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math.CO2026

A new lower bound for the sixth Schur number:

Zhiyang Chen, Ligeng Zhