3 papers
cs.GT2026
Competing Auctions in Intermediated Markets
Bruno Mazorra, Minghao Pan, Christoph Schlegel
We analyze competing auctions in intermediated markets, where a seller selects among parallel mechanisms for the sale of a single good, most prominently the relay-and-protocol arch…
cs.GT2026
The Free Option Problem of ePBS
Bruno Mazorra, Burak Ãz, Christoph Schlegel +1
Ethereum's upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade introduces EIP-7732 enshrined Proposer--Builder Separation (ePBS), which improves the block production pipeline by addressing trust and scal…
cs.CR2025
Cross-Chain Arbitrage: The Next Frontier of MEV in Decentralized Finance
Burak Ãz, Christof Ferreira Torres, Christoph Schlegel +4
Decentralized finance (DeFi) markets spread across Layer-1 (L1) and Layer-2 (L2) blockchains rely on arbitrage to keep prices aligned. Today most price gaps are closed against cent…