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most citedMarket Misconduct in Decentralized Finance (DeFi): Analysis, Regulatory Challenges and Policy Implications

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cs.CR2026

Can Trustless Agents Be Trusted? An Empirical Study of the ERC-8004 Decentralized AI Agent Ecosystem

Xihan Xiong, Zelin Li, Wei Wei +3

As autonomous AI agents increasingly transact across organizational boundaries, a fundamental trust challenge emerges: how can an agent assess whether an unknown counterpart is tru…

cs.CR2026

Five Attacks on x402 Agentic Payment Protocol

Zelin Li, Qin Wang, Zhipeng Wang

The x402 protocol revives the HTTP 402 Payment Required status code to enable web-native micropayments across APIs, content, and agents. It combines synchronous HTTP authorization…

cs.CR2025

Toxic Ink on Immutable Paper: Content Moderation for Ethereum Input Data Messages (IDMs)

Xihan Xiong, Zhipeng Wang, Qin Wang +1

Decentralized communication is becoming an important use case within Web3. On Ethereum, users can repurpose the transaction input data field to embed natural-language messages, com…

cs.CR2025

Talking Transactions: Decentralized Communication through Ethereum Input Data Messages (IDMs)

Xihan Xiong, Zhipeng Wang, Qin Wang +3

Can you imagine, blockchain transactions can talk! In this paper, we study how they talk and what they talk about. We focus on the input data field of Ethereum transactions, which…

cs.CR2024

Exploring the Market Dynamics of Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSDs)

Xihan Xiong, Zhipeng Wang, Qin Wang

Staking has emerged as a crucial concept following Ethereum's transition to Proof-of-Stake consensus. The introduction of Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSDs) has effectively addresse…