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Frontrunner Jones and the Raiders of the Dark Forest: An Empirical Study of Frontrunning on the Ethereum Blockchain
Christof Ferreira Torres, Ramiro Camino, Radu State
Ethereum prospered the inception of a plethora of smart contract applications, ranging from gambling games to decentralized finance. However, Ethereum is also considered a highly a…
The Eye of Horus: Spotting and Analyzing Attacks on Ethereum Smart Contracts
Christof Ferreira Torres, Antonio Ken Iannillo, Arthur Gervais +1
In recent years, Ethereum gained tremendously in popularity, growing from a daily transaction average of 10K in January 2016 to an average of 500K in January 2020. Similarly, smart…
High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges
Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Christof Ferreira Torres +2
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) allow parties to participate in financial markets while retaining full custody of their funds. However, the transparency of blockchain-based DEX in c…
ConFuzzius: A Data Dependency-Aware Hybrid Fuzzer for Smart Contracts
Christof Ferreira Torres, Antonio Ken Iannillo, Arthur Gervais +1
Smart contracts are Turing-complete programs that are executed across a blockchain. Unlike traditional programs, once deployed, they cannot be modified. As smart contracts carry mo…
ÆGIS: Shielding Vulnerable Smart Contracts Against Attacks
Christof Ferreira Torres, Mathis Baden, Robert Norvill +3
In recent years, smart contracts have suffered major exploits, costing millions of dollars. Unlike traditional programs, smart contracts are deployed on a blockchain. As such, they…
A Data Science Approach for Honeypot Detection in Ethereum
Ramiro Camino, Christof Ferreira Torres, Mathis Baden +1
Ethereum smart contracts have recently drawn a considerable amount of attention from the media, the financial industry and academia. With the increase in popularity, malicious user…