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most citedThe Price of Interoperability: Exploring Cross-Chain Bridges and Their Economic Consequences

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cs.GT2026

Effective-Balance Design in Ethereum Proof-of-Stake

Bolin Zhang, Xuechao Wang

Proof-of-Stake (PoS) systems offer a scalable and energy-efficient alternative to Proof-of-Work (PoW). The economic security of PoS relies critically on incentivizing broad and mea…

cs.GT2026

From PBS to ePBS: the Microstructure of Block Building

Jingyu Liu, Bolin Zhang, Lin William Cong +2

Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade introduces enshrined proposer-builder separation (ePBS), replacing relay-centric PBS with direct builder bids to proposers. We study how this shift c…

cs.CR2026

OptChain: Achieving Optimal Throughput of Permissionless Blockchains

Chunjiang Che, Songze Li, Xuechao Wang

We introduce \textit{OptChain}, a permissionless blockchain state machine replication (SMR) protocol that achieves optimal throughput. We first establish a theoretical upper bound…

cs.PF2026★ 1 cited

The Price of Interoperability: Exploring Cross-Chain Bridges and Their Economic Consequences

Yiyue Cao, Mingzhe Zheng, Lin William Cong +2

Modern blockchain ecosystems comprise many heterogeneous networks, creating a growing need for interoperability. Cross-chain bridges provide the core infrastructure for this intero…

cs.CR2025

SecurePay: Enabling Secure and Fast Payment Processing for Platform Economy

Junru Lin, Mingzhe Liu, Songze Li +1

Recent years have witnessed a rapid development of platform economy, as it effectively addresses the trust dilemma between untrusted online buyers and merchants. However, malicious…

cs.CR2024

Manifoldchain: Maximizing Blockchain Throughput via Bandwidth-Clustered Sharding

Chunjiang Che, Songze Li, Xuechao Wang

Bandwidth limitation is the major bottleneck that hinders scaling throughput of proof-of-work blockchains. To guarantee security, the mining rate of the blockchain is determined by…