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Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) offer a unique method for representing digital and physical assets on the blockchain. However, the NFT market has recently experienced a downturn in interest, mainly due to challenges related to high entry…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Wejdene Haouari , Marios Fokaefs

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) serve as a representative form of digital asset ownership and have attracted numerous investors, creators, and tech enthusiasts in recent years. However, related fraud activities, especially phishing scams, have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wenkai Li , Zongwei Li , Xiaoqi Li , Chunyi Zhang , Xiaoyan Zhang , Yuqing Zhang

Lately, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), i.e., uniquely discernible assets on a blockchain, have skyrocketed in popularity by addressing a broad audience. However, the typical NFT auctioning procedures are conducted in various, ad hoc ways,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Jason Milionis , Dean Hirsch , Andy Arditi , Pranav Garimidi

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are digital assets stored on a blockchain representing real-world objects such as art or collectibles. An NFT collection comprises numerous tokens; each token can be transacted multiple times. It is a…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-02-07 Wesley Joon-Wie Tann , Akhil Vuputuri , Ee-Chien Chang

An abstraction of normal form games is proposed, called Feasibility/Desirability Games (or FD Games in short). FD Games can be seen from three points of view: as a new presentation of games in which Nash equilibria can be found, as choice…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-03 Pierre Lescanne

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are transforming how content creators, such as artists, price and sell their work. A key feature of NFTs is the inclusion of royalties, which grant creators a share of all future resale proceeds. Although widely…

General Economics · Economics 2026-04-06 Brett Hemenway Falk , Gerry Tsoukalas , Niuniu Zhang

The non-fungible token (NFT) is an emergent type of cryptocurrency that has garnered extensive attention since its inception. The uniqueness, indivisibility and humanistic value of NFTs are the key characteristics that distinguish them from…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Yixiang Tan , Zhiying Wu , Jieli Liu , Jiajing Wu , Zibin Zheng , Ting Chen

Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are digital assets that represent objects like art, collectible, and in-game items. They are traded online, often with cryptocurrency, and are generally encoded within smart contracts on a blockchain. Public…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-11-02 Matthieu Nadini , Laura Alessandretti , Flavio Di Giacinto , Mauro Martino , Luca Maria Aiello , Andrea Baronchelli

The derivative of token standard of Ethereum blockchain, termed as Non Fungible Token is distinguishable token. These tokens are bound with digital properties that provide them unique identification which helps in fulfilling the aim of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Priyanshu Lohar , Kiran Rathi

Off-chain protocols constitute one of the most promising approaches to solve the inherent scalability issue of blockchain technologies. The core idea is to let parties transact on-chain only once to establish a channel between them,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Sophie Rain , Georgia Avarikioti , Laura Kovács , Matteo Maffei

We study the strategic considerations of miners participating in the bitcoin's protocol. We formulate and study the stochastic game that underlies these strategic considerations. The miners collectively build a tree of blocks, and they are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Aggelos Kiayias , Elias Koutsoupias , Maria Kyropoulou , Yiannis Tselekounis

We study game-theoretic models for capturing participation in blockchain systems. Permissionless blockchains can be naturally viewed as games, where a set of potentially interested users is faced with the dilemma of whether to engage with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Pyrros Chaidos , Aggelos Kiayias , Evangelos Markakis

Quantum games, like quantum algorithms, exploit quantum entanglement to establish strong correlations between strategic player actions. This paper introduces quantum game-theoretic models applied to trading and demonstrates their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Faisal Shah Khan , Norbert M. Linke , Anton Trong Than , Dror Baron

Blockchain-based games have introduced novel economic models that blend traditional gaming with decentralized ownership and financial incentives, leading to the rapid emergence of the GameFi sector. However, despite their innovative appeal,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Pavun Shetty

We propose a model for games in which the players have shared access to a blockchain that allows them to deploy smart contracts to act on their behalf. This changes fundamental game-theoretic assumptions about rationality since a contract…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Mathias Hall-Andersen , Nikolaj I. Schwartzbach

We study the problem of computing an $\epsilon$-Nash equilibrium in repeated games. Earlier work by Borgs et al. [2010] suggests that this problem is intractable. We show that if we make a slight change to their model---modeling the players…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Joseph Y. Halpern , Rafael Pass , Lior Seeman

Blockchain is a decentralized system that allows transaction transmission and storage according to the roles of the Consensus algorithm and Smart contracts. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) consolidate the best characteristics of blockchain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Subhash Shankar Pandey , Tadasha Dash , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Ahmed Farouk

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as a decentralized proof of ownership represent one of the main reasons why Ethereum is a disruptive technology. This paper presents the first systematic study of the interactions occurring in a number of NFT…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-26 S. Casale-Brunet , P. Ribeca , P. Doyle , M. Mattavelli

Non Fungible Token (NFT) Industry has been witnessing multi-million dollar trade in recent times. With rapid innovation of the NFT market environment by technology, innovation, and decentralization, it is becoming hard to distinguish…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-01-19 Mayukh Mukhopadhyay , Kaushik Ghosh

Strategic interactions between a group of individuals or organisations can be modelled as games played on networks, where a player's payoff depends not only on their actions but also on those of their neighbours. Inferring the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Emanuele Rossi , Federico Monti , Yan Leng , Michael M. Bronstein , Xiaowen Dong