Our Work on Analyzing Player Behavior in Blockchain Games Accepted by ACM FDG’22

Our recent work titled “Towards Understanding Player Behavior in Blockchain Games: A Case Study of Aavegotchi” is accepted by the 17th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2022). Blockchain games introduces unique gameplay and incentive mechanisms by allowing players to be rewarded with in-game assets or tokens through financial activities. In practice, […]

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Our paper “Economic Analysis of Decentralized Exchange Market with Transaction Fee Mining” received the Best Paper Award from ACM BSCI’22!

In this paper, we establish the DEX market with transaction fee mining and formulate our model based on the Hotelling model. Besides, we propose a two-stage game to formulate the interaction between DEXs and users and derive the equilibriums under different conditions of two parameters: the transaction cost difference and users’ stickiness. We show that though the service provider with a lower transaction cost can win the market, users’ stickiness can offset the market advantage. Thus, incentivizing users with transaction fee mining has become a crucial strategy in the duopoly competition.

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Game Launch: Newbie at CUHK(SZ)

Newbie at CUHK(SZ) is a 3D game featuring a voxelized version of our campus. It is developed by the undergraduates of our laboratory for half a year. Through an open world based RPG story, the life of a freshman here is presented to the players. The player will explore the campus, communicate with the staff, and […]

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[Invited Talk] Shengdong Zhao: HeadsUp Computing: Towards the next generation interactive computing

We live in an interesting time. Although we don’t know exactly what the future will be like, transformational change is a certainty. There are several noticeable trends: one is the change of the computing paradigm from reactive to proactive. All major companies are working on this paradigm shift, investing heavily in AI and machine learning. This will redefine the role and responsibility of our personal devices and dramatically change our lifestyles over the next few years.

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