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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…
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…