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The Anonymity Gap: Understanding Real Privacy in Shielded UTXO-based Protocols for DeFi
Hanze Guo, Stefanos Chaliasos, Yebo Feng +1
Shielded UTXO-based protocols are becoming a core form of privacy infrastructure for DeFi. Unlike mixers that organize privacy mainly around deposits and withdrawals, these protoco…
Systematizing Blockchain Research Themes and Design Patterns: Insights from the University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI)
Chien-Chih Chen, Yitian Wang, Emma Nasseri +2
The rapid expansion of blockchain and digital asset ecosystems has intensified the challenge of translating academic research into deployable systems and regulatory frameworks. Whi…
Resisting Manipulative Bots in Meme Coin Copy Trading: A Multi-Agent Approach with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Yichen Luo, Yebo Feng, Jiahua Xu +1
Copy trading has become the dominant entry strategy in meme coin markets. However, due to the market's extremely illiquid and volatile nature, the strategy exposes an exploitable a…
Enshrined Proposer Builder Separation in the presence of Maximal Extractable Value
Yitian Wang, Yebo Feng, Yingjiu Li +1
In blockchain systems operating under the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, fairness in transaction processing is essential to preserving decentralization and maintaining u…
Hedge Funds on a Swamp: Analyzing Patterns, Vulnerabilities, and Defense Measures in Blockchain Bridges
Poupak Azad, Jiahua Xu, Yebo Feng +2
Blockchain bridges have become essential infrastructure for enabling interoperability across different blockchain networks, with more than $24B monthly bridge transaction volume. H…
\textsc{Perseus}: Tracing the Masterminds Behind Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Schemes
Honglin Fu, Yebo Feng, Cong Wu +1
Masterminds are entities organizing, coordinating, and orchestrating cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes, a form of trade-based manipulation undermining market integrity and causi…
LLM-Powered Multi-Agent System for Automated Crypto Portfolio Management
Yichen Luo, Yebo Feng, Jiahua Xu +2
Cryptocurrency portfolio management requires the fusion of heterogeneous multi-modal signals, including structured price and on-chain time series, unstructured news text, and techn…
Benchmarking ZK-Friendly Hash Functions and SNARK Proving Systems for EVM-compatible Blockchains
Hanze Guo, Yebo Feng, Cong Wu +2
With the rapid development of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), particularly Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge (SNARKs), benchmarking various ZK tools has become a valuab…
Piercing the Veil of TVL: DeFi Reappraised
Yichen Luo, Yebo Feng, Jiahua Xu +1
Total value locked (TVL) is widely used to measure the size and popularity of decentralized finance (DeFi). However, TVL can be easily manipulated and inflated through "double coun…
SecPLF: Secure Protocols for Loanable Funds against Oracle Manipulation Attacks
Sanidhay Arora, Yingjiu Li, Yebo Feng +1
The evolving landscape of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has raised critical security concerns, especially pertaining to Protocols for Loanable Funds (PLFs) and their dependency on p…
AMM-based DEX on the XRP Ledger
Walter Hernandez Cruz, Firas Dahi, Yebo Feng +3
Automated Market Maker (AMM)-based Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs) are crucial in Decentralized Finance (DeFi), but Ethereum implementations suffer from high transaction costs and p…