This paper proposes a decentralized software version control system leveraging blockchain technology. Traditional version control systems suffer from central points of failure, lack of transparency, and limited traceability. This system addresses these shortcomings by utilizing a blockchain to immutably record and manage software version information. The core mechanism involves hashing software versions and storing these hashes on a blockchain, ensuring data integrity and providing a transparent, auditable trail. This approach enhances security, improves transparency, and offers enhanced traceability compared to centralized solutions. The system utilizes a distributed consensus mechanism to maintain blockchain integrity, mitigating the risks associated with a single point of failure. This research explores the feasibility and potential benefits of applying blockchain technology to software version control, representing a novel approach to managing software evolution.
This paper proposes a novel approach to software version control leveraging the inherent properties of blockchain technology. Traditional version control systems suffer from centralized vulnerabilities and single points of failure, leading to potential data loss and compromised integrity. This system addresses these limitations by utilizing blockchain's immutable ledger and distributed storage capabilities. Each software code version is recorded as a transaction on the blockchain, secured by a consensus mechanism. This ensures a complete and verifiable history of code changes, dramatically enhancing security, reliability, and transparency compared to conventional methods. The core claim of this work is that the combination of blockchain's features provides a significantly more robust and trustworthy software version control solution. The system's design incorporates key mechanisms such as transaction hashing, smart contracts for version management, and a distributed consensus protocol to guarantee data integrity and consistency. The resulting architecture offers a compelling alternative for organizations seeking a secure and resilient software development environment.
Abstract Mutation testing is widely used to assess the adequacy of test suite; however, its practical adoption is constrained by the persistent problem of equivalent mutants, i.e., mutants whose observable behavior is indistinguishable from the original program and therefore cannot be killed by any test case. Prior studies report that identifying equivalent mutants often requires substantial manual effort. Meanwhile, fuzzing is increasingly used in real-world systems, especially security-critical software. However, conventional fuzzing oracles typically detect only crash-like failures, thereby missing many behavioral changes introduced by mutants. In this paper, we investigate differential fuzzing as a practical, language-agnostic approach to support mutant classification, focusing on identifying (and confirming) equivalent mutants. We conduct a multi-project study across Bitcoin Core (C++), OpenSSL (C), LND (Go), and Arrow (Python), mutating six real functions with 1,090 valid mutants generated by the universalmutator. We compare unit/functional testing, seed-corpus-only fuzzing, time-bounded fuzzing, and two differential fuzzing configurations (seed-corpus-only and time-bounded). Our results show that conventional fuzzing yields the lowest mutation scores, while time-bounded differential fuzzing (5 minutes per mutant) achieves 98–100\% mutation score in five of six targets, and exposes cases where seed corpora contain valuable test inputs not covered by unit/functional suites. We further analyze runtime variability and observe log-normal behavior in difficult cases, providing practical guidance on stopping criteria (time/execution budgets), as well as evidence that dictionaries and parallel fuzzing can significantly improve effectiveness. Overall, our findings indicate that differential fuzzing is simple to implement and can classify mutants efficiently in practice, while also producing actionable artifacts (seed corpus inputs) to strengthen traditional test suites.
Abstract This paper presents a novel, vendor-agnostic stateful orchestration architecture designed to mitigate systemic data latency and transactional asymmetry within integrated enterprise-level logistics frameworks. In multi-enterprise distributed environments, the decoupling of decentralized physical Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) from centralized Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) database cores introduces severe synchronization boundary failures. We systematically analyze three critical points of operational vulnerability: serialization asymmetry in distributed tracking, atomic transaction failures during partial outbound executions, and inventory record propagation delay within reverse logistics matrices. To resolve these vulnerabilities, we introduce the State-Aware, Automated Alignment, Integration Integrity, and Logistics Cost Optimization (SAIL) framework. By transitioning integration middleware from stateless message routing pipes to active, state-retaining orchestration layers, the SAIL framework leverages an automated Heuristic Validation Buffer (HVB), an asynchronous Dual-Handshake Programmatic Lock protocol, and multi-variable cost-weight heuristic models. Field evaluation validates that the proposed architecture eliminates up to 90% of manual inventory remediation transactions while maintaining strict end-to-end ledger integrity across completely decoupled data systems.
