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Hunting DeFi Vulnerabilities via Context-Sensitive Concolic Verification
Yepeng Ding, Arthur Gervais, Roger Wattenhofer +1
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is revolutionizing the traditional centralized finance paradigm with its attractive features such as high availability, transparency, and tamper-proofi…
What Drives the (In)stability of a Stablecoin?
Yujin Kwon, Kornrapat Pongmala, Kaihua Qin +5
In May 2022, an apparent speculative attack, followed by market panic, led to the precipitous downfall of UST, one of the most popular stablecoins at that time. However, UST is not…
Blockchain Censorship
Anton Wahrstätter, Jens Ernstberger, Aviv Yaish +8
Permissionless blockchains promise to be resilient against censorship by a single entity. This suggests that deterministic rules, and not third-party actors, are responsible for de…
Time to Bribe: Measuring Block Construction Market
Anton Wahrstätter, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin +2
With the emergence of Miner Extractable Value (MEV), block construction markets on blockchains have evolved into a competitive arena. Following Ethereum's transition from Proof of…
Blockchain Large Language Models
Yu Gai, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin +2
This paper presents a dynamic, real-time approach to detecting anomalous blockchain transactions. The proposed tool, BlockGPT, generates tracing representations of blockchain activ…
Mitigating Decentralized Finance Liquidations with Reversible Call Options
Kaihua Qin, Jens Ernstberger, Liyi Zhou +2
Liquidations in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) are both a blessing and a curse -- whereas liquidations prevent lenders from capital loss, they simultaneously lead to liquidation spir…