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12 papers
The Economic Security of Exponential EIP-1559
Ben Berger, Edward W. Felten, Robin Fritsch
We consider the problem of parameter selection for EIP-1559, a widely used gas pricing mechanism for blockchains. As opposed to previous work, we aim to achieve economic security,…
Priority Gas Auction Cadence and Searcher Competition: Evidence from Flashblocks on Base
Pranay Anchuri, Edward W. Felten, Akaki Mamageishvili
Flashblocks divide a block's priority gas auction into shorter sequential auctions that commit transaction order before the block is complete. We ask how this auction cadence affec…
Economic Censorship Games in Fraud Proofs
Ben Berger, Edward W. Felten, Akaki Mamageishvili +1
Optimistic rollups rely on fraud proofs -- interactive protocols executed on Ethereum to resolve conflicting claims about the rollup's state -- to scale Ethereum securely. To mitig…
MEV Capture Through Time-Advantaged Arbitrage
Robin Fritsch, Maria Inês Silva, Akaki Mamageishvili +2
As blockchains begin processing significant economic activity, the ability to include and order transactions inevitably becomes highly valuable, a concept known as Maximal Extracta…
BoLD: Fast and Cheap Dispute Resolution
Mario M. Alvarez, Henry Arneson, Ben Berger +12
BoLD is a new dispute resolution protocol that is designed to replace the originally deployed Arbitrum dispute resolution protocol. Unlike that protocol, BoLD is resistant to delay…
EIP-4844 Economics and Rollup Strategies
Davide Crapis, Edward W. Felten, Akaki Mamageishvili
We study the economics of the Ethereum improvement proposal 4844 and its effect on rollups' data posting strategies. Rollups' cost consists of two parts: data posting and delay. In…