This paper analyzes 48 large, active DAOs on Ethereum and finds that common governance mechanisms like token registration, staking, and delegation systematically reinforce the centralization of voting…

The paper proves that any voting rule based solely on wallet balance, including anti-plutocratic mechanisms like Quadratic Voting, is fundamentally vulnerable to Sybil attacks on permissionless blockc…

The paper proposes replacing individual agent autonomy with a structured 'social contract' and institutional Separation of Power (SoP) to mitigate systemic failures and deceptive behavior in multi-age…

The paper systematizes the interaction between autonomous AI agents and blockchain platforms using a bidirectional trust framework, identifying significant gaps in current standards and proposing a ta…

The paper analyzes Ethereum builder transactions to show that builder centralization is an emergent property of the Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS) architecture, driven by specific order flow and ME…

The paper demonstrates that current transfer-based AML systems fail in complex DeFi environments because economic value migration can be structurally decoupled from explicit token transfers.

This paper analyzes high-impact Web3 security incidents to show that most losses stem from off-chain organizational and operational failures, not just smart contract bugs.

The paper identifies and quantifies 'zombie linkages' in various DNS integrations, demonstrating that persistent, outdated mappings pose significant security risks across different naming ecosystems.

This paper analyzes location-data provenance risks across multiple European sectors, proposing a risk taxonomy and architectural design for a next-generation digital trust infrastructure that treats l…

This paper analyzes the technical challenges of auditing novel cryptoassets and custody mechanisms by employing an autoethnographic framework derived from the author's multi-role professional experien…

The paper reveals that predictable nonce reuse by Polygon MEV searchers creates a critical vulnerability in ECDSA signatures, allowing passive attackers to recover private keys using linear algebra.

The paper proposes a trustless framework using dual-layer cryptographic commitments to solve the operator-gating problem in blockchain provenance trees, ensuring verifiable user attribution even when…

The paper proposes an engineering framework, inspired by metamaterials physics, to quantify institutional coordination and predict civilizational stability in the age of AI.

This study analyzed I2P's routing topology and found no significant evidence that peer selection is influenced by geographic location, suggesting highly random global mixing.

TeeDAO introduces a novel three-layer framework that autonomously organizes and manages multiple heterogeneous Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to provide robust, distributed-trust systems with h…

The paper demonstrates that for edge-native SLMs used in decentralized governance, simpler, intuitive reasoning (System 1) is significantly more robust and efficient than complex, iterative deliberati…

This paper provides the first longitudinal analysis of log-based detection rule evolution in public repositories, finding that rule changes reflect ongoing operational trade-offs rather than steady co…

The paper demonstrates that on public blockchains, the ability to dictate transaction order (ordering power) is the true source of sanctioning power, as block producers can extract value (SE-MEV) by p…

The paper proposes Federated Computing as Code (FCaC), a declarative architecture that enforces sovereignty-critical constraints in federated systems by compiling authority into cryptographically veri…

The paper proposes a comprehensive, dual-layer architectural framework for AI identification and traceability, ensuring continuous accountability and regulatory oversight throughout the entire lifecyc…