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most citedGeographical Centralization Resilience in Ethereum's Block-Building Paradigms

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cs.CR2026

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…

cs.CR2026

Perils of Parallelism: Transaction Fee Mechanisms under Execution Uncertainty

Sarisht Wadhwa, Aviv Yaish, Fan Zhang +1

Modern blockchains increasingly rely on parallel execution to improve throughput. We show several industry and academic transaction fee mechanisms (TFMs) struggle to simultaneously…

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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…

cs.GT2026

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…

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Geographical Centralization Resilience in Ethereum's Block-Building Paradigms

Sen Yang, Burak Öz, 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…

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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…