Study reveals widespread manipulation of meme coins, leading to significant economic losses.
problem Widespread manipulation of meme coins leading to economic losses.
method Cross-chain analysis of 34,988 tokens across Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Solana, and Base.
result 82.8% of high-return tokens show evidence of artificial growth strategies.
New system resists meme coin copy trading bots.
problem Manipulative bots exploit copy trading in illiquid meme coins.
method Multi-agent architecture with LLM and CoT reasoning.
result System outperforms other methods in prediction and economic performance.
Paper introduces a method to assess liquidity risk in meme tokens using entity-linked address analysis.
problem High market volatility and vulnerability to manipulation in meme tokens.
method Multi-dimensional approach integrating fund flow analysis, behavioral similarity, and anomalous transaction detection.
result Significant disparities between apparent and actual liquidity in meme token markets.
Study detects endogenous bubbles in meme stocks using CI.
problem Detecting endogenous bubbles in meme stocks.
method Used Log-Periodic Power Law (LPPL) Confidence Indicator (CI).
result CI detected numerous bubbles in meme stocks but struggled with predicting exogenous rallies.
Study finds meme stocks have unique price and social media dynamics.
problem Exploring unique properties of meme stocks.
method Regime-switching cointegration model.
result Meme stocks exhibit a distinct 'mementum' compared to other high-volume stocks.
Paper detects social media influencers affecting financial markets.
problem Impact of social media influencers on financial markets.
method Developed an early warning system for detecting suspicious social network activity.
result Discrepancy in meme and non-meme stocks' reactions to social networks.
New dataset and models detect cryptocurrency bubbles using social media data.
problem Detecting anomalous market behavior in cryptocoins and meme stocks.
method Developed a novel multi-span identification task and sequence-to-sequence hyperbolic models.
result Models effectively detect cryptocoins and meme stocks bubbles in zero-shot settings.
Paper tests for time-varying entropy in stock prices, finding periods of inefficiency.
problem Testing for time-varying entropy in stock price dynamics.
method Unbiased approximation of Shannon entropy variance, optimal rolling window selection, hypothesis testing.
result Existence of periods of market inefficiency for meme stocks.
New Bitcoin coin selection method improves cost savings.
problem Improving cost savings in Bitcoin coin selection.
method Coin selection with leverage, allowing user-tunable parameters.
result Natural replacement for standard knapsack method.
Bitcoin draws the highest degree of attention among cryptocurrencies, while coin mining is one of the most important fashion of profiting in the Bitcoin ecosystem. This paper constructs fresh coin circulation networks by tracking the fresh coin transfer routes with transaction referencing in Bitcoin blockchain. This pa…
Study reveals strong price correlations between major and alt-coins.
problem Unclear tight relations between cryptocoins trading prices.
method Investigated coin-price correlation trends over two years.
result Strong correlation patterns between main and alt-coins.
We empirically verify that the market capitalisations of coins and tokens in the cryptocurrency universe follow power-law distributions with significantly different values, with the tail exponent falling between 0.5 and 0.7 for coins, and between 1.0 and 1.3 for tokens. We provide a rationale for this, based on a simpl…
Argentum is a crypto coin for saving and investment in unstable countries.
problem Stable purchasing power for savings in unstable economies.
method Designing a crypto coin backed by investment instruments.
result Provides a stabilization instrument for savings in unstable economies.
Efficient approximation lies at the heart of large-scale machine learning problems. In this paper, we propose a novel, robust maximum entropy algorithm, which is capable of dealing with hundreds of moments and allows for computationally efficient approximations. We showcase the usefulness of the proposed method, its eq…
Given a mixture between two populations of coins, "positive" coins that each have -- unknown and potentially different -- bias ≥21+Δ and "negative" coins with bias ≤21−Δ, we consider the task of estimating the fraction ρ of positive coins to within additive error ε. We achieve an upper a…
Automated market-making for CBDCs and stable coins on blockchain.
problem Creating fair exchange rates for digital assets on blockchain.
method Developed an innovative approach for generating fair exchange rates.
result Illustrated the approach's efficacy on G-10 currency exchange rates.
