Articles for author: Isai Alexei
Maximal extractable value (MEV) has pushed Ethereum to redesign its block production process, according to a primer published in March 2024 by economists Vijay Mohan and Peyman Khezr. The paper, funded by an Ethereum Foundation academic grant, treats block building as a knapsack problem and argues the auction design behind block space determines how much ...
PoliFi tokens, cryptoassets launched by political figures, track presidential approval ratings in a pattern major cryptoassets do not follow, according to a study posted on December 4, 2025 by Ignacy Nieweglowski, Aviv Yaish, Fahad Saleh and Fan Zhang of Staples High School, Yale University, IC3 and the University of Florida. The authors call the pattern ...
A study on NFT wash trading detection from the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University and the University of California, Los Angeles classifies about 38% of trades on LooksRare, Blur and OpenSea as likely manipulation. Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas and Niuniu Zhang measured wash trading directly from public on-chain data, tracing wallets instead of inferring ...
NFT visual traits carry measurable price premia and discounts in major Ethereum collections, and the size of the premia changes with market conditions, according to a paper by Samiha Tariq, a PhD candidate in economics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The study analyzes 94,039 secondary-market sales from 26 generative collections between January 2021 and March ...
RWA tokenization gained a comparison framework in June 2026, when researchers Giorgio Vella, Luca Pennella and Mark C. Ballandies posted an study with a classification of real-world asset tokenization protocols across five components and 23 attributes. The authors applied the taxonomy to the 20 largest protocols on the DeFiLlama RWA dashboard, using the market-capitalization ranking ...
NFT valuation in major Ethereum collections tracks the intensity and tone of Reddit discussion, according to a working paper by researcher Samiha Tariq posted on February 2, 2026. The study merges 87,696 secondary-market sales from January 2021 through March 2025 with Reddit-based attention and sentiment measures for 25 large generative collections. The author reports conditional ...
Machine learning crypto trading models ranked cryptocurrency price extrema accurately, yet lost money as Binance Spot trading policies. Researcher Ayoub Jadouli of Abdelmalek Essaâdi University audited candle-based timing models and recorded negative net results after assumed transaction costs in every executable test. All evaluated policies remain NO_TRADE. Ranking power and policy returns diverge Jadouli trained ...
Blockchain AI transparency received a formal proposal from six researchers at Emporia State University in Kansas, who posted a framework in March 2025. The paper argues a distributed ledger can store each AI decision, the data behind it and every model update in a tamper-evident log. Auditors, regulators and users would verify the history without ...
A paper published in November 2025 by Hamoon Soleimani concludes Bitcoin as money faces structural barriers beyond price swings. The analysis applies Post-Keynesian and Austrian monetary theory, tests both with econometric data, and classifies Bitcoin as a speculative asset instead of a monetary standard. Monetary Theory Excludes Bitcoin Post-Keynesian economists define money as a debt ...
Solana Alpenglow reaches Solana mainnet on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. The mainnet activation starts at epoch 1064, at approximately 15:00 UTC, according to the Solana Foundation. Anza, the Agave client developer, lists 14:50 UTC. Testnet and devnet completed their migrations in September 2026, after stakers approved proposal SIMD-0326 in a 2025 vote. Epoch start times ...
