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The Impact of Sanctions on decentralised Privacy Tools: A Case Study of Tornado Cash
Raffaele Cristodaro, Benjamin Kraner, Claudio J. Tessone
This paper investigates the impact of sanctions on Tornado Cash, a smart contract protocol designed to enhance transaction privacy. Following the U.S. Department of the Treasury's…
Clustering Deposit and Withdrawal Activity in Tornado Cash: A Cross-Chain Analysis
Raffaele Cristodaro, Benjamin Kraner, Claudio J. Tessone
Tornado Cash is a decentralised mixer that uses cryptographic techniques to sever the on-chain trail between depositors and withdrawers. In practice, however, its anonymity can be…
SoK: Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) and Emerging Trends in Restaking
Krzysztof Gogol, Yaron Velner, Benjamin Kraner +1
Liquid staking and restaking represent recent innovations in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) that garnered user interest and capital. Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs), tokenized represent…
Liquid Staking Tokens in Automated Market Makers
Krzysztof Gogol, Robin Fritsch, Malte Schlosser +3
This paper studies liquid staking tokens (LSTs) on automated market makers (AMMs), both theoretically and empirically. LSTs are tokenized representations of staked assets on proof-…