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The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it
Tim Berners-Lee is calling for a return to a decentralized Internet and stronger data privacy, but his arguments could be more inspiring.
😡 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03859-y

The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it
Tim Berners-Lee is calling for a return to a decentralized Internet and stronger data privacy, but his arguments could be more inspiring.

chainScale: Secure Functionality-oriented Scalability for Decentralized Resource Markets
Mohamed E. Najd, Ghada Almashaqbeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20356 https://

chainScale: Secure Functionality-oriented Scalability for Decentralized Resource Markets
Decentralized resource markets are Web 3.0 applications that build open-access platforms for trading digital resources among users without any central management. They promise cost reduction, transparency, and flexible service provision. However, these markets usually have large workload that must be processed in a timely manner, leading to serious scalability problems. Despite the large amount of work on blockchain scalability, existing solutions are ineffective as they do not account for thes…

Vulnerability Lookup and GCVE: A Decentralized Approach to Vulnerability Publishing and Management Workshop at Hack.lu 2025
We published all the materials from the workshop given at #hacklu 2025
#gcve

I have long lived by the principles of community, voluntary cooperation, and decentralized member-driven governance. Before knowing the term anarcho-syndicalism, I often imagined unions as truly democratic organizations, where delegates are elected and revocable at any moment, rooted in direct workers’ self-management and direct participation in controlling economic and social life, independent from both state authority and capitalist ownership.
Discovering anarcho-syndicalism about a…

Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko is stepping down from the decentralized social network as part of its shift to a nonprofit structure overseen by a board (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-t…

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

Mastodon’s creator, Eugen Rochko,
is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X riva
as part of the organization’s transition to a nonprofit structure,
announced at the beginning of the year.
The change is Mastodon’s most significant leadership overhaul to date, and one designed to ensure Mastodon’s longevity

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the Executive Director as the company become structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

If anyone is interested in decentralized web in #Toronto there's a group starting to have monthly meetups/presentations, starting in January #dweb

Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko is stepping down from the decentralized social network as part of its shift to a nonprofit structure overseen by a board (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-t…

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

This is a great milestone to see for Mastodon, in evolving towards its new community-focused governance structure. I’m optimistic about what this portends for the platform and how its features & future evolve. (And it’s fun that I was there for the photo being taken!) https://

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

Stable and Fault-Tolerant Decentralized Traffic Engineering
Arjun Devraj, Umesh Krishnaswamy, Ying Zhang, Karuna Grewal, Justin Hsu, Eva Tardos, Rachee Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11937

Stable and Fault-Tolerant Decentralized Traffic Engineering
Cloud providers have recently decentralized their wide-area network traffic engineering (TE) systems to contain the impact of TE controller failures. In the decentralized design, a controller fault only impacts its slice of the network, limiting the blast radius to a fraction of the network. However, we find that autonomous slice controllers can arrive at divergent traffic allocations that overload links by 30% beyond their capacity. We present Symphony, a decentralized TE system that addresses…

A Fast-Converging Decentralized Approach to the Weighted Minimum Vertex Cover Problem
Matteo Mordacchini, Emanuele Carlini, Patrizio Dazzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11697 https…

A Fast-Converging Decentralized Approach to the Weighted Minimum Vertex Cover Problem
We address the problem of computing a Minimum Weighted Vertex Cover (MWVC) in a decentralized network. MWVC, a classical NP-hard problem, is foundational in applications such as network monitoring and resource placement. We propose a fully decentralized protocol where each node makes decisions using only local knowledge and communicates with its neighbors. The method is adaptive, communication-efficient, and avoids centralized coordination. We evaluate the protocol on real-world and synthetic g…

Seems like a good day to bring back this 2021 post: https://systemsapproach.org/2021/07/19/decentralizing-the-internet-again/

Rappel : dans son genre, mastodon.mg semble être le serveur le plus actif du continent africain.
#Madagascar

Improved High-probability Convergence Guarantees of Decentralized SGD
Aleksandar Armacki, Ali H. Sayed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06141 https://arxiv.org/p…

Improved High-probability Convergence Guarantees of Decentralized SGD
Convergence in high-probability (HP) has been receiving increasing interest, due to its attractive properties, such as exponentially decaying tail bounds and strong guarantees for each individual run of an algorithm. While HP guarantees are extensively studied in centralized settings, much less is understood in the decentralized, networked setup. Existing HP studies in decentralized settings impose strong assumptions, like uniformly bounded gradients, or asymptotically vanishing noise, resultin…

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/

I'm surprised no one has made an "is going great" site for AI like this
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

Decentralized Multi-Robot Relative Navigation in Unknown, Structurally Constrained Environments under Limited Communication
Zihao Mao, Yunheng Wang, Yunting Ji, Yi Yang, Wenjie Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09188

Decentralized Multi-Robot Relative Navigation in Unknown, Structurally Constrained Environments under Limited Communication
Multi-robot navigation in unknown, structurally constrained, and GPS-denied environments presents a fundamental trade-off between global strategic foresight and local tactical agility, particularly under limited communication. Centralized methods achieve global optimality but suffer from high communication overhead, while distributed methods are efficient but lack the broader awareness to avoid deadlocks and topological traps. To address this, we propose a fully decentralized, hierarchical rela…

An interview with Evan Prodromou, "inventor of the Fediverse", on ActivityPub's origins, Mastodon's privacy focus, expanding beyond microblogging, and more (Matthias Pfefferle/Open Channels FM)
https://openchannels.fm/how-decentrali

How Decentralized Social Platforms Grew from Identica to Modern-Day Mastodon
Join Matthias Pfefferle and Evan Prodromou as they explore the evolution of decentralized social networks and the future of the Fediverse.

