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 …

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 …

Rolling in the shadows: Analyzing the extraction of mev across layer-2 rollups

C Ferreira Torres, A Mamuti, B Weintraub… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
The emergence of decentralized finance has transformed asset trading on the blockchain,
making traditional financial instruments more accessible while also introducing a series of …

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 …

Decentralized finance (DeFi): A survey

E Jiang, B Qin, Q Wang, Z Wang, Q Wu, J Weng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a new paradigm in the creation, distribution, and utilization
of financial services via the integration of blockchain technology. Our research conducts a …

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 …

Blindperm: Efficient mev mitigation with an encrypted mempool and permutation

A Kavousi, DV Le, P Jovanovic… - Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2023‏ - eprint.iacr.org
To mitigate the negative effects of the maximal extractable value (MEV), we propose
techniques that utilize randomized permutation to shuffle the order of transactions in a …

Nurgle: Exacerbating resource consumption in blockchain state storage via mpt manipulation

Z He, Z Li, A Qiao, X Luo, X Zhang… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchains, with intricate architectures, encompass various components, eg, consensus
network, smart contracts, decentralized applications, and auxiliary services. While offering …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …