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There's No Trick, Its Just a Simple Trick: A Web-Compat and Privacy Improving Approach to Third-party Web Storage
Jordan Jueckstock, Peter Snyder, Shaown Sarker +2
While much current web privacy research focuses on browser fingerprinting, the boring fact is that the majority of current third-party web tracking is conducted using traditional,…
Liquidations: DeFi on a Knife-edge
Daniel Perez, Sam M. Werner, Jiahua Xu +1
The trustless nature of permissionless blockchains renders overcollateralization a key safety component relied upon by decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. Nonetheless, factors…
On the Battery Consumption of Mobile Browsers
Matteo Varvello, Benjamin Livshits
Mobile web browsing has recently surpassed desktop browsing both in term of popularity and traffic. Following its desktop counterpart, the mobile browsers ecosystem has been growin…
THEMIS: Decentralized and Trustless Ad Platform with Reporting Integrity
Gonçalo Pestana, Iñigo Querejeta-Azurmendi, Panagiotis Papadopoulos +1
Online advertising fuels the (seemingly) free internet. However, although users can access most websites free of charge, they need to pay a heavy cost on their privacy and blindly…
Improving Web Content Blocking With Event-Loop-Turn Granularity JavaScript Signatures
Quan Chen, Peter Snyder, Ben Livshits +1
Content blocking is an important part of a performant, user-serving, privacy respecting web. Most content blockers build trust labels over URLs. While useful, this approach has wel…
Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit
Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Benjamin Livshits +1
Credit allows a lender to loan out surplus capital to a borrower. In the traditional economy, credit bears the risk that the borrower may default on its debt, the lender hence requ…
Revisiting Transactional Statistics of High-scalability Blockchains
Daniel Perez, Jiahua Xu, Benjamin Livshits
Scalability has been a bottleneck for major blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Despite the significantly improved scalability claimed by several high--profile blockchain pro…
The Decentralized Financial Crisis
Lewis Gudgeon, Daniel Perez, Dominik Harz +2
The Global Financial Crisis of 2008, caused by the accumulation of excessive financial risk, inspired Satoshi Nakamoto to create Bitcoin. Now, more than ten years later, Decentrali…