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Demystifying Private Transactions and Their Impact in PoW and PoS Ethereum
Xingyu Lyu, Mengya Zhang, Xiaokuan Zhang +3
In Ethereum, private transactions, a specialized transaction type employed to evade public Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network broadcasting, remain largely unexplored, particularly in the c…
Flashback: Enhancing Proposer-Builder Design with Future-Block Auctions in Proof-of-Stake Ethereum
Yifan Mao, Mengya Zhang, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan +1
Maximal extractable value (MEV) in which block proposers unethically gain profits by manipulating the order in which transactions are included within a block, is a key challenge fa…
SoK: Security of Cross-chain Bridges: Attack Surfaces, Defenses, and Open Problems
Mengya Zhang, Xiaokuan Zhang, Josh Barbee +2
Cross-chain bridges are used to facilitate token and data exchanges across blockchains. Although bridges are becoming increasingly popular, they are still in their infancy and have…
An Empirical Study on Ethereum Private Transactions and the Security Implications
Xingyu Lyu, Mengya Zhang, Xiaokuan Zhang +3
Recently, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platforms on Ethereum are booming, and numerous traders are trying to capitalize on the opportunity for maximizing their benefits by launchin…