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Recently, many Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS)-based blockchains have been widely used in decentralized applications, such as EOSIO, Tron, and Binance Smart Chain. Compared with traditional PoW-based blockchain systems, these systems…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jieli Liu , Weilin Zheng , Dingyuan Lu , Jiajing Wu , Zibin Zheng

Blockchain technology is leading a revolutionary transformation across diverse industries, with effective governance being critical for the success and sustainability of blockchain projects. Community forums, pivotal in engaging…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yutong Quan , Xintong Wu , Wanlin Deng , Luyao Zhang

This paper asks why startups in the blockchain industry are exiting to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), an outstanding phenomena in the wider digital economy which has tended to retain centralized ownership and governance…

General Economics · Economics 2024-07-22 Tara Merk

Decentralized systems are a subset of distributed systems where multiple authorities control different components and no authority is fully trusted by all. This implies that any component in a decentralized system is potentially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Carmela Troncoso , Marios Isaakidis , George Danezis , Harry Halpin

Liquid democracy is a novel paradigm for collective decision-making that gives agents the choice between casting a direct vote or delegating their vote to another agent. We consider a generalization of the standard liquid democracy setting…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Markus Brill , Théo Delemazure , Anne-Marie George , Martin Lackner , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin

Liquid democracy is a mechanism for the division of labor in decision-making through the transitive delegation of influence. In essence, all individuals possess the autonomy to determine the issues with which they will engage directly,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Davide Grossi , Andreas Nitsche

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), utilizing blockchain technology to enable collective governance, are a promising innovation. This research addresses the ongoing query in blockchain governance: How can DAOs optimize human…

General Economics · Economics 2025-08-11 Yulin Liu , Luyao Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the impact of reward schemes and committee sizes motivated by governance systems over blockchain communities. We introduce a model for elections with a binary outcome space where there is a ground truth (i.e.,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Georgios Birmpas , Philip Lazos , Evangelos Markakis , Paolo Penna

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables collaborative, privacy-preserving model training without relying on a central server. This decentralized approach reduces bottlenecks and eliminates single points of failure, enhancing…

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) have transformed organizational structures by shifting from traditional hierarchical control to decentralized approaches, leveraging blockchain and cryptoeconomics. Despite managing significant…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Mark C. Ballandies , Dino Carpentras , Evangelos Pournaras

Proponents of participatory democracy praise Liquid Democracy: decisions are taken by referendum, but voters delegate their votes freely. When better informed voters are present, delegation can increase the probability of a correct…

General Economics · Economics 2024-04-24 Victoria Mooers , Joseph Campbell , Alessandra Casella , Lucas de Lara , Dilip Ravindran

This paper investigates whether Bitcoin can be regarded as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), what insights it may offer for the broader DAO ecosystem, and how Bitcoin governance can be improved. First, a quantitative literature…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Mark C. Ballandies , Guangyao Li , Claudio J. Tessone

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are blockchain-based organizations that facilitate decentralized governance. Today, DAOs not only hold billions of dollars in their treasury but also govern many of the most popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Rainer Feichtinger , Robin Fritsch , Lioba Heimbach , Yann Vonlanthen , Roger Wattenhofer

Every major framework for governing artificial intelligence presupposes an identifiable entity -- a developer, deployer, or operator -- who can be held responsible and compelled to comply. Decentralized AI (DeAI) dissolves this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Botao Amber Hu , Helena Rong

The dynamics of random transitive delegations on a graph are of particular interest when viewed through the lens of an emerging voting paradigm, liquid democracy. This paradigm allows voters to choose between directly voting and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Adam Berinsky , Daniel Halpern , Joseph Y. Halpern , Ali Jadbabaie , Elchanan Mossel , Ariel D. Procaccia , Manon Revel

Deliberative democracy arguably leads to better collective decisions, but is fundamentally constrained by human attention and bandwidth. While recent AI-mediated deliberations scale participation by synthesizing inputs from many humans,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Joseph Low , Oscar Duys , Claude Formanek , Michiel Bakker , Lewis Hammond

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are a new, rapidly-growing class of organizations governed by smart contracts. Here we describe how researchers can contribute to the emerging science of DAOs and other digitally-constituted…

An efficient and fair node scheduling is a big challenge in multihop wireless networks. In this work, we propose a distributed node scheduling algorithm, called Local Voting. The idea comes from the finding that the shortest delivery time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Dimitrios J. Vergados , Natalia Amelina , Yuming Jiang , Katina Kralevska , Oleg Granichin

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is an integral component of the blockchain ecosystem, enabling a range of financial activities through smart-contract-based protocols. Traditional DeFi governance typically involves manual parameter adjustments…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-08 Jiahua Xu , Yebo Feng , Daniel Perez , Benjamin Livshits

In liquid democracy, agents can either vote directly or delegate their vote to a different agent of their choice. This results in a power structure in which certain agents possess more voting weight than others. As a result, it opens up…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Shiri Alouf-Heffetz , Tanmay Inamdar , Pallavi Jain , Yash More , Nimrod Talmon