Smart contracts allow flexible new forms of trust-free cooperation. This gives mechanism designers a new platform in which they can apply game-theoretical principles to engineer desirable outcomes. However, as we have seen with the emergence of "dark DAOs," hostile attackers can just as easily deploy smart contracts that coordinate collusion and otherwise attempt to undermine the goals of a given game-theoretical structure. Indeed, attacks on incentive structures that would previously have seemed elaborate and difficult to organize can now execute automatically via smart contracts, requiring no trust in the attacker. In this work, we will analyze the " attack" on Schelling point-based cryptoeconomic systems. Particularly, we will consider design choices that one can apply, slightly modifying these systems, to increase resistance to these types of attacks.
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