Pith Number

pith:R2LTAO4U

pith:2025:R2LTAO4UONIF3BPV6WR2KH56ZT

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Are Crypto Ecosystems (De)centralizing? A Framework for Longitudinal Analysis

Ehsan Valavi, Harang Ju, Madhav Kumar, Sinan Aral

arxiv:2506.02324 v1 · 2025-06-02 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R2LTAO4UONIF3BPV6WR2KH56ZT}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:14:36.394143Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e97303b9473505d85f5f5a3a51fbeccfc700937ba80e60650325b435da90edb

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.02324 · arxiv_version: 2506.02324v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.02324 · pith_short_12: R2LTAO4UONIF · pith_short_16: R2LTAO4UONIF3BPV · pith_short_8: R2LTAO4U

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/R2LTAO4UONIF3BPV6WR2KH56ZT \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 8e97303b9473505d85f5f5a3a51fbeccfc700937ba80e60650325b435da90edb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b49446b0820e92165d56a6cc4d6a8b6d2f9020add564dbb107f6f02ae16682c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-02T23:45:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fd38ab96ae98ec9e199cc3af15680943e591af16397bc958b6127cfe55fe3e63"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.02324",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}