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Aviv Yaish

Yale University

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New Haven, CT CT 06520

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http://cs.yale.edu/homes/aviv/

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Josefstädter Straße 39

Vienna

Austria

  • Yale University

  • Complexity Science Hub Vienna

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (10)

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1.

Platform Building With Fake Consumers: On Double Dippers and Airdrop Farmers

NYU Stern School of Business Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 24 Jul 2025
Hanna Halaburda, Benjamin Livshits and Aviv Yaish
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Imperial College London and Yale University
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Platforms, Blockchains, Decentralized Finance, Tokens, Network Effects

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Quantifying Inequality in Blockchain Networks

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Oct 2025 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2026
Nir Chemaya, Aviv Yaish, Shahar Yacouel, Dahlia Malkhi and Lin William Cong
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Yale University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Nanyang Technological University
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Blockchain, Tokenomics, Inequality, Ethereum

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Inequality in the Age of Pseudonymity

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, volume 40, issue 20, 2026 [10.1609/aaai.v40i20.38781]
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Aug 2025 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2026
Aviv Yaish, Nir Chemaya, Lin William Cong and Dahlia Malkhi
Yale University, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Nanyang Technological University and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
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Inequality, Equality, Inequality Measures, Inequality Metrics, False Names, Sybil-Proofness, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance, Pseudonymity, Digital Platforms, Online Platforms

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Transaction Fee Mechanisms Robust to Welfare-Increasing Collusion

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 04 Mar 2025 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2026
Yotam Gafni and Aviv Yaish
Weizmann Institute of Science and Yale University
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Axiomatic Mechanism Design, Blockchains, Efficient Auctions

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Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?

5th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2023) Article No. 2; pp. 2:1–2:35
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Apr 2025
Aviv Yaish and Aviv Zohar
Yale University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Blockchain, Proof of Work, Cryptocurrency, Economics

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PoliFi Tokens and the Trump Effect

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 08 Dec 2025
Ignacy Nieweglowski, Aviv Yaish, Fahad Saleh and Fan Zhang
Yale University - Department of Computer Science, Yale University, University of Florida and Yale University
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Political Finance, Event Study, Cryptoassets

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Modern Portfolio Theory in the Crypto-Wilderness

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 30 May 2026
Ivan Vynyavskyy, Stefan Kitzler, Bernhard Haslhofer and Aviv Yaish
Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Complexity Science Hub Vienna and Yale University
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Mathematics Of Computing → Mathematical Optimization, Applied Computing → Economics Keywords and Phrases Modern Portfolio Theory, Mean-Variance Optimisation, Defi, Blockchain, Modern Portfolio Theory, Mean-Variance Optimisation, Defi, Blockchain

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Your Loss is My Gain: Low Stake Attacks on Liquid Staking Pools

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 11 May 2026
Sen Yang, Aviv Yaish, Arthur Gervais and Fan Zhang
Yale University, Yale University, Imperial College London - Department of Computing and Yale University
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SoK: DeFi Lending and Yield Aggregation Protocol Taxonomy, Empirical Measurements, and Security Challenges

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management [10.1109/TNSM.2026.3682174]
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Apr 2026
Arad Kotzer, Tom Azoulay, Yoad Abels, Aviv Yaish and Ori Rottenstreich
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Yale University and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Blockchain, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Lending, Yield Aggregation

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Perils of Parallelism: Transaction Fee Mechanisms under Execution Uncertainty

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Apr 2026 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2026
Sarisht Wadhwa, Aviv Yaish, Fan Zhang and Kartik Nayak
Duke University, Yale University, Yale University and Duke University
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