Credible decentralized exchange design via verifiable sequencing rules
Trading on decentralized exchanges has been one of the primary use cases for
permissionless blockchains with daily trading volume exceeding billions of US dollars. In the …
permissionless blockchains with daily trading volume exceeding billions of US dollars. In the …
Ethereum's Proposer-Builder Separation: Promises and Realities
With Ethereum's transition from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake in September 2022 came
another paradigm shift, the Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS) scheme. PBS was …
another paradigm shift, the Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS) scheme. PBS was …
Demystifying defi mev activities in flashbots bundle
Decentralized Finance, mushrooming in permissionless blockchains, has attracted a recent
surge in popularity. Due to the transparency of permissionless blockchains, opportunistic …
surge in popularity. Due to the transparency of permissionless blockchains, opportunistic …
Lanturn: Measuring economic security of smart contracts through adaptive learning
We introduce Lanturn: a general purpose adaptive learning-based framework for measuring
the cryptoeconomic security of composed decentralized-finance (DeFi) smart contracts …
the cryptoeconomic security of composed decentralized-finance (DeFi) smart contracts …
Ai ethics on blockchain: Topic analysis on twitter data for blockchain security
Blockchain has empowered computer systems to be more secure using a distributed
network. However, the current blockchain design suffers from fairness issues in transaction …
network. However, the current blockchain design suffers from fairness issues in transaction …
Time-varying bidirectional causal relationships between transaction fees and economic activity of subsystems utilizing the ethereum blockchain network
The Ethereum blockchain network enables transaction processing and smart-contract
execution through levies of transaction fees, commonly known as gas fees. This framework …
execution through levies of transaction fees, commonly known as gas fees. This framework …
Price of mev: towards a game theoretical approach to mev
B Mazorra, M Reynolds, V Daza - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM CCS …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Maximal (also miner) extractable value, or MEV, usually refers to the value that privileged
players can extract by strategically ordering, censoring, and placing transactions in a …
players can extract by strategically ordering, censoring, and placing transactions in a …
Suboptimality in defi
The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has proven to be popular in facilitating financial
operations, such as token exchange and lending. The public availability of DeFi platforms' …
operations, such as token exchange and lending. The public availability of DeFi platforms' …
Payout races and congested channels: A formal analysis of security in the lightning network
The Lightning Network, a payment channel network with a market cap of over 192M USD, is
designed to resolve Bitcoin's scalability issues through fast off-chain transactions. There are …
designed to resolve Bitcoin's scalability issues through fast off-chain transactions. There are …
Blockchain transaction censorship:(in) secure and (in) efficient?
The ecosystem around blockchain and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is seeing more and
more interest from centralized regulators. For instance, recently, the US government placed …
more interest from centralized regulators. For instance, recently, the US government placed …