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# Survey of economic analyses of blockchains

## References:

### Polkadot:
- [polkadot economics](https://research.web3.foundation/en/latest/polkadot/Token%20Economics.html)

### Ethereum:
- [incentives in casper ffg](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.04205.pdf)
- [anticollusion infrastruct](https://ethresear.ch/t/minimal-anti-collusion-infrastructure/5413/18)

### Cosmos:
- [cosmos constants](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/proposal-draft-suggested-changes-to-a-few-cosmological-constants/1984/26)
- [cosmos incentives](https://hub.cosmos.network/master/validators/validator-faq.html)
- [gini as a measure for incentives in cosmos](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/on-the-decentralization-of-the-cosmos-hub/1726/3)
- [proportional slashing proposal cosmos](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/proposal-draft-proportional-slashing/2887/17)
- [validator diversification](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/cosmos-validator-diversification-reward-draft-proposal/2701/16)
- [staking rewards and taxation](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/burn-unstaked-tokens-instead-of-rewarding-staked-tokens/1795/2)

### Algorand:
- [algorand incentives](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.03356.pdf)
- [algorand rewards](https://www.algorand.com/resources/blog/rewards-technical-overview)

### classical BFT-style related:
- [Fantomette](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.06786.pdf)
- [fairledger](https://dahliamalkhi.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/fairledger-opodis2019.pdf)
- [BFT games](https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07895)

### Cardano:
- [rewards, iohk](https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11218)
- [delegation & incentives](https://hydra.iohk.io/build/1389333/download/1/delegation_design_spec.pdf)

### Bitcoin:
- [bitcoin0](https://academic.oup.com/rfs/article/32/5/1662/5427771)
- [bitcoin1](https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/138.pdf)
- [bitcoin2](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335340084_Sucker_punch_makes_you_richer_Rethinking_incentives_in_Proof-of-Work-based_Blockchains)
- [undercutting in bitcoin](/https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.11480.pdf)

### Coalition, collusion:
- [Consensus in Equilibrium: Can One Against All Decide Fairly?](https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03432v1)
- [coalition safe equilibria with virtual payoffs](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.00047.pdf)
- [collusion](https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/04/03/collusion.html)

### Misc: 
- [bribing attacks-PoS](https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/12/07/history-casper-chapter-2/)
- [bribing attacks-PoW](https://fc18.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/bitcoin18-final14.pdf)
- [SoK: Tools for Game Theoretic Models of Security for Cryptocurrencies](https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08595)
- [incentives in security protocols](https://www.benthamsgaze.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/spw18.pdf)
- [leader election & games](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3303712?download=true)
- [Distributed Computing Building Blocks for Rational Agents](http://mcg.cs.tau.ac.il/papers/podc091f-afek.pdf)
- [equilibria stake, lending](https://assets.pubpub.org/uegr5e8g/61581338612941.pdf)
- [compound market](https://compound.finance/documents/Compound.Whitepaper.pdf)
- [agent model sim chainweb](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.12924.pdf)
- [axiomatic rewards](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.10645.pdf)
- [oceanic games'19 coallitions concentration of power](https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02368)
- [weighted voting pos + incentives](arxiv.org/pdf/1903.04213.pdf)
- [Mixicles:Simple Private Decentralized Finance](https://chain.link/mixicles.pdf)
- [SquirRL: Automating Attack Analysis on Blockchain Incentive Mechanisms with Deep Reinforcement Learning](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.01798.pdf)
- [Arthur's perpetuities](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/perpetuities-as-block-rewards/1303)
- [lower self bond](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/lower-self-bond-requirement-to-4/1585)
- [taxation rewards](https://forum.tezosagora.org/t/cryptocurrency-economics-and-the-taxation-of-block-rewards/1463)
- [Julien Prat research blockchain & econ](https://sites.google.com/site/julienpratecon/research)
- [cea rationals & sym byz](https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02043331/document)
- [game theory & blockchain](https://medium.com/coinmonks/blockchain-consensus-protocols-game-theory-fc3504e4da99)
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