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Is Your Wallet Snitching On You? An Analysis on the Privacy Implications of Web3
Christof Ferreira Torres, Fiona Willi, Shweta Shinde
With the recent hype around the Metaverse and NFTs, Web3 is getting more and more popular. The goal of Web3 is to decentralize the web via decentralized applications. Wallets play…
A Flash(bot) in the Pan: Measuring Maximal Extractable Value in Private Pools
Ben Weintraub, Christof Ferreira Torres, Cristina Nita-Rotaru +1
The rise of Ethereum has lead to a flourishing decentralized marketplace that has, unfortunately, fallen victim to frontrunning and Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) activities, wher…
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…