Luyao Zhang

7 papers in the archive (2022–2026), average empirical rigor 6.3/10, average math complexity 3.5/10. Quadrant mix: Holy Grail ×2, Philosophers ×2, Street Traders ×3.

Works mostly in Crypto Markets & DeFi, High-Frequency Trading & Optimal Execution, NLP & LLMs in Finance, Machine Learning for Market Forecasting.

Frequent co-authors: Lin William Cong (2), Yufan Zhang (1), Zichao Chen (1), Yutong Sun (1), Yulin Liu (1), Yihang Fu (1).

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Is Decentralized Finance Actually Decentralized? An Interdisciplinary Framework Integrating Network Theory, Agent-Based Simulation, and Longitudinal Evidence from Aave, GHO Issuance, and Cross-Chain Expansion

Decentralized finance (DeFi) can broaden access while leaving activity, network position, and infrastructure concentrated. We develop a four-dimensional framework for participation, activity distribution, structural position, and infrastructure dependence, integrating network theory, theorem-consist

Monotonicity for AI ethics and society: An empirical study of the monotonic neural additive model in criminology, education, health care, and finance

Algorithm fairness in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) is essential for a better society. As the foundational axiom of social mechanisms, fairness consists of multiple facets. Although the machine learning (ML) community has focused on intersectionality as a matter of statistical pari

SoK: Stablecoins for Digital Transformation -- Design, Metrics, and Application with Real World Asset Tokenization as a Case Study

Stablecoins have become a foundational component of the digital asset ecosystem, with their market capitalization exceeding 230 billion USD as of May 2025. As fiat-referenced and programmable assets, stablecoins provide low-latency, globally interoperable infrastructure for payments, decentralized f

Blockchain Network Analysis: A Comparative Study of Decentralized Banks

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is known for its unique mechanism design, which applies smart contracts to facilitate peer-to-peer transactions. The decentralized bank is a typical DeFi application. Ideally, a decentralized bank should be decentralized in the transaction. However, many recent studies h

Trust Dynamics in Cryptocurrency Markets: Centralized vs. Decentralized Exchanges

Trust mechanisms diverge between centralized and decentralized exchanges, representing distinct sociotechnical governance paradigms. However, quantifying trust dynamics and their redistribution between these architectures remains empirically challenging, limiting understanding of how institutional s

AI Ethics on Blockchain: Topic Analysis on Twitter Data for Blockchain Security

Blockchain has empowered computer systems to be more secure using a distributed network. However, the current blockchain design suffers from fairness issues in transaction ordering. Miners are able to reorder transactions to generate profits, the so-called miner extractable value (MEV). Existing res

Educational Game on Cryptocurrency Investment: Using Microeconomic Decision Making to Understand Macroeconomics Principles

Gamification is an effective strategy for motivating and engaging users, which is grounded in business, marketing, and management by designing games in nongame contexts. Gamifying education, which consists of the design and study of educational games, is an emerging trend. However, the existing clas

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