I just enabled the AP compatibility of the #DWebYVR Ghost site, which can be followed at @…
You can also subscribe by email on the website https://

DWeb Vancouver
Decentralized web and community collaboration in Vancouver|

Rationally Analyzing Shelby: Proving Incentive Compatibility in a Decentralized Storage Network
Michael Crystal, Guy Goren, Scott Duke Kominers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11866 …

Rationally Analyzing Shelby: Proving Incentive Compatibility in a Decentralized Storage Network
Decentralized storage is one of the most natural applications built on blockchains and a central component of the Web3 ecosystem. Yet despite a decade of active development -- from IPFS and Filecoin to more recent entrants -- most of these storage protocols have received limited formal analysis of their incentive properties. Claims of incentive compatibility are sometimes made, but rarely proven. This gap matters: without well-designed incentives, a system may distribute storage but fail to tru…

Banning controversy reveals #Bluesky’s #decentralized aspiration isn’t reality
https://plus.flux.community/p…

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/

Hey Bluesky users, I see your responses, but since you’re not bridging, I can't interact with you.
If you use this (https://fed.brid.gy/) then I could interact and reply. Cheers :)

Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

@… In my mind the competition is with the big global centralized platforms… and so any decentralized systems are welcome! Different communities will form on different platforms. And if this brings some of the enthusiasm from BlueSky and gets people using decentralized systems (assuming they do make it more decentralized), then in the big picture, …

A Scalable, Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Data Sharing Framework based on Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Hui Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09715 https://

A Scalable, Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Data Sharing Framework based on Zero-Knowledge Proofs
With the proliferation of decentralized applications (DApps), the conflict between the transparency of blockchain technology and user data privacy has become increasingly prominent. While Decentralized Identity (DID) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) provide a standardized framework for user data sovereignty, achieving trusted identity verification and data sharing without compromising privacy remains a significant challenge. This paper proposes a novel, comprehensive framework that integrates D…

An interview with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/magazin

The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
Attacks on the site are piling up. Its co-founder says trust the process.

Bee Maps, a decentralized mapping project powered by Hivemapper on the Solana blockchain, raised $32M to expand its network by distributing AI-enabled dashcams (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/10/06/bee-maps-r…

Bee Maps Raises $32M to Scale Solana-Powered Decentralized Mapping Network
The fresh capital will be used to distribute more devices, enhance AI models that process and update map features, and boost contributor incentives.

An Adaptive Responsible AI Governance Framework for Decentralized Organizations
Kiana Jafari Meimandi, Anka Reuel, Gabriela Aranguiz-Dias, Hatim Rahama, Ala-Eddine Ayadi, Xavier Boullier, J\'er\'emy Verdo, Louis Montanie, Mykel Kochenderfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03368

An Adaptive Responsible AI Governance Framework for Decentralized Organizations
This paper examines the assessment challenges of Responsible AI (RAI) governance efforts in globally decentralized organizations through a case study collaboration between a leading research university and a multinational enterprise. While there are many proposed frameworks for RAI, their application in complex organizational settings with distributed decision-making authority remains underexplored. Our RAI assessment, conducted across multiple business units and AI use cases, reveals four key …

A Framework for Distributed Resource Allocation in Quantum Networks
Nitish K. Panigrahy, Leonardo Bacciottini, C. V. Hollot, Emily A. Van Milligen, Matheus Guedes de Andrade, Nageswara S. V. Rao, Gayane Vardoyan, Don Towsley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09371

A Framework for Distributed Resource Allocation in Quantum Networks
We introduce a distributed resource allocation framework for the Quantum Internet that relies on feedback-based, fully decentralized coordination to serve multiple co-existing applications. We develop quantum network control algorithms under the mathematical framework of Quantum Network Utility Maximization (QNUM), where utility functions quantify network performance by mapping entanglement rate and quality into a joint optimization objective. We then introduce QPrimal-Dual, a decentralized, sc…

R3R: Decentralized Multi-Agent Collision Avoidance with Infinite-Horizon Safety
Thomas Marshall Vielmetti, Devansh R. Agrawal, Dimitra Panagou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06436 h…

R3R: Decentralized Multi-Agent Collision Avoidance with Infinite-Horizon Safety
Existing decentralized methods for multi-agent motion planning lack formal, infinite-horizon safety guarantees, especially for communication-constrained systems. We present R3R, to our knowledge the first decentralized and asynchronous framework for multi-agent motion planning under distance-based communication constraints with infinite-horizon safety guarantees for systems of nonlinear agents. R3R's novelty lies in combining our gatekeeper safety framework with a geometric constraint called R-…

Decentralized CBF-based Safety Filters for Collision Avoidance of Cooperative Missile Systems with Input Constraints
Johannes Autenrieb, Mark Spiller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06846

Decentralized CBF-based Safety Filters for Collision Avoidance of Cooperative Missile Systems with Input Constraints
This paper presents a decentralized safety filter for collision avoidance in multi-agent aerospace interception scenarios. The approach leverages robust control barrier functions (RCBFs) to guarantee forward invariance of safety sets under bounded inputs and high-relative-degree dynamics. Each effector executes its nominal cooperative guidance command, while a local quadratic program (QP) modifies the input only when necessary. Event-triggered activation based on range and zero-effort miss (ZEM…

»TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga:
TikTok has signed a deal to divest its U.S. entity to a joint venture controlled by American investors, per an internal memo seen by Axios«
When will the children & young people (all people) finally realize that dss Internet is decentralized and not about a few power-hungry corporations?
(A rhetorical question in my dream of freedom)
🤷

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

The Economic Impact of DeFi Crime Events on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
Stefan Kitzler, Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Bernhard Haslhofer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00669

The Economic Impact of DeFi Crime Events on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
The Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem has experienced over \$10 billion in direct losses due to crime events. Beyond these immediate losses, such events often trigger broader market reactions, including price declines, trading activity changes, and reductions in market capitalization. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) govern DeFi applications through tradable governance assets that function like corporate shares for voting and decision-making. Leveraging DeFi's granular trading…

A Decentralized Microservice Scheduling Approach Using Service Mesh in Cloud-Edge Systems
Yangyang Wen, Paul Townend, Per-Olov \"Ostberg, Abel Souza, Cl\'ement Courageux-Sudan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11189

A Decentralized Microservice Scheduling Approach Using Service Mesh in Cloud-Edge Systems
As microservice-based systems scale across the cloud-edge continuum, traditional centralized scheduling mechanisms increasingly struggle with latency, coordination overhead, and fault tolerance. This paper presents a new architectural direction: leveraging service mesh sidecar proxies as decentralized, in-situ schedulers to enable scalable, low-latency coordination in large-scale, cloud-native environments. We propose embedding lightweight, autonomous scheduling logic into each sidecar, allowin…

DeMuon: A Decentralized Muon for Matrix Optimization over Graphs
Chuan He, Shuyi Ren, Jingwei Mao, Erik G. Larsson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01377 https://

DeMuon: A Decentralized Muon for Matrix Optimization over Graphs
In this paper, we propose DeMuon, a method for decentralized matrix optimization over a given communication topology. DeMuon incorporates matrix orthogonalization via Newton-Schulz iterations-a technique inherited from its centralized predecessor, Muon-and employs gradient tracking to mitigate heterogeneity among local functions. Under heavy-tailed noise conditions and additional mild assumptions, we establish the iteration complexity of DeMuon for reaching an approximate stochastic stationary …

Just arrived in #strasbourg for the #matrixconf2025 . Messaging systems need to become decentralized and we are working on it!

I see, for a decentralized social network we have to choose between OpenWaffles and LibreWaffles

Q&A with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/magazin

The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
Attacks on the site are piling up. Its co-founder says trust the process.

Zero-Shot Decentralized Federated Learning
Alessio Masano, Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Concetto Spampinato, Giovanni Bellitto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26462 h…

Zero-Shot Decentralized Federated Learning
CLIP has revolutionized zero-shot learning by enabling task generalization without fine-tuning. While prompting techniques like CoOp and CoCoOp enhance CLIP's adaptability, their effectiveness in Federated Learning (FL) remains an open challenge. Existing federated prompt learning approaches, such as FedCoOp and FedTPG, improve performance but face generalization issues, high communication costs, and reliance on a central server, limiting scalability and privacy. We propose Zero-shot Decentrali…

Paris: A Decentralized Trained Open-Weight Diffusion Model
Zhiying Jiang, Raihan Seraj, Marcos Villagra, Bidhan Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03434 https://

Paris: A Decentralized Trained Open-Weight Diffusion Model
We present Paris, the first publicly released diffusion model pre-trained entirely through decentralized computation. Paris demonstrates that high-quality text-to-image generation can be achieved without centrally coordinated infrastructure. Paris is open for research and commercial use. Paris required implementing our Distributed Diffusion Training framework from scratch. The model consists of 8 expert diffusion models (129M-605M parameters each) trained in complete isolation with no gradient,…

The Strength of Local Structures in Decentralized Network Formation
Jose M. Betancourt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10997 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10997

The Strength of Local Structures in Decentralized Network Formation
I study dynamic network formation games in which agents assign arbitrary values to network structures. Any such game admits an equivalent representation in terms of the values agents assign to its sub-structures, linking local valuations to equilibrium behavior. The game is a potential game precisely when all participants in a structure value it equally, yielding a closed-form stationary distribution. When valuations are restricted to a finite set of repeated sub-structures, or motifs, the mode…

Putting the finishing touches on my presentation at @… next weekend. "The #Fediverse: Embracing the Hacker Ethos for a Decentralized Social Media Experience". We may even have a special guest join us, @…

Differentially-Private Decentralized Learning in Heterogeneous Multicast Networks
Amir Ziaeddini, Yauhen Yakimenka, J\"org Kliewer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21688 https://…

Differentially-Private Decentralized Learning in Heterogeneous Multicast Networks
We propose a power-controlled differentially private decentralized learning algorithm designed for a set of clients aiming to collaboratively train a common learning model. The network is characterized by a row-stochastic adjacency matrix, which reflects different channel gains between the clients. In our privacy-preserving approach, both the transmit power for model updates and the level of injected Gaussian noise are jointly controlled to satisfy a given privacy and energy budget. We show tha…

MeshCore is opensource
The foundation of MeshCore is developed primarily by a single developer who is incredibly hardworking, dedicated and idealistic about keeping everything he does fully open. The firmware and protocol specification are completely open, allowing anyone to create a client app or perform security audits on the device firmware implementation. Just hop over to the meshcore-dev github repo and have a look. There are also open source command line, python and javascript cl…

from my link log —
Vivaldi: a decentralized network coordinate system for predicting RTT.
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/vivaldi:sigcomm/paper.pdf
saved 2025-11-04

I have missed that bridge.gy can federate websites as well. That really looks neat and useful…
https://fed.brid.gy/docs#fediverse-get-started

Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

More than $100 million stolen in exploit of Balancer DeFi protocol
https://therecord.media/crypto-heist-balancer-exploit

More than $100 million stolen in exploit of Balancer DeFi protocol
Hackers pilfered millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency on Monday from the decentralized finance protocol Balancer.

