To non-experts, the traditional Centralized Finance (CeFi) ecosystem may seem obscure,
because users are typically not aware of the underlying rules or agreements of financial …

Most self-sovereign identity systems consist of strictly objective claims, cryptographically
signed by trusted third party attestors. Lacking protocols in place to account for subjectivity …

Purpose This paper aims to establish a fundamental and comprehensive understanding of
non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by identifying and structuring common characteristics within a …

For many years, address clustering for the identification of entities has been the basis for a
variety of graph-based investigations of the Bitcoin blockchain and its derivatives. Especially …

While most cryptocurrency financial activity is conducted on centralized exchanges,
decentralized finance (DeFi) has experienced a particular surge with roughly 90,000 users …

In the modern financial system, the ability to create money is in the hands of a few central
institutions. Blockchain networks, and by extension cryptocurrencies, were created with the …

Multi-sided platforms are omnipresent in today's digital world. However, establishing a
platform includes challenges: The platform utility usually increases with the number of …

We propose a new approach for a secure, decentralized, and censorless upgrade of existing
cryptocurrencies to newly created tokens without interaction with any external information …

Efficient transfers to many recipients present a host of issues on Ethereum. First, accounts
are identified by long and incompressible constants. Second, these constants have to be …

This scholarly work offers an in-depth analysis of the transformative impact of
cryptocurrencies on fundraising mechanisms, with a particular focus on the evolution from …