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Understanding Blockchain Governance: Analyzing Decentralized Voting to Amend DeFi Smart Contracts
Johnnatan Messias, Vabuk Pahari, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran +2
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have emerged as a novel governance mechanism in blockchain ecosystems, particularly within Decentralized Finance (DeFi). By enabling t…
Selfish & Opaque Transaction Ordering in the Bitcoin Blockchain: The Case for Chain Neutrality
Johnnatan Messias, Mohamed Alzayat, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran +3
Most public blockchain protocols, including the popular Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains, do not formally specify the order in which miners should select transactions from the pool…
Modeling Coordinated vs. P2P Mining: An Analysis of Inefficiency and Inequality in Proof-of-Work Blockchains
Mohamed Alzayat, Johnnatan Messias, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran +2
We study efficiency in a proof-of-work blockchain with non-zero latencies, focusing in particular on the (inequality in) individual miners' efficiencies. Prior work attributed diff…