This paper investigates the concept of "commitment lifetime" within the context of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, specifically focusing on the variability in the duration a user's commitment to a collateralized asset remains valid. The commitment lifetime, denoted as *LC(P)*, is defined as the difference between the release time and the birth time of the commitment, where *trelease* and *tbirth* represent the respective timestamps. The core objective is to analyze the probability distribution of commitment lifetimes, denoted as *P(LC > t)*, for different algorithmic approaches used in managing collateralized positions. We demonstrate that despite potentially differing underlying mechanisms, various DeFi protocols can arrive at identical conclusions regarding commitment lifetimes. This highlights the importance of understanding the mathematical representation of commitment lifetime distributions, which we term the "commitment lifetime distribution." This analysis provides a foundational understanding for risk management and parameter optimization within DeFi systems.
Compact AI systems make local language-model experimentation increasingly accessible, yet practical evidence for multi-node training on desktop-class accelerators remains limited. This report presents a proof-of-concept deployment of distributed NanoChat pretraining across two NVIDIA DGX Spark systems, each with a GB10 Grace Blackwell system-on-chip and 128 GB of unified memory, administered remotely over a Tailscale mesh VPN and connected for training by a dedicated 200 Gb/s QSFP56 direct fiber link. PyTorch torchrun, DDP, and NCCL were configured with one process per node, a depth-20 NanoChat model, a local batch size of 32 per node, and a 2,048-token context, giving a global batch of 131,072 tokens per step. The run sustained a step time of about 69.4 s (about 1,890 tokens/s), processing about 653 million tokens over four days. We document link configuration, container setup, interface binding, a step-zero evaluation bug that triggered NCCL timeouts, checkpointing, and troubleshooting lessons, as a reproducibility reference for small labs. We also built a cybersecurity fine-tuning dataset from 77 CISA advisories (338 training, 37 validation conversations) and ran a 17-question held-out evaluation comparing a baseline SFT checkpoint against a CTI-augmented checkpoint with an Ollama-hosted LLM judge. CTI-specific categories improved while general-knowledge categories regressed, for a small overall change from 2.06 to 2.29 on a 0-10 scale. The same cluster supports a 400-level AI course (CS 426) and a query engine for CompTIA Security+ POGIL activities in CBS 255, showing modest local infrastructure can serve both research and teaching. The study establishes feasibility rather than a scaling-efficiency claim, since single-node throughput used for comparison was estimated, not measured under matched conditions. Runbook and scripts are available (see Code Availability).
Abstract—As Autonomous AI Agents transition from conversational prototypes to enterprise-grade execution agents, currentsecurity architectures face a fundamental breakdown. Enterprise deployment demands unequivocal answers to six core trust questions: Principal (who does the agent represent?), Authorization (what is it allowed to do?), Tool/Action Bound (which API calls are safe?), Policy Gate (how are high-risk actions controlled?), Audit Log (how are actions traced immutably?), and Expiry/Revocation (how is authorization revoked instantly?). Existing enterprise solutions address at best one or two boundaries: IAM frameworks resolve identity but fail at granular tool execution; prompt guardrails handle basic content filtering but lack real-time authorization or cryptographic auditability; SIEM platforms store logs post-hoc without real-time interception capabilities. This paper introduces DROS-6P, a unified, deterministic runtime governance kernel designed to enforce all six fundamental trust boundaries within a single C-ABI and eBPF in-band execution layer. To prevent the security control plane from becoming a throughput bottleneck or a single point of failure under high-frequency system calls (Syscalls) generated by enterprise, third-party, or malicious agents—thereby mitigating self-induced Denial-of-Service (DDoS) degradation—runtime governance requires microsecondlevel evaluation capability. Empirical benchmark evaluations demonstrate that the DROS-6P in-band kernel achieves an average decision latency of approximately 26.1 μs. Specifically, DROS-6P enforces: (1) Principal via 3-tier PKI-signed DROS Identity Tokens (DIT); (2) Authorization via Capability Bitmaps mapping roles to deterministic execution vectors; (3) Tool/Action Bound via in-band C-ABI interceptors at the FFI boundary; (4) Policy Gate via dynamic data redaction, Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) suspension, and ZKP-Lite zero-knowledge proofs; (5) Audit Log via tamper-evident SHA-256 Merkle Hash Chains and Ed25519 signatures; and (6) Expiry/Revocation via O(1) Read-Copy-Update (RCU) atomic pointer swaps providing instant HTTP 403 enforcement. We validate DROS-6P across six heterogeneous domain tracks (Carbon DPP, Fintech AML, HIPAA Healthcare, Government Proxy Services, Inclusive Migrant Finance, and RBA Supply Chain Compliance), providing a fully reproducible testbed with 100% automated test assertions passed (0.004s), demonstrating that unified physical-layer governance is necessary and sufficient for safe enterprise AI agent deployment.Abstract—隨著自主AI Agent(自主智能體)從對話式原型走向企業級執行場景,傳統資安架構正面臨根本性的崩潰。企業部署AI Agent 時,必須對六大核心信任問題給出明確答案:Principal(Agent 代表誰?)、Authorization(被授權做什麼?)、Tool/Action Bound(哪些API 呼叫安全?)、Policy Gate(高風險動作如何控制?)、Audit Log(行動如何不可篡改地追溯?)以及Expiry/Revocation(授權何時失效且如何即時停止?)。然而,現有的企業安全處方最多只能回應一至兩個邊界:IAM 系統解決了身份認證,卻對動態Tool 呼叫束手無策;Prompt 防火牆(Guardrails)僅能處理文字層提示,缺乏執行期動態授權與密碼學稽核能力;SIEM 平台僅提供事後日誌紀錄,缺乏帶內即時攔截與防衛能力。本論文提出DROS-6P ——旨在單一C-ABI與 eBPF 帶內執行層中,同時強制執行這六大信任邊界之確定性執行期治理微內核。為確保安全控制面本身不會在企業內部、外部或惡意Agent 產生高頻系統呼叫(Syscalls)時成為效能瓶頸或單點故障點,進而防範自我引發的服務阻斷(Self-induced DDoS)與系統衰退,執行期治理必須具備「微秒級(μs)」的評估能力。實證基準測試顯示,DROS-6P 帶內微內核在測試環境中達到約26.1 μs 的平均決策延遲。具體而言,DROS-6P 強制執行:(1) Principal:透過3 階PKI 簽章之DROS 身份標籤(DIT);(2) Authorization:透過將角色精確映射至執行向量的確定性Capability Bitmaps;(3) Tool/Action Bound:透過FFI 邊界處的帶內C-ABI 攔截器;(4) Policy Gate:透過動態資料遮蔽(Redaction)、人工懸停審查(HITL) 與ZKP-Lite 零知識證明;(5) Audit Log:透過不可篡改的SHA-256 Merkle 雜湊鏈與Ed25519 數位簽章;以及(6) Expiry/Revocation:透過Read-Copy-Update (RCU) 原子指針交換實現O(1) 常數時間動態撤銷與秒級HTTP 403 阻斷。我們提供完全可重現的本地測試環境(test_verification_suite.py),100% 通過自動化斷言測試(耗時0.004s),並在六個異質產業賽道中驗證了DROS-6P,證明統合物理層治理是企業安全部署AI Agent 的充要條件。
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Incentive programs are central to user acquisition in decentralized finance, but many reward systems rely on raw volume, transaction count, and wallet count, making them vulnerable to bots and sybil operations. We present ZAPs, a reward attribution framework that combines economic contribution scoring with adversarial robustness. A composite activity score uses protocol-specific percentile normalization to limit whale dominance while preserving differentiation among users. A two-layer weighting mechanism combines protocol share within sector and sector share within the ecosystem, which reduces the profitability of farming small protocols. We show that the maximum reward obtainable from any protocol is bounded by that protocol's global volume share. ZAPs also introduces a four-layer defense stack consisting of transaction-level integrity checks, a parallel anomaly ensemble, post-distribution behavioral memory, and graph-based sybil clustering. The anomaly ensemble combines a one-class reconstruction model with an isolation forest and applies graduated rather than binary penalties. On 1,073 labeled malicious wallets covering 124,638 transactions, the ensemble achieves 0.923 +/- 0.013 ROC-AUC, compared with 0.891 +/- 0.016 for the reconstruction model alone, when the isolation forest is trained on benign wallets. Training it on the pooled population reverses its polarity and removes the ensemble gain. Controlled simulations reduce adversarial reward capture by 30-90 percent while legitimate-user scenarios change by 1-8 percent. Live campaigns recorded a 56 percent reduction in sybil allocation, a 49 percent increase in quality-wallet participation, and a 50 percent reduction in sell pressure.