A decentralized online quantum cash system, called qBitcoin, is given. We design the system which has great benefits of quantization in the following sense. Firstly, quantum teleportation technology is used for coin transaction, which prevents from the owner of the coin keeping the original coin data even after sending…
New coin sampling method for Bayesian inference without learning rates.
problem Scalable Bayesian inference with learning rate tuning issues.
method Coin sampling for gradient-based Bayesian inference.
result Comparable performance to other ParVI algorithms without learning rate tuning.
Stablecoins are unstable, but some are more stable than others.
problem Inconsistency in stability of stablecoins and high transaction costs.
method Analysis of market shares, transaction volumes, and exchange activity.
result USD Coin, Tether, and Dai are the most stable, but overall failure rate remains high.
Cryptocurrency prices predicted using LSTM, SVM, and polynomial regression.
problem Uncertainty in crypto coin values.
method Long Short Term Memory, Support Vector Machine, Polynomial Regression models.
result Support Vector Machine with linear kernel had the smallest mean square error.
WSB's investment advice significantly outperformed the S&P500 over 3 years, but not consistently.
problem Reliability of investment advice from WSB community.
method Data analysis of WSB posts and stock performance from 2019-2021.
result A WSB portfolio grew 200% over 3 years and 480% over 1 year, outperforming S&P500.
Quantum walks blend patterns into splines when averaged.
problem Understanding the asymptotic patterns of quantum random walks.
method Averaging over quantum coins using the Haar measure.
result Patterns blend into splines, showing a unified behavior.
New algorithm closes empirical gap in PFSGD performance.
problem Empirical performance gap between tuned SGD and PFSGD.
method Parameter-free algorithm based on Coin-Betting ODE updates.
result New algorithm outperforms tuned baselines and matches optimal performance.
Examines various types of cryptocurrencies and their economic properties.
problem Understanding the economic characteristics of different cryptocurrencies.
method Characterization and analysis of different classes of cryptocurrencies using balance sheet operations.
result Different types of cryptocurrencies have distinct economic properties, ranging from commodities to liabilities of central banks.
We study capital process behavior in the fair-coin game and biased-coin games in the framework of the game-theoretic probability of Shafer and Vovk (2001). We show that if Skeptic uses a Bayesian strategy with a beta prior, the capital process is lucidly expressed in terms of the past average of Reality's moves. From t…
COIN++ compresses multiple data types efficiently.
problem Handling diverse data modalities in neural compression.
method Implicit neural representations and modulations quantization.
result Significant compression gains with reduced encoding time.
We discuss several uses of blockchain (and, more generally, distributed ledger) technologies outside of cryptocurrencies with a pragmatic view. We mostly focus on three areas: the role of coin economies for what we refer to as data malls (specialized data marketplaces); data provenance (a historical record of data and …
Paper tightens PAC-Bayes bounds using coin-betting for better estimates.
problem Estimating mean of random elements with possibly S-dependent parameters.
method Refined PAC-Bayes proof strategy based on coin-betting framework.
result Derives tighter concentration inequalities for all sample sizes.
Predicts cryptocurrency pump probability using sequence-based neural networks.
problem Detecting pump-and-dump schemes in cryptocurrency markets.
method Developed a sequence-based neural network (SNN) that encodes historical P&D events into sequences for prediction.
result SNN improves prediction accuracy by leveraging positional attention to extract useful information.
SFC aims to protect the Amazon with a digital currency and smart contracts.
problem Protecting the Amazon's ecosystem and ensuring resource credibility.
method Blockchain, digital contracts, smart contracts with oracles.
result Ensures credibility and security for financial resources invested in Amazon projects.
We study multistep Bayesian betting strategies in coin-tossing games in the framework of game-theoretic probability of Shafer and Vovk (2001). We show that by a countable mixture of these strategies, a gambler or an investor can exploit arbitrary patterns of deviations of nature's moves from independent Bernoulli trial…
We build examples of properly convex projective manifold Ω/Γ which have finite volume, are not compact, nor hyperbolic in every dimension n⩾2. On the way, we build Zariski-dense discrete subgroups of $\SL_{n+1}(\R)$ which are not lattice, nor Schottky groups. Moreover, the open properly convex set Ω is…
We study a coin-tossing model used by a ratings agency to justify the sale of constant proportion debt obligations (CPDOs), and prove that it was impossible for CPDOs to achieve in a finite lifetime the Cash-In event of doubling its capital. In the best-case scenario of a two-headed coin, we show that the goal of attai…
This paper discusses the potential impacts of the so-called `initial coin offerings', and of several developments based on distributed ledger technology (`DLT'), on corporate governance. While many academic papers focus mainly on the legal qualification of DLT and crypto-assets, and most notably in relation to the pote…
Optimizes cryptocurrency trading pairs for efficiency and decentralization.
