3 papers
cs.CR2025
Unaligned Incentives: Pricing Attacks Against Blockchain Rollups
Stefanos Chaliasos, Conner Swann, Sina Pilehchiha +3
Rollups have become the de facto scalability solution for Ethereum, securing more than $55B in assets. They achieve scale by executing transactions on a Layer 2 ledger, while perio…
cs.CR2025
AlDBaran: Towards Blazingly Fast State Commitments for Blockchains
Bernhard Kauer, Aleksandr Petrosyan, Benjamin Livshits
The fundamental basis for maintaining integrity within contemporary blockchain systems is provided by authenticated databases. Our analysis indicates that a significant portion of…
cs.DC2025
Maxing Out the SVM: Performance Impact of Memory and Program Cache Sizes in the Agave Validator
Turan Vural, Yuki Yuminaga, Alex Petrosyan +1
In this paper we analyze some of the bottlenecks in the execution pipeline of Solana's Agave validator client, focusing on RAM and program cache usage under mainnet conditions. Thr…