This project introduces "X-142's Blockchain," a novel multi-layer architecture designed to resolve key bottlenecks in existing distributed ledger technologies. Traditional Order-Execute (OE) and Execute-Order-Verify (EOV) transaction models introduce severe sequential processing delays under peak loads, while standard Proof-of-Authority (PoA) consensus mechanisms remain vulnerable to malicious validator collusion. To address these limitations, our methodology implements a dual-layer network infrastructure consisting of a Main Layer and a Subordinate Layer governed by a "Guardian" node tracking reputation metrics to neutralize routing attacks. Furthermore, the framework integrates cryptographic trust via Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), utilizing an optimized Nova IVC-PloNK framework to guarantee fixed-size proof validation regardless of off-chain network states.Experimental benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed architecture achieves linear throughput degradation with increasing validator counts while maintaining strong Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus properties. The multi-layer anchoring system successfully enforces data sovereignty and real-time network visibility without penalizing nominal network throughput. Future development will focus on optimizing the SN-PoA PPO selectors using real operational traces, replacing current consensus components with quantum-resistant cross-layer proofs, and validating the framework across heterogeneous, multi-organizational Wide Area Network (WAN) deployments.
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This survey reviews adaptive communication over QUIC for distributed and agent-based systems, focusing on security-first transport design, preservation of session context, and orchestration across request-response, streaming, and publish-subscribe under a single connection.The survey organizes existing approaches along four axes: transport-layer security and auditability, telemetry-driven mode selection, congestion and priority control for multi-stream workloads, and resilience through fallbacks and graceful degradation.Techniques synthesized include authentication and rate/IP hygiene, rules and contextual bandits for mode scoring, decision arbitration, latency/throughput decomposition for online tuning, and priority scheduling on QUIC streams.To ground the taxonomy, the paper also presents a consolidated reference model-QUICPowered Adaptive Communication (QPAC)-comprising an Edge Optimizer, Security Manager, hybrid Rule+ML engine with Decision Arbiter, a Performance Monitor, Intelligent Routing with priority-aware scheduling, and a Security Audit Ledger using Merkle Tree batching for immutable, transparent logging.The survey identifies open challenges in verifiable transport-layer trust, cross-mode QoS guarantees, and audit-cost amortization, and proposes evaluation guidelines for mode-selection accuracy, latency variance under dynamic workloads, and ledger overheads in real deployments.
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The rapid adoption of multi-provider container orchestration has introduced critical vulnerabilities in chain-of-custody (CoC) management, where logs and provenance records remain fragmented across heterogeneous cloud environments with inconsistent trust models. This study proposes a quantum-resistant CoC framework integrating lattice-based post-quantum signatures and zero-knowledge proofs for verifiable and privacy-preserving provenance tracking. Experimental evaluation in a simulated Kubernetes multi-cloud environment achieved a tamper detection rate exceeding 99.98% with acceptable performance overhead. The framework aligns with GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001, and ISO/IEC 27037 standards, providing a robust foundation for forensic-grade provenance management in the quantum era.