problem Finding optimal trading pairs among many cryptocurrencies without direct volume data.
method Two-stage process: 1) Fill missing values using eigenvalue decomposition with regularization, 2) Optimize pairs using branch and bound with pruning.
result Optimal trading pairs lead to more decentralized markets and better liquidity.
We derive some results on contrarian and one-sided strategies by Skeptic for the fair-coin game in the framework of the game-theoretic probability of Shafer and Vovk \cite{sv}. In particular, concerning the rate of convergence of the strong law of large numbers (SLLN), we prove that Skeptic can force that the convergen…
Maker Protocol manages Dai stable coin on Ethereum blockchain.
problem Managing decentralized finance applications on blockchain.
method Analyzes Maker Protocol's components and governance.
result Maker Protocol is a significant decentralized finance application.
New algorithms learn latent variable models without tuning, outperforming existing methods.
problem Learning latent variable models without manual tuning.
method Two particle-based algorithms using free energy minimization and coin betting.
result Learning algorithms are entirely tuning-free and competitive with existing methods.
Study sets a nontrivial upper limit on return forecasting accuracy.
problem Establishing a practical upper limit for return forecasting accuracy.
method Defined a coin-flip oracle model to theoretically outperform practical models and used its RextOOS2 as an upper bound. result Theoretical upper bound on RextOOS2 is a quadratic function of directional accuracy. This paper explores using nonlinear control for robust logarithmic growth in coin flipping games.
problem Tackles the use of nonlinear control in recursive betting games with logarithmic growth.
method Formulates a robust nonlinear control problem for a simple coin flipping game, considering a probability range for the coin's bias.
result Provides a closed-form description of the optimal robust nonlinear controller, which outperforms linear controllers.
New digital currency aims for equal wealth distribution.
problem Inequality in cryptocurrency wealth distribution.
method Egalitarian coin minting and joint minting across communities.
result Achieves global distributive justice in wealth distribution.
Deep learning methods achieve state-of-the-art performance in many application scenarios. Yet, these methods require a significant amount of hyperparameters tuning in order to achieve the best results. In particular, tuning the learning rates in the stochastic optimization process is still one of the main bottlenecks. …
Study reveals RL game's embedding space is stratified, not a manifold.
problem Understanding the structure of RL game embeddings.
method Adapted Robinson's volume growth transform for RL setting.
result Token embedding space is stratified, not a manifold.
New algorithms for sampling in constrained domains without learning rates.
problem Sampling in constrained domains with fairness constraints and post-selection inference.
method Coin betting ideas from convex optimisation and a unifying framework for constrained sampling.
result Our algorithms achieve competitive performance without hyperparameter tuning.
We propose a novel approach to multimodal sentiment analysis using deep neural networks combining visual analysis and natural language processing. Our goal is different than the standard sentiment analysis goal of predicting whether a sentence expresses positive or negative sentiment; instead, we aim to infer the laten…
Study replicability in high-dimensional statistics, resolving open problems.
problem Ensuring consistent results in high-dimensional statistical tasks.
method Introduced replicable learning algorithms and established computational and statistical equivalence with high-dimensional isoperimetric tilings.
result Matching sample complexity upper and lower bounds for replicable mean estimation and coin problem.
Model predicts jump risk premia influencing cryptocurrency futures and option performance.
problem Capturing asymmetric and time-varying skewness in cryptocurrency returns.
method Bivariate Hawkes process with positive and negative jump premia.
result Inferred jump risk premia predict futures cost of carry and option performance.
In this article, I will present a paradox whose purpose is to draw your attention to an important topic in finance, concerning the non-independence of the financial returns (non-ergodic hypothesis). In this paradox, we have two people sitting at a table separated by a black sheet so that they cannot see each other and …