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most citedAn Analysis of Intent-Based Markets

1 citations · 2 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.CR2025

Measuring CEX-DEX Extracted Value and Searcher Profitability: The Darkest of the MEV Dark Forest

Fei Wu, Danning Sui, Thomas Thiery +1

This paper provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of the economics and dynamics behind arbitrages between centralized and decentralized exchanges (CEX-DEX) on Ethereum. We ref…

econ.TH2025

SPARC: Staking Performance And Reward Coopetition

Michael D. Norman, Simon Brown, Mallesh Pai +1

This paper presents a novel staking coopetition design aimed at incentivizing decentralization and continuous growth of economic security within a proof-of-stake system. Staking re…

cs.GT2025

Does Your Blockchain Need Multidimensional Transaction Fees?

Nir Lavee, Noam Nisan, Mallesh Pai +1

Blockchains have block-size limits to ensure the entire cluster can keep up with the tip of the chain. These block-size limits are usually single-dimensional, but richer multidimen…

econ.TH2024

Centralization in Attester-Proposer Separation

Mallesh Pai, Max Resnick

We show that Execution Tickets and Execution Auctions dramatically increase centralization in the market for block proposals, even without multi-block MEV concerns. Previous analys…

cs.GT2024

How much should you pay for restaking security?

Tarun Chitra, Mallesh Pai

Restaking protocols have aggregated billions of dollars of security by utilizing token incentives and payments. A natural question to ask is: How much security do restaked services…

econ.TH2024

Optimizing Exit Queues for Proof-of-Stake Blockchains: A Mechanism Design Approach

Michael Neuder, Mallesh Pai, Max Resnick

Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocols have provable safety and liveness properties for static validator sets. In practice, however, the validator set changes over time, pote…

cs.GT2024★ 1 cited

An Analysis of Intent-Based Markets

Tarun Chitra, Kshitij Kulkarni, Mallesh Pai +1

Mechanisms for decentralized finance on blockchains suffer from various problems, including suboptimal price execution for users, latency, and a worse user experience compared to t…

econ.TH2023★ 1 cited

Structural Advantages for Integrated Builders in MEV-Boost

Mallesh Pai, Max Resnick

Currently, over 90% of Ethereum blocks are built using MEV-Boost, an auction that allows validators to sell their block-building power to builders who compete in an open English au…