The rapid growth of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has been accompanied by increasingly sophisticated security threats. Price Oracle Manipulation Attacks (POMA), a critical vulnerability, have evolved beyond simple economic exploits to include complex, multi-transaction attacks that exploit smart contract logic, causing hundreds of millions in losses. State-of-the-art detection methods, however, often focus on single-transaction, economic manipulations and typically fail to identify these emerging attack vectors, particularly when smart contract source code is unavailable. This article introduces a novel, EVM-compatible detection pipeline that addresses this gap. By combining transaction event logs and execution traces, we engineer a rich set of semantic and structural features that capture the underlying behavior of on-chain operations. We train a regularized autoencoder exclusively on the features of benign transactions to learn a deep representation of normal activity, flagging significant deviations as malicious. Our evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of this approach, achieving 100% recall on a comprehensive dataset of single-transaction attacks and 98.25% event-level recall on a new, manually collected dataset of real-world multi-transaction exploits, with an overall precision of 97.15%. We present a robust, learning-based model capable of identifying both known and unseen POMA variants without relying on source code. Furthermore, we contribute a new dataset of multi-transaction attacks to foster further research, providing a more generalizable and resilient approach to securing the DeFi ecosystem.
This paper examines the use of Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) patterns to improve the optimization of financial risk evaluation in a distributed cloud-based system of finance.Today's financial system is characterized by a number of difficulties in processing high-speed data feeds in a timely manner, ensuring sub-millisecond latency and high availability.This paper proposes a decoupled system utilizing distributed event brokers and stream processors to identify market anomalies and credit risks in a timely fashion.This research utilizes a risk data set of 404 unique risk scenarios, including high-frequency trading (HFT) simulation data and credit transaction data, to measure system efficiency.The system environment utilizes Apache Kafka for event streaming, Kubernetes for cloud orchestration, and Prometheus for monitoring.The results show that event-driven architecture can improve system efficiency by eliminating traditional requestresponse processing bottlenecks.Furthermore, by utilizing distributed ledgers and serverless architecture, financial organizations can improve their risk profile granularity.The results show that by utilizing reactive programming, financial organizations can improve their risk management approach by shifting their traditional reactive approach to a proactive approach.
Blockchain technologies are making it possible to develop crypto-currencies and programmable smart contracts that can work in worldwide trustless and decentralized environments. Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) that can coordinate the works of crowds of users, developers, and researchers can be built using smart contracts on blockchains. We contribute a decentralized autonomous software organization model and an Ethereum blockchain-based smart contract named AutonomousSoftwareOrg that provides a continuously operating virtual organization for open-source software development communities and users. AutonomousSoftwareOrg provides a project funding mechanism based on crypto-currencies, a decision-making mechanism based on voting, and recordkeeping for software usage citations and executions. Furthermore, software executions, along with their input and output data files, can also be transactionally recorded in AutonomousSoftwareOrg. This enables software execution graphs to be constructed for analysis. An AND/OR graph model of input/output data and software executions is presented, along with analysis algorithms for execution traceability and reproducibility assessment. AutonomousSoftwareOrg is deployed and tested on the Ethereum-based Bloxberg blockchain network which is operated by academic and research institutions, demonstrating its practical viability for sustainable open-source software development.
Engineering Next-Gen Financial Systems: Designing Cloud-Native Middleware for Scalable Trading Architectures Objectives:1. To explain the principles of cloud-native architecture and middleware design for buildingscalable, resilient, and high-performance financial trading systems.2. To provide a comprehensive understanding of microservices, containerization, orchestration,messaging systems, and distributed data management in modern financial platforms.3. To demonstrate how advanced technologies such as Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Redis, gRPC,and AI-driven systems can improve real-time trading operations and financial servicedelivery.4. To guide software engineers, architects, and financial technology professionals in designingsecure, fault-tolerant, and low-latency trading infrastructures with strong observability andcompliance practices.5. To prepare readers for the future of financial technology by exploring emerging trendsincluding serverless computing, WebAssembly, AI/ML integration, decentralized finance(DeFi), and next-generation cloud-native trading ecosystems. Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 The Great Migration: From Monoliths to MicroservicesCHAPTER 2 Foundations of Cloud-Native DevelopmentCHAPTER 3 Financial Middleware: The Digital Nervous SystemCHAPTER 4 High-Performance Messaging PatternsCHAPTER 5 Data Persistence and Caching StrategiesCHAPTER 6 Service Communication and API ManagementCHAPTER 7 Architectural Deep Dive: Market Data SystemsCHAPTER 8 Architectural Deep Dive: Order Management Systems (OMS)CHAPTER 9 Architectural Deep Dive: Algorithmic Trading PlatformsCHAPTER 10 Building for Failure: Resilience and ObservabilityCHAPTER 11 Security, Compliance, and Emerging TechnologiesCHAPTER 12 Case Study: A Cloud-Native Equity Trading Platform
Digital enterprises operating across multiple regions require an architecture that ensures high availability, low latency, and seamless multi-currency support. In this paper, we propose a cloud-native distributed system design that leverages microservices, geo-replication, and fault-tolerant patterns to meet these requirements. We detail the system architecture - including a multi-region deployment, microservices for currency conversion and transaction processing, and a replicated ledger - and present our methodology for performance evaluation. Our experiments compare the proposed design to a traditional monolithic baseline, showing significant improvements: for example, currency conversion latency falls from ~220 ms to ~50 ms and throughput increases sixfold under load (p<0.01). We also demonstrate 99.99% availability via automated failover and load balancing across regions. Key contributions include a detailed description of the architecture (with figures of component interactions and data flow), an analytical model of system performance, and statistical validation of results. We conclude by discussing limitations, strengths, and directions for future work. The results validate that our design substantially enhances availability and performance for global multi-currency platforms.
