BlockchainISTReportsResearch reports, analyses and academic publications from the BlockchainIST research team.
An analysis of on-chain perpetual futures venues: their funding-rate mechanics, liquidity models, oracle design and the market-structure implications of fully decentralised derivatives trading.
How equities are being represented on-chain: custody and settlement models, regulatory pathways for tokenised securities, and the institutional infrastructure enabling 24/7 stock markets.
A survey of the NFT landscape beyond collectibles: standards, royalty enforcement, real-world-asset and identity use cases, and the economics of digital ownership.
Where DeFi meets AI: autonomous on-chain agents, AI-driven risk and liquidity management, and the opportunities and systemic risks of machine-operated financial protocols.
The DeSci movement: tokenised research funding, IP-NFTs, reproducibility and open peer review, and how decentralised coordination could reshape scientific incentives.
An examination of protocol-based social networks: portable identity and graphs, content monetisation, moderation trade-offs, and the case for user-owned social infrastructure.
A study of autonomous AI agents transacting on-chain: wallet-holding agents, agent-to-agent payments, identity and trust frameworks, and the economic primitives an agent economy requires.
Bringing off-chain value on-chain: tokenisation of bonds, credit, commodities and real estate, the legal-wrapper and oracle challenges, and institutional adoption of RWA protocols.