3 papers
cs.CR2026
A formal framework for the economic security of DeFi compositions
Massimo Bartoletti, Riccado Marchesin, Roberto Zunino
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) services are usually constructed by composing a variety of smart contracts. While composability is a key driver of the success of DeFi, it also creates…
cs.CR2025
Certifying optimal MEV strategies with Lean
Massimo Bartoletti, Riccardo Marchesin, Roberto Zunino
Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) refers to a class of attacks to decentralized applications where the adversary profits by manipulating the ordering, inclusion, or exclusion of tran…
cs.CR2024
Scalable UTXO Smart Contracts via Fine-Grained Distributed State
Massimo Bartoletti, Riccardo Marchesin, Roberto Zunino
UTXO-based smart contract platforms face an efficiency bottleneck, in that any transaction sent to a contract must specify the entire updated contract state. This requirement becom…