Abstract Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have be- come a significant component of the dig- ital asset ecosystem, yet the visualiza- tion of rarity—a primary determinant of NFT value—remains fragmented, in- consistent, and methodologically opaque across web platforms. This paper pro- poses a comprehensive framework for NFT rarity visualization in web systems, integrating on-chain metadata extrac- tion, information-theoretic rarity scor- ing, and interactive, multi-layered vi- sualization components. The frame- work addresses three core challenges: (1) the absence of a unified, transpar- ent rarity computation standard; (2) the lack of effective visual encodings tai- lored to trait-level and collection-level rarity distributions; and (3) the scala- bility constraints inherent in real-time web-based rendering of large NFT col- lections. We describe the architecture in detail—from blockchain data ingestion pipelines through normalization, scoring, and front-end rendering—and present a prototype implementation using modern web technologies. A comparative eval- uation against existing commercial rar- ity tools demonstrates improvements in computational transparency, visual inter- pretability, and user task performance. The contributions of this work are three- fold: a formalized rarity scoring model grounded in information content theory, a modular visualization architecture for web deployment, and empirical evidence of the framework’s effectiveness for collec- tors, analysts, and marketplace designers.
Decentralized applications (DApps) represent a paradigm shift in software architecture, leveraging blockchain technology and distributed consensus mechanisms to eliminate single points of failure and centralized control. As the adoption of DApps accelerates across sectors such as finance, supply chain, healthcare, and governance, ensuring their functional correctness and behavioral reliability has become a critical engineering challenge. Unlike traditional software, DApps operate in adversarial, permissionless environments where smart contracts execute autonomously and immutably on distributed nodes, making post-deployment correction extremely costly or impossible. This review systematically examines the landscape of functional testing methodologies tailored for decentralized applications, analyzing their suitability, limitations, and practical applicability in modern DApp development workflows. We survey research spanning smart contract verification, consensus protocol testing, oracle interaction validation, cross-chain interoperability testing, and user-layer functional testing of Web3 interfaces. The review identifies four dominant testing paradigms: (1) unit testing of smart contract functions, (2) integration testing of DApp components, (3) property-based testing using formal specifications, and (4) end-to-end simulation on testnets. Through comparative analysis across 13 seminal studies, we evaluate each approach along dimensions of automation feasibility, coverage depth, gas efficiency awareness, and scalability to complex DApp ecosystems. Our findings indicate that while static analysis and symbolic execution tools such as Mythril, Slither, and Manticore offer strong vulnerability detection, they address security properties more than functional correctness. Conversely, framework-based testing tools like Hardhat, Truffle, and Foundry provide adequate unit-level coverage but struggle with cross-contract orchestration and event-driven logic verification. A critical gap exists in testing oracle-dependent and DAO governance workflows. This review concludes with a synthesis of best practices, open research challenges, and a directional roadmap for developing holistic functional testing frameworks suited to the evolving complexity of decentralized systems.