As an integral part of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, decentralized exchanges
(DEXs) with automated market maker (AMM) protocols have gained massive traction with …

Smart contracts are decentrally anchored scripts on blockchains or similar infrastructures
that allow the transparent execution of predefined processes. Using smart contracts …

Metaverse as the latest buzzword has attracted great attention from both industry and
academia. Metaverse seamlessly integrates the real world with the virtual world and allows …

Blockchain is a technology that has desirable features of decentralization, autonomy,
integrity, immutability, verification, fault-tolerance, anonymity, auditability, and transparency …

Within just four years, the blockchain-based Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem has
accumulated a peak total value locked (TVL) of more than 253 billion USD. This surge in …

Permissionless blockchains such as Bitcoin have excelled at financial services. Yet,
opportunistic traders extract monetary value from the mesh of decentralized finance (DeFi) …

Blockchain has found applications to track ownership of digital assets. Yet, several
blockchains were shown vulnerable to network attacks. It is thus crucial for companies to …

This position paper discusses the challenges of blockchain applications in businesses and
the public sector related to an excessive degree of transparency. We first point out the types …

In this whitepaper, we articulate a vision for the evolution of Chainlink beyond its initial
conception in the original Chainlink whitepaper. We foresee an increasingly expansive role …

We introduce Themis, a scheme for introducing fair ordering of transactions into
(permissioned) Byzantine consensus protocols with at most ƒ faulty nodes among n≥ 4ƒ+ 1 …