV, where specialized actors profit by reordering or inserting transactions. To mitigate latency races and internalize MEV revenue, Arbitrum in…
Airdrops: Giving Money Away Is Harder Than It Seems
Johnnatan Messias, Aviv Yaish, Benjamin Livshits
Airdrops are a popular mechanism used by blockchain protocols to bootstrap communities, reward early adopters, and decentralize token distribution. Despite their widespread adoptio…