Security design, which broadly speaking deals with the issue of designing optimal
contractual mechanisms for overcoming various frictions between agents, is the subject of …

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) have emerged as a new organizational
structure that leverages smart contracts and blockchain technology. Academics and …

Over the last decade, the green shoots of a new economic order have emerged as
decentralized technologies challenge traditional financial systems. Decentralized finance …

We develop a model to compare the governance of traditional shareholder-owned platforms
to that of platforms that issue tokens. A traditional shareholder governance structure leads a …

Decentralized finance (DeFi), which executes financial transactions using blockchain
without an intermediary, has attracted over US $250 billion in total value locked (TVL) at its …

We uncover severe collusion vulnerabilities in decentralized autonomous organizations on
the blockchain. When voters act strategically and the system is poorly decentralized, payoff …

A recent wave of civil conflict scholarship examines rebel governance, the process through
which insurgent groups organize local affairs in areas under their control. While current …

With the widespread adoption of blockchain technology, a novel organizational structure
known as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) has attracted considerable …

This study analyzes voting dynamics and proposal outcomes within Decentraland, a
prominent Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), by examining its voting …

This study focuses on specifically looking at how penetration testing affects the market value
of smart contracts. This study uses a web-based IDE to deploy smart contracts, and it …