North Korean hackers seen using blockchain to hide crypto-stealing malware https://therecord.media/north-korean-hackers-using-blockchain-hiding-malware

Privacy-Preserving On-chain Permissioning for KYC-Compliant Decentralized Applications
Fabian Piper, Karl Wolf, Jonathan Heiss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05807 https://

Privacy-Preserving On-chain Permissioning for KYC-Compliant Decentralized Applications
Decentralized applications (dApps) in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) face a fundamental tension between regulatory compliance requirements like Know Your Customer (KYC) and maintaining decentralization and privacy. Existing permissioned DeFi solutions often fail to adequately protect private attributes of dApp users and introduce implicit trust assumptions, undermining the blockchain's decentralization. Addressing these limitations, this paper presents a novel synthesis of Self-Sovereign Identity…

Farewell to Westphalia: Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governaance
Jarrad Hope, Peter Ludlow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09840 https://arxiv.org/p…

Farewell to Westphalia: Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governaance
We argue that the principal application for blockchain technology will not be in the financial sector, but rather in maintaining decentralized human governance, from archives to transparent policies encoded in the blockchain in the form of smart contracts.. Such decentralized, blockchain-grounded governance comes not a moment too soon, as nation states are dissolving before our eyes. Will blockchain-based communities replace the nation state? What are the prospects and dangers of this developme…

Have We Scene It All? Scene Graph-Aware Deep Point Cloud Compression
Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos, Christoforos Kanellakis, George Nikolakopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08512 ht…

Have We Scene It All? Scene Graph-Aware Deep Point Cloud Compression
Efficient transmission of 3D point cloud data is critical for advanced perception in centralized and decentralized multi-agent robotic systems, especially nowadays with the growing reliance on edge and cloud-based processing. However, the large and complex nature of point clouds creates challenges under bandwidth constraints and intermittent connectivity, often degrading system performance. We propose a deep compression framework based on semantic scene graphs. The method decomposes point cloud…

Go With The Flow: Churn-Tolerant Decentralized Training of Large Language Models
Nikolay Blagoev, Bart Cox, J\'er\'emie Decouchant, Lydia Y. Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21221

Go With The Flow: Churn-Tolerant Decentralized Training of Large Language Models
Motivated by the emergence of large language models (LLMs) and the importance of democratizing their training, we propose GWTF, the first crash tolerant practical decentralized training framework for LLMs. Differently from existing distributed and federated training frameworks, GWTF enables the efficient collaborative training of a LLM on heterogeneous clients that volunteer their resources. In addition, GWTF addresses node churn, i.e., clients joining or leaving the system at any time, and net…

Inside Hyperliquid, a booming DEX for perpetual crypto futures still controlled by a small insider group, raising questions about how decentralized it really is (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Impossible Cloud Network: A Decentralized Internet Infrastructure Layer
Siu Kei Chung, Francisco Carpio, Andrei Navoichyk, Siarhei Valasovich, Jordan Moore, Slobodan Sudaric-Hefner, Daniel Baker, Thomas Demoor, Maurizio Binello, Christian Kaul, Kai Wawrzinek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04620

Impossible Cloud Network: A Decentralized Internet Infrastructure Layer
The internet faces a sovereignty crisis due to power concentration and data growth among a few hyperscalers, leading to centralization and loss of user control. This consolidation risks censorship and creates single points of failure. While Web3 offers decentralized solutions, they often sacrifice either scalability, decentralization, or security, which are key elements in the blockchain trilemma. These solutions also struggle with limited access to enterprise-grade hardware and frequently rely…

Mastodon, the decentralized, open social network with over 8 million accounts and nearly 700,000 monthly active users,
is planning to introduce a new feature, called “Packs,”
which will make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow.
The idea is similar to a feature Bluesky, another open social platform, introduced last year.
Starter packs are designed to address the “cold start” problem of joining new social networks.
When you …

Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter 'Packs' | TechCrunch
Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.

GCVE-BCP-05 - GCVE Vulnerability Format (Updated CVE Record Format) has been published as DRAFT and ready for public review.
The standard is similar to the @… record format with some extensions (via the X_ prefixes) for GCVE format and the reference implementation vulnerability-lookup. This allows some flexibility and innovation in GNA - GCVE space w…

Interview with Eugen Rochko, creator of Mastodon https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/

In Canada, the CBC might be the kind of entity to help run / coordinate “public service social media” as described in this Tech Policy Press article https://www.techpolicy.press/public-service-social-media-as-a-democratic-safeguard/
With interop…

Networked Control and Mean Field Problems Under Diagonal Dominance: Decentralized and Social Optimality
Vivek Khatana, Duo Wang, Petros Voulgaris, Nicola Elia, Naira Hovakimyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01067

Networked Control and Mean Field Problems Under Diagonal Dominance: Decentralized and Social Optimality
In this article, we employ an input-output approach to expand the study of cooperative multi-agent control and optimization problems characterized by mean-field interactions that admit decentralized and selfish solutions. The setting involves $n$ independent agents that interact solely through a shared cost function, which penalizes deviations of each agent from the group's average collective behavior. Building on our earlier results established for homogeneous agents, we extend the framework t…

