9 papers
Crypto x AI, AI x Crypto: A Survey
Sarah Allen, Pranay Anchuri, James Austgen +23
The intersection of crypto x AI is spawning papers, products, online posts, and companies. All the surrounding buzz, though, obscures what exactly has been done, what the opportuni…
Insecurity Through Obscurity: Veiled Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source Contracts
Sen Yang, Kaihua Qin, Aviv Yaish +1
Most blockchains cannot hide the binary code of programs (i.e., smart contracts) running on them. To conceal proprietary business logic and to potentially deter attacks, many smart…
The Price of Decentralization in Block Building
Burak Öz, Burak Ãz, Fei Wu +4
Decentralized block building mechanisms replace the monopoly of a single proposer with multiple builders. However, their censorship-resistance and fair-access benefits depend not o…
Your Loss is My Gain: Low Stake Attacks on Liquid Staking Pools
Sen Yang, Aviv Yaish, Arthur Gervais +1
Permissionless Proof-of-Stake (PoS) economic security is predicated on the high cost of violating consensus safety or liveness. We show that liquid staking introduces additional ri…
Geographical Centralization Resilience in Ethereum's Block-Building Paradigms
Sen Yang, Burak Ãz, Fei Wu +1
Decentralization has an important geographic dimension that conventional metrics, such as stake distribution, often overlook. Validator location affects resilience to regional shoc…
Boost+: Equitable, Incentive-Compatible Block Building
Mengqian Zhang, Sen Yang, Kartik Nayak +1
Block space on the blockchain is scarce and must be allocated efficiently through block building. However, Ethereum's current block-building ecosystem, MEV-Boost, has become highly…