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20172026
most citedDemystifying DeFi MEV Activities in Flashbots Bundle

36 citations · 117 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.SE2026

A Survey of LLM-Driven Penetration Testing: Taxonomy, Co-Evolution, and Open Challenges

Zheyuan He, Jiaxun Dong, Zihao Li +6

Agents4Pentest, an emerging class of LLM-based autonomous penetration testing systems, has become a rapidly growing area in security research. Despite this growth, the field still…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

FORGE: An LLM-driven Framework for Large-Scale Smart Contract Vulnerability Dataset Construction

Jiachi Chen, Yiming Shen, Jiashuo Zhang +7

High-quality smart contract vulnerability datasets are critical for evaluating security tools and advancing smart contract security research. Two major limitations of current manua…

cs.CR2024★ 5 cited

fAmulet: Finding Finalization Failure Bugs in Polygon zkRollup

Zihao Li, Xinghao Peng, Zheyuan He +2

Zero-knowledge layer 2 protocols emerge as a compelling approach to overcoming blockchain scalability issues by processing transactions through the transaction finalization process…

cs.CR2024★ 9 cited

Nurgle: Exacerbating Resource Consumption in Blockchain State Storage via MPT Manipulation

Zheyuan He, Zihao Li, Ao Qiao +6

Blockchains, with intricate architectures, encompass various components, e.g., consensus network, smart contracts, decentralized applications, and auxiliary services. While offerin…

cs.CR2024★ 11 cited

Large Language Models for Blockchain Security: A Systematic Literature Review

Zheyuan He, Zihao Li, Sen Yang +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools across various domains within cyber security. Notably, recent studies are increasingly exploring LLMs applied to the con…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

Are We There Yet? Unraveling the State-of-the-Art Smart Contract Fuzzers

Shuohan Wu, Zihao Li, Luyi Yan +5

Given the growing importance of smart contracts in various applications, ensuring their security and reliability is critical. Fuzzing, an effective vulnerability detection techniqu…

cs.CR2023★ 36 cited

Demystifying DeFi MEV Activities in Flashbots Bundle

Zihao Li, Jianfeng Li, Zheyuan He +6

Decentralized Finance, mushrooming in permissionless blockchains, has attracted a recent surge in popularity. Due to the transparency of permissionless blockchains, opportunistic t…

cs.CR2023★ 35 cited

SigRec: Automatic Recovery of Function Signatures in Smart Contracts

Ting Chen, Zihao Li, Xiapu Luo +9

Millions of smart contracts have been deployed onto Ethereum for providing various services, whose functions can be invoked. For this purpose, the caller needs to know the function…

cs.CR2017★ 18 cited

An Adaptive Gas Cost Mechanism for Ethereum to Defend Against Under-Priced DoS Attacks

Ting Chen, Xiaoqi Li, Ying Wang +5

The gas mechanism in Ethereum charges the execution of every operation to ensure that smart contracts running in EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) will be eventually terminated. Faili…