Extensions of a Line-Graph-Based Method for Token Routing in Decentralized Exchanges
Yu Zhang, Claudio J. Tessone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21152 https://…

Extensions of a Line-Graph-Based Method for Token Routing in Decentralized Exchanges
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) form a cornerstone of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, processing token trades worth billions of dollars daily. Yet, a significant fraction of these trades are suboptimal: alternative routing paths could yield more target tokens. Addressing this inefficiency is both practically urgent and theoretically compelling. Building on the linear line-graph-based routing method of Zhang et al. (2025), we propose three key extensions that better capture real-world…

TIL about Solid, Tim Berners-Lee's proposed decentralised web data project.
Open, decentralised, in the process of W3C standardisation, and commercially backed by his startup supporting it, Inrupt.
https://solidproject.org/
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All we're asking is for y'all to catch up on some history so you understand what you're coming into. Even #NoKings grew from #50501Movement, which started as a decentralized protest before being taken over by the nonprofit industrial complex. Antifa networks were doxxing fash hard through the first Trump admin, but those networks go all the way back to the 80's... And they inherited an even older tradition. If you really want to get down to it, the whole "no kings" thing in Europe was at the very least heavily influenced by indigenous folks in the so-called Americas. There's a lot of history that's lead to this moment, and it's kind of all relevant to understanding how we got here and how we actually get out.

PolyLink: A Blockchain Based Decentralized Edge AI Platform for LLM Inference
Hongbo Liu, Jiannong Cao, Bo Yang, Dongbin Bai, Yinfeng Cao, Xiaoming Shen, Yinan Zhang, Jinwen Liang, Shan Jiang, Mingjin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02395

PolyLink: A Blockchain Based Decentralized Edge AI Platform for LLM Inference
The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) in recent years has revolutionized the AI landscape. However, the deployment model and usage of LLM services remain highly centralized, creating significant trust issues and costs for end users and developers. To address these issues, we propose PolyLink, a blockchain-based decentralized AI platform that decentralizes LLM development and inference. Specifically, PolyLink introduces a decentralized crowdsourcing architecture that supports sin…

Decentralized and Self-adaptive Core Maintenance on Temporal Graphs
Davide Rucci, Emanuele Carlini, Patrizio Dazzi, Hanna Kavalionak, Matteo Mordacchini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00758

Decentralized and Self-adaptive Core Maintenance on Temporal Graphs
Key graph-based problems play a central role in understanding network topology and uncovering patterns of similarity in homogeneous and temporal data. Such patterns can be revealed by analyzing communities formed by nodes, which in turn can be effectively modeled through temporal $k$-cores. This paper introduces a novel decentralized and incremental algorithm for computing the core decomposition of temporal networks. Decentralized solutions leverage the ability of network nodes to communicate a…

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@… https://typo.social/@nicksherman/115318421396987657

Cooperative Flexibility Exchange: Fair and Comfort-Aware Decentralized Resource Allocation
Rabiya Khalid, Evangelos Pournaras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04192 https://

Cooperative Flexibility Exchange: Fair and Comfort-Aware Decentralized Resource Allocation
The growing electricity demand and increased use of smart appliances are placing new pressures on power grids, making efficient energy management more important than ever. The existing energy management systems often prioritize system efficiency (balanced energy demand and supply) at the expense of user comfort. This paper addresses this gap by proposing a novel decentralized multi-agent coordination-based demand-side management system. The proposed system enables individual agents to coordinat…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.SI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SI/new
[1/1]:
- Chisme: Fully Decentralized Differentiated Deep Learning for IoT Intelligence
Harikrishna Kuttivelil, Katia Obraczka

Anarcho-syndicalism is the belief that workers, as the fundamental producers of social value, must seize control of the means of production through direct action and autonomous organization. It rejects both capitalist private ownership and state-controlled systems, arguing instead for a decentralized federation of worker-managed industries. From my perspective, anarcho-syndicalism is not merely an economic strategy but a revolutionary theory of social transformation, one that places the work…

Mechanism design and equilibrium analysis of smart contract mediated resource allocation
Jinho Cha, Justin Yoo, Eunchan Daniel Cha, Emily Yoo, Caedon Geoffrey, Hyoshin Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05504

Mechanism design and equilibrium analysis of smart contract mediated resource allocation
Decentralized coordination and digital contracting are becoming critical in complex industrial ecosystems, yet existing approaches often rely on ad hoc heuristics or purely technical blockchain implementations without a rigorous economic foundation. This study develops a mechanism design framework for smart contract-based resource allocation that explicitly embeds efficiency and fairness in decentralized coordination. We establish the existence and uniqueness of contract equilibria, extending c…

Adding All Flavors: A Hybrid Random Number Generator for dApps and Web3
Ranjith Chodavarapu, Rabimba Karanjai, Xinxin Fan, Weidong Shi, Lei Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12062 h…

Adding All Flavors: A Hybrid Random Number Generator for dApps and Web3
Random numbers play a vital role in many decentralized applications (dApps), such as gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. Existing random number provision mechanisms can be roughly divided into two categories, on-chain, and off-chain. On-chain approaches usually rely on the blockchain as the major input and all computations are done by blockchain nodes. The major risk for this type of method is that the input itself is susceptible to the adversary's influence. Off-chain…

