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On Exercising Governance Power in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Vabuk Pahari, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Johnnatan Messias +2
A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is a governance entity that allows its stakeholders to manage blockchain-based protocols through smart contracts. The DAO explicitly s…
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…
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…
Dissecting Bitcoin and Ethereum Transactions: On the Lack of Transaction Contention and Prioritization Transparency in Blockchains
Johnnatan Messias, Vabuk Pahari, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran +2
In permissionless blockchains, transaction issuers include a fee to incentivize miners to include their transactions. To accurately estimate this prioritization fee for a transacti…
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…