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BDoS: Blockchain Denial of Service
Michael Mirkin, Yan Ji, Jonathan Pang +3
Proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrency blockchains like Bitcoin secure vast amounts of money. Their operators, called miners, expend resources to generate blocks and receive monetary r…
SquirRL: Automating Attack Analysis on Blockchain Incentive Mechanisms with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Charlie Hou, Mingxun Zhou, Yan Ji +4
Incentive mechanisms are central to the functionality of permissionless blockchains: they incentivize participants to run and secure the underlying consensus protocol. Designing in…
DECO: Liberating Web Data Using Decentralized Oracles for TLS
Fan Zhang, Sai Krishna Deepak Maram, Harjasleen Malvai +2
Thanks to the widespread deployment of TLS, users can access private data over channels with end-to-end confidentiality and integrity. What they cannot do, however, is prove to thi…
Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges
Philip Daian, Steven Goldfeder, Tyler Kell +5
Blockchains, and specifically smart contracts, have promised to create fair and transparent trading ecosystems. Unfortunately, we show that this promise has not been met. We docume…