Decentralized Detection with Many Sensors: Optimality of Exchangeable and Identical Encoding Policies
Sina Sanjari, Naci Saldi, Sinan Gezici, Serdar Y\"uksel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21724

Decentralized Detection with Many Sensors: Optimality of Exchangeable and Identical Encoding Policies
We study a class of binary detection problems involving a single fusion center and a large or countably infinite number of sensors. Each sensor acts under a decentralized information structure, accessing only a local noisy observation related to the hypothesis. Based on this observation, sensors select policies to transmit a quantized signal through their actions to the fusion center, which makes the final decision using only these actions. This paper makes the following contributions: i) In th…

FLEET: Formal Language-Grounded Scheduling for Heterogeneous Robot Teams
Corban Rivera, Grayson Byrd, Meghan Booker, Bethany Kemp, Allison Gaines, Emma Holmes, James Uplinger, Celso M de Melo, David Handelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07417

FLEET: Formal Language-Grounded Scheduling for Heterogeneous Robot Teams
Coordinating heterogeneous robot teams from free-form natural-language instructions is hard. Language-only planners struggle with long-horizon coordination and hallucination, while purely formal methods require closed-world models. We present FLEET, a hybrid decentralized framework that turns language into optimized multi-robot schedules. An LLM front-end produces (i) a task graph with durations and precedence and (ii) a capability-aware robot--task fitness matrix; a formal back-end solves a ma…

Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/378358/lighte

Parallax: Efficient LLM Inference Service over Decentralized Environment
Chris Tong, Youhe Jiang, Gufeng Chen, Tianyi Zhao, Sibian Lu, Wenjie Qu, Eric Yang, Lynn Ai, Binhang Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26182

Parallax: Efficient LLM Inference Service over Decentralized Environment
Deploying a large language model (LLM) inference service remains costly because centralized serving depends on specialized GPU clusters and high-bandwidth interconnects in datacenters. An appealing alternative is to leverage collaborative decentralized GPU pools. However, heterogeneity in GPU and limited interconnected network bandwidth, along with potentially dynamic availability, make efficient scheduling the central challenge in this scenario. In this paper, we present Parallax, a decentrali…

VeriLLM: A Lightweight Framework for Publicly Verifiable Decentralized Inference
Ke Wang, Felix Qu, Libin Xia, Zishuo Zhao, Chris Tong, Lynn Ai, Eric Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24257

VeriLLM: A Lightweight Framework for Publicly Verifiable Decentralized Inference
Decentralized inference is an appealing paradigm for serving large language models (LLMs), offering strong security, high efficiency, and lower operating costs. Yet the permissionless setting admits no a priori trust in participating nodes, making output verifiability a prerequisite for secure deployment. We present VeriLLM, a publicly verifiable protocol for decentralized LLM inference that (i) achieves security under a one-honest-verifier assumption, (ii) attains near-negligible verification …

Learning to Lead Themselves: Agentic AI in MAS using MARL
Ansh Kamthan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00022 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00022

Learning to Lead Themselves: Agentic AI in MAS using MARL
As autonomous systems move from prototypes to real deployments, the ability of multiple agents to make decentralized, cooperative decisions becomes a core requirement. This paper examines how agentic artificial intelligence, agents that act independently, adaptively and proactively can improve task allocation and coordination in multi-agent systems, with primary emphasis on drone delivery and secondary relevance to warehouse automation. We formulate the problem in a cooperative multi-agent rein…

Some countries just don’t make sense to me, as I feel more connected to my community than to any nation.
That’s why I love #Linux, it’s decentralized, and I get to decide how my computer looks, feels, and runs.

Optimizing Fronthaul Quantization for Flexible User Load in Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Fabian G\"ottsch, Max Franke, Arash Pourdamghani, Giuseppe Caire, Stefan Schmid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06734 …

Optimizing Fronthaul Quantization for Flexible User Load in Cell-Free Massive MIMO
We investigate the physical layer (PHY) spectral efficiency and fronthaul network load of a scalable user-centric cell-free massive MIMO system. Each user-centric cluster processor responsible for cluster-level signal processing is located at one of multiple decentralized units (DUs). Thus, the radio units in the cluster must exchange data with the corresponding DU over the fronthaul. Because the fronthaul links have limited capacity, this data must be quantized before it is sent over the front…

Federated Unlearning in the Wild: Rethinking Fairness and Data Discrepancy
ZiHeng Huang, Di Wu, Jun Bai, Jiale Zhang, Sicong Cao, Ji Zhang, Yingjie Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07022

Federated Unlearning in the Wild: Rethinking Fairness and Data Discrepancy
Machine unlearning is critical for enforcing data deletion rights like the "right to be forgotten." As a decentralized paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) also requires unlearning, but realistic implementations face two major challenges. First, fairness in Federated Unlearning (FU) is often overlooked. Exact unlearning methods typically force all clients into costly retraining, even those uninvolved. Approximate approaches, using gradient ascent or distillation, make coarse interventions that can…

Sei partners with Xiaomi to pre-install its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/0…

Sei Wallets to Come Pre-Installed on Millions of Xiaomi Phones
The app will enable peer-to-peer payments, access to decentralized apps, and Web3 exploration, as well as stablecoin payments in retail stores.

