4 papers
Stablecoins 2.0: Economic Foundations and Risk-based Models
Ariah Klages-Mundt, Dominik Harz, Lewis Gudgeon +2
Stablecoins are one of the most widely capitalized type of cryptocurrency. However, their risks vary significantly according to their design and are often poorly understood. We see…
The Decentralized Financial Crisis
Lewis Gudgeon, Daniel Perez, Dominik Harz +2
The Global Financial Crisis of 2008, caused by the accumulation of excessive financial risk, inspired Satoshi Nakamoto to create Bitcoin. Now, more than ten years later, Decentrali…
Towards Safer Smart Contracts: A Survey of Languages and Verification Methods
Dominik Harz, William Knottenbelt
With a market capitalisation of over USD 205 billion in just under ten years, public distributed ledgers have experienced significant adoption. Apart from novel consensus mechanism…
The Scalability of Trustless Trust
Dominik Harz, Magnus Boman
Permission-less blockchains can realise trustless trust, albeit at the cost of limiting the complexity of computation tasks. To explain the implications for scalability, we have im…