The technology of decentralized finance (DeFi)

R Auer, B Haslhofer, S Kitzler, P Saggese, F Victor - Digital Finance, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a new financial paradigm that leverages distributed
ledger technologies to offer services such as lending, investing, or exchanging cryptoassets …

The hidden shortcomings of (d) aos–an empirical study of on-chain governance

R Feichtinger, R Fritsch, Y Vonlanthen… - … Conference on Financial …, 2023 - Springer
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are a recent innovation in organizational
structures, which are already widely used in the blockchain ecosystem. We empirically study …

[HTML][HTML] Decentralised Finance's timocratic governance: The distribution and exercise of tokenised voting rights

T Barbereau, R Smethurst, O Papageorgiou… - Technology in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ethereum's public distributed ledger can issue tokenised voting rights that are tradable on
crypto-asset exchanges by potentially anyone. Ethereum thus enables global …

Blockchain in financial services: current status, adoption challenges, and future vision

A Miah, M Rahouti, SK Jagatheesaperumal… - … Journal of Innovation …, 2023 - World Scientific
Blockchain is undoubtedly considered one of the most innovative technologies in financial
services from the past decade. Interests in blockchain technology continue to grow on a …

The vulnerable nature of decentralized governance in defi

M Dotan, A Yaish, HC Yin, E Tsytkin… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platforms are often governed by Decentralized Autonomous
Organizations (DAOs) which are implemented via governance protocols. Governance …

[PDF][PDF] Decentralised Finance's Unregulated Governance: Minority Rule in the Digital Wild West

TJ Barbereau, R Smethurst, O Papageorgiou… - 2022 - researchgate.net
Decentralised finance (DeFi) is a category of unlicensed, unregulated, and non-custodial
financial services that utilise public, distributed ledgers like Ethereum. The Bloomberg …

Decentralizing platform power: A design space of multi-level governance in online social platforms

S Jhaver, S Frey, AX Zhang - Social Media+ Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Many have criticized the centralized and unaccountable governance of prominent online
social platforms, leading to renewed interest in platform governance that incorporates …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a systematic understanding of blockchain governance in proposal voting: A dash case study

L Mosley, H Pham, X Guo, Y Bansal, E Hare… - Blockchain: Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
The transparent and immutable nature of blockchain provides incentives for organizations
wishing to create and implement an open, decentralized governance structure. As members …

The economics of decentralized autonomous organizations

V Laturnus - Available at SSRN 4320196, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
The advent of blockchain, smart contracts, and Web3 has empowered new concepts for
equity partnerships with autonomous operating systems and democratic corporate …

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

S Bonnet, F Teuteberg - International Journal of Innovation and …, 2024 - ideas.repec.org
The coordination and organization of economic activity has always been one of the greatest
challenges of humanity. For a long time, centralized models have been the dominant …