TracE2E: Easily Deployable Middleware for Decentralized Data Traceability
Daniel Pressens\'e, Elisavet Kozyri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08225 https://…

TracE2E: Easily Deployable Middleware for Decentralized Data Traceability
This paper presents TracE2E, a middleware written in Rust, that can provide both data explainability and compliance across multiple nodes. By mediating inputs and outputs of processes, TracE2E records provenance information and enforces data-protection policies (e.g., confidentiality, integrity) that depend on the recorded provenance. Unlike existing approaches that necessitate substantial application modifications, TracE2E is designed for easy integration into existing and future applications …

The DWeb HQ team @… is working on DWeb Camp 2026. Give them feedback on where in the world you think would be a fit.
https://social.coop/@dweb/115424781985654403…

Correlation-Aware Dual-View Pose and Velocity Estimation for Dynamic Robotic Manipulation
Mahboubeh Zarei, Robin Chhabra, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05536

Correlation-Aware Dual-View Pose and Velocity Estimation for Dynamic Robotic Manipulation
Accurate pose and velocity estimation is essential for effective spatial task planning in robotic manipulators. While centralized sensor fusion has traditionally been used to improve pose estimation accuracy, this paper presents a novel decentralized fusion approach to estimate both pose and velocity. We use dual-view measurements from an eye-in-hand and an eye-to-hand vision sensor configuration mounted on a manipulator to track a target object whose motion is modeled as random walk (stochasti…

Centralized vs. Decentralized Security for Space AI Systems? A New Look
Noam Schmitt (IP Paris, TSP, ENS Paris Saclay), Marc Antoine Lacoste
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20395 htt…

Centralized vs. Decentralized Security for Space AI Systems? A New Look
This paper investigates the trade-off between centralized and decentralized security management in constellations of satellites to balance security and performance. We highlight three key AI architectures for automated security management: (a) centralized, (b) distributed and (c) federated. The centralized architecture is the best option short term, providing fast training, despite the hard challenge of the communication latency overhead across space. Decentralized architectures are better alte…

Lattica: A Decentralized Cross-NAT Communication Framework for Scalable AI Inference and Training
Ween Yang, Jason Liu, Suli Wang, Xinyuan Song, Lynn Ai, Eric Yang, Tianyu Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00183

Lattica: A Decentralized Cross-NAT Communication Framework for Scalable AI Inference and Training
The rapid expansion of distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads beyond centralized data centers creates a demand for new communication substrates. These substrates must operate reliably in heterogeneous and permissionless environments, where Network Address Translators (NATs) and firewalls impose significant constraints. Existing solutions, however, are either designed for controlled data center deployments or implemented as monolithic systems that tightly couple machine learning logi…

Tigris, which is building a network of localized data storage centers that it claims can meet the compute needs of AI workloads, raised a $25M Series A (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/this-distributed-data-stor…

This distributed data storage startup wants to take on Big Cloud | TechCrunch
Tigris has raised $25 million to expand its growing network of localized data storage centers — the storage layer for decentralized computing infrastructure.

Zero Trust-based Decentralized Identity Management System for Autonomous Vehicles
Amal Yousseef, Shalaka Satam, Banafsheh Saber Latibari, Mai Abdel-Malek, Soheil Salehi, Pratik Satam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25566

Zero Trust-based Decentralized Identity Management System for Autonomous Vehicles
The rise of autonomous vehicles (AVs) promises to significantly enhance transportation safety and efficiency by mitigating human error, which is responsible for over 90\% of road accidents. However, the increasing connectivity of AVs introduces new cybersecurity challenges, as traditional perimeter-based security models are inadequate for dynamic and untrusted environments. This paper presents a novel Zero Trust-based Decentralized Identity Management (D-IM) protocol for AVs. By integrating the…

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- Rationally Analyzing Shelby: Proving Incentive Compatibility in a Decentralized Storage Network
Michael Crystal, Guy Goren, Scott Duke Kominers

Decentralized exchange Ostium raised a $20M Series A led by General Catalyst and Jump Trading, a source says at a ~$250M valuation, after previously raising $8M (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/03/ostium-series-a-fundraise-perpetuals-perps-cry…

Exclusive: Harvard grads raise $20 million for Ostium, a platform focused on a derivative popular with crypto traders
The marquee investors General Catalyst and Jump Crypto led the funding round.

A distributed routing protocol for sending data from things to the cloud leveraging fog technology in the large-scale IoT ecosystem
Mohammad Reza Akbari, Hamid Barati, Ali Barati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03524

A distributed routing protocol for sending data from things to the cloud leveraging fog technology in the large-scale IoT ecosystem
Fog computing integrates cloud and edge resources. According to an intelligent and decentralized method, this technology processes data generated by IoT sensors to seamlessly integrate physical and cyber environments. Internet of Things uses wireless and smart objects. They communicate with each other, monitor the environment, collect information, and respond to user requests. These objects have limited energy resources since they use batteries to supply energy. Also, they cannot replace their …

dHPR: A Distributed Halpern Peaceman--Rachford Method for Non-smooth Distributed Optimization Problems
Zhangcheng Feng, Defeng Sun, Yancheng Yuan, Guojun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10069 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10069 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10069
arXiv:2511.10069v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper introduces the distributed Halpern Peaceman--Rachford (dHPR) method, an efficient algorithm for solving distributed convex composite optimization problems with non-smooth objectives, which achieves a non-ergodic $O(1/k)$ iteration complexity regarding Karush--Kuhn--Tucker residual. By leveraging the symmetric Gauss--Seidel decomposition, the dHPR effectively decouples the linear operators in the objective functions and consensus constraints while maintaining parallelizability and avoiding additional large proximal terms, leading to a decentralized implementation with provably fast convergence. The superior performance of dHPR is demonstrated through comprehensive numerical experiments on distributed LASSO, group LASSO, and $L_1$-regularized logistic regression problems.
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Privacy Preserved Federated Learning with Attention-Based Aggregation for Biometric Recognition
Kassahun Azezew, Minyechil Alehegn, Tsega Asresa, Bitew Mekuria, Tizazu Bayh, Ayenew Kassie, Amsalu Tesema, Animut Embiyale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01113

