This paper analyzes the Node Package Manager (npm) dependency network, demonstrates its vulnerability to targeted attacks, and proposes a defense strategy consisting of Centrality-Based Node-Hardening…

This paper introduces the $k$-Step-Central Shortest Path problem to maximize reachability in transportation networks and provides a polynomial-time algorithm for unweighted graphs.

The paper analyzes the 'decentralisation paradox' in digital identity, arguing that user-centric designs merely redistribute central control rather than eliminating it, requiring a holistic approach b…

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.

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 introduces WebKnoGraph, an open-source framework for systematically evaluating internal linking strategies on websites by modeling the site as a graph and assessing trade-offs between author…

SwarmHarness introduces a decentralized, incentive-aligned protocol enabling self-organizing compute swarms for AI tasks, eliminating the need for central coordinators or heavy blockchain infrastructu…

The paper introduces DARTIC, a decentralized, anonymous, and scalable reputation framework that allows on-chain crowdsourcing to maintain accountability and trust while preserving user privacy.

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 proposes a method using on-chain voting analysis to detect emerging partisan communities within DAOs, demonstrating that addresses destined to fork cluster together months before actual orga…

The paper argues that endogenous tokens on public, permissionless ledgers are not money because the underlying ledger structure fails to provide a cash-like privacy primitive, exposing holders to syst…

Restructuring the communication topology among robots provides significantly greater performance gains in multi-robot coordination than simply increasing the size of the onboard AI models, given fixed…

The paper proves that for resources with structural parallelizability (like divisibility and transferability), it is impossible to enforce a linear cost for concentrating influence, demonstrating that…

This paper proposes a decentralized, blockchain-based protocol using both public and private blockchains to enhance the cyber resilience and security of IoT data transfer for digital building twins an…

The paper proposes using geometric metrics, specifically eigenspace alignment, to monitor the structural integrity of large behavioral populations, demonstrating its effectiveness in detecting network…

The paper empirically investigates the lead marketing ecosystem, revealing a highly non-compliant system that aggressively collects, shares, and monetizes sensitive personal data through deceptive bro…

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

The paper proposes a tree-based repository blockchain framework to manage hard forks in collaborative blockchain ecosystems, allowing a single process to access all system blocks without relying on In…

This survey analyzes various novel cross-chain interoperability protocols to provide a comprehensive framework for evaluating their performance and financial impact within the fragmented on-chain fina…

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