Permissionless blockchains promise resilience against censorship by a single entity. This
suggests that deterministic rules, not third-party actors, decide whether a transaction is …

Blockchain, also coined as decentralized AI, has the potential to empower AI to be more
trustworthy by creating a decentralized trust of privacy, security, and audibility. However …

Proof-of-Stake (PoS) variants provide an energy-efficient alternative to Proof-of-Work (PoW).
However, it is not clear whether practical PoS implementations are fair with respect to …

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) use smart contracts to foster communities
working toward common goals. Existing definitions of decentralization, however-the'D'in …

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are a new, rapidly-growing class of
organizations governed by smart contracts. Here we describe how researchers can …

Blockchains are decentralized; are they genuinely? We analyze blockchain
decentralization's often-overlooked but quantifiable dimension: geospatial distribution of …

Ethereum 2.0, as the preeminent smart contract blockchain platform, guarantees the precise
execution of applications without third-party intervention. At its core, this system leverages …

Ethereum is undergoing significant changes to its architecture as it evolves. These changes
include its switch to PoS consensus and the introduction of significant infrastructural …

An important virtue of distributed ledger technologies is their acclaimed higher level of
decentralisation compared to traditional financial systems. Empirical literature, however …

In the past two years, decentralised finance (defi) has attracted increasing attention and
scrutiny from academics, research institutions, policy makers, participants in the crypto …