The Structural Role of Smart Contracts and Exchanges in the Centralisation of Ethereum-Based Cryptoassets

The Structural Role of Smart Contracts and Exchanges in the Centralisation of Ethereum-Based Cryptoassets

In this paper, we use the methods of networks science to analyse the transaction networks of tokens running on the Ethereum blockchain. We start with a deep dive on four of them: Ampleforth (AMP), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Dai (DAI) and Uniswap (UNI). We study two types of blockchain addresses, s...

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Main Authors: Francesco Maria De Collibus, Matija Piškorec, Alberto Partida, Claudio J. Tessone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-07-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
blockchain
Ethereum
decentralised finance
network science
preferential attachment
network dismantling
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/8/1048

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