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Piercing the Veil of TVL: DeFi Reappraised

Total value locked (TVL) is widely used to measure the size and popularity of decentralized finance (DeFi). However, TVL can be easily manipulated and inflated through “double counting” activities such as wrapping and leveraging. As existing methodologies addressing double counting are inconsistent

Holy Grail Math 5.5 Rigor 7.5 ·  April 17, 2024

How Well Do LLMs Perform in Peer Review? Evidence from Finance and Accounting

Referees increasingly use large language models (LLMs), while finance and accounting journals disagree about whether to allow it. We ask which part of a referee’s job the models can do. GPT-4o, whose training data end before the 2024 conference season, referees the papers presented at the 2024 AFA a

Street Traders Math 3 Rigor 8 ·  October 13, 2026

Resisting Manipulative Bots in Memecoin Copy Trading: A Multi-Agent Approach with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

The launch of $Trump coin ignited a wave in meme coin investment. Copy trading, as a strategy-agnostic approach that eliminates the need for deep trading knowledge, quickly gains widespread popularity in the meme coin market. However, copy trading is not a guarantee of profitability due to the preva

Street Traders Math 2 Rigor 6 ·  January 13, 2026

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