Credible decentralized exchange design via verifiable sequencing rules

MV Xavier Ferreira, DC Parkes - Proceedings of the 55th Annual ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Ethereum's Proposer-Builder Separation: Promises and Realities

L Heimbach, L Kiffer, C Ferreira Torres… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Demystifying defi mev activities in flashbots bundle

Z Li, J Li, Z He, X Luo, T Wang, X Ni, W Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Decentralized Finance, mushrooming in permissionless blockchains, has attracted a recent
surge in popularity. Due to the transparency of permissionless blockchains, opportunistic …

Lanturn: Measuring economic security of smart contracts through adaptive learning

K Babel, M Javaheripi, Y Ji, M Kelkar… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We introduce Lanturn: a general purpose adaptive learning-based framework for measuring
the cryptoeconomic security of composed decentralized-finance (DeFi) smart contracts …

Ai ethics on blockchain: Topic analysis on twitter data for blockchain security

Y Fu, Z Zhuang, L Zhang - Science and Information Conference, 2023 - Springer
Blockchain has empowered computer systems to be more secure using a distributed
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

L Ante, A Saggu - Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2024 - mdpi.com
The Ethereum blockchain network enables transaction processing and smart-contract
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 …

Suboptimality in defi

A Yaish, M Dotan, K Qin, A Zohar… - Cryptology ePrint …, 2023 - eprint.iacr.org
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' …

Payout races and congested channels: A formal analysis of security in the lightning network

B Weintraub, SP Kumble, C Nita-Rotaru… - Proceedings of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Blockchain transaction censorship:(in) secure and (in) efficient?

Z Wang, X **ong, WJ Knottenbelt - The International Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
The ecosystem around blockchain and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is seeing more and
more interest from centralized regulators. For instance, recently, the US government placed …