Privacy Preserved Federated Learning with Attention-Based Aggregation for Biometric Recognition
Because biometric data is sensitive, centralized training poses a privacy risk, even though biometric recognition is essential for contemporary applications. Federated learning (FL), which permits decentralized training, provides a privacy-preserving substitute. Conventional FL, however, has trouble with interpretability and heterogeneous data (non-IID). In order to handle non-IID biometric data, this framework adds an attention mechanism at the central server that weights local model updates a…

Toxic Ink on Immutable Paper: Content Moderation for Ethereum Input Data Messages (IDMs)
Xihan Xiong, Zhipeng Wang, Qin Wang, William Knottenbelt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10761

Toxic Ink on Immutable Paper: Content Moderation for Ethereum Input Data Messages (IDMs)
Decentralized communication is becoming an important use case within Web3. On Ethereum, users can repurpose the transaction input data field to embed natural-language messages, commonly known as Input Data Messages (IDMs). However, as IDMs gain wider adoption, there has been a growing volume of toxic content on-chain. This trend is concerning, as Ethereum provides no protocol-level support for content moderation. We propose two moderation frameworks for Ethereum IDMs: (i) BUILDERMOD, where bu…

TAP: Two-Stage Adaptive Personalization of Multi-task and Multi-Modal Foundation Models in Federated Learning
Seohyun Lee, Wenzhi Fang, Dong-Jun Han, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour, Christopher G. Brinton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26524

TAP: Two-Stage Adaptive Personalization of Multi-task and Multi-Modal Foundation Models in Federated Learning
Federated Learning (FL), despite demonstrating impressive capabilities in the training of multiple models in a decentralized manner, has been shown to produce a final model not necessarily well-suited to the needs of each client. While extensive work has been conducted on how to create tailored personalized models, called Personalized Federated Learning (PFL), less attention has been given to personalization via fine-tuning of foundation models with multi-task and multi-modal properties. Moreov…

Are Voters Willing to Collectively Secure Elections? Unraveling a Practical Blockchain Voting System
Zhuolun Li, Haluk Sonmezler, Faiza Shirazi, Febin Shaji, Tymoteusz Mroczkowski, Dexter Lardner, Matthew Alain Camus, Evangelos Pournaras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08700

Are Voters Willing to Collectively Secure Elections? Unraveling a Practical Blockchain Voting System
Ensuring ballot secrecy is critical for fair and trustworthy electronic voting systems, yet achieving strong secrecy guarantees in decentralized, large-scale elections remains challenging. This paper proposes the concept of collectively secure voting, in which voters themselves can opt in as secret holders to protect ballot secrecy. A practical blockchain-based collectively secure voting system is designed and implemented. Our design strikes a balance between strong confidentiality guarantees a…

Adaptive Dual-Mode Distillation with Incentive Schemes for Scalable, Heterogeneous Federated Learning on Non-IID Data
Zahid Iqbal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22507 https://

Adaptive Dual-Mode Distillation with Incentive Schemes for Scalable, Heterogeneous Federated Learning on Non-IID Data
Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising decentralized learning (DL) approach that enables the use of distributed data without compromising user privacy. However, FL poses several key challenges. First, it is frequently assumed that every client can train the same machine learning models, however, not all clients are able to meet this assumption because of differences in their business needs and computational resources. Second, statistical heterogeneity (a.k.a. non-IID data) poses a m…

Federated Flow Matching
Zifan Wang, Anqi Dong, Mahmoud Selim, Michael M. Zavlanos, Karl H. Johansson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21250 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Federated Flow Matching
Data today is decentralized, generated and stored across devices and institutions where privacy, ownership, and regulation prevent centralization. This motivates the need to train generative models directly from distributed data locally without central aggregation. In this paper, we introduce Federated Flow Matching (FFM), a framework for training flow matching models under privacy constraints. Specifically, we first examine FFM-vanilla, where each client trains locally with independent source …

Fairness in Token Delegation: Mitigating Voting Power Concentration in DAOs
Johnnatan Messias, Ayae Ide
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05830 https://arxiv.org/…

Fairness in Token Delegation: Mitigating Voting Power Concentration in DAOs
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) aim to enable participatory governance, but in practice face challenges of voter apathy, concentration of voting power, and misaligned delegation. Existing delegation mechanisms often reinforce visibility biases, where a small set of highly ranked delegates accumulate disproportionate influence regardless of their alignment with the broader community. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of delegation in DAO governance, combining on-chain da…

The Dark Art of Financial Disguise in Web3: Money Laundering Schemes and Countermeasures
Hesam Sarkhosh, Uzma Maroof, Diogo Barradas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21831 https://

The Dark Art of Financial Disguise in Web3: Money Laundering Schemes and Countermeasures
The rise of Web3 and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has enabled borderless access to financial services empowered by smart contracts and blockchain technology. However, the ecosystem's trustless, permissionless, and borderless nature presents substantial regulatory challenges. The absence of centralized oversight and the technical complexity create fertile ground for financial crimes. Among these, money laundering is particularly concerning, as in the event of successful scams, code exploits, and…