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Ordering Power is Sanctioning Power: Sanction Evasion-MEV and the Limits of On-Chain Enforcement
Di Wu, Yuman Bai, Shoupeng Ren +5
Centralized stablecoins such as USDT and USDC enforce sanctions through contract-layer blacklist functions. Yet on public blockchains, a freeze is still an ordinary transaction com…
Parallel and Asynchronous Smart Contract Execution
Jian Liu, Peilun Li, Raymond~Cheng +2
Today's blockchains suffer from low throughput and high latency, which impedes their widespread adoption of more complex applications like smart contracts. In this paper, we propos…
Making Speculative BFT Resilient with Trusted Monotonic Counters
Lachlan J. Gunn, Jian Liu, Bruno Vavala +1
Consensus mechanisms used by popular distributed ledgers are highly scalable but notoriously inefficient. Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) protocols are efficient but far less scala…
Impossibility of Full Decentralization in Permissionless Blockchains
Yujin Kwon, Jian Liu, Minjeong Kim +2
Bitcoin uses blockchain technology and proof-of-work (PoW) mechanism where nodes spend computing resources and earn rewards in return for spending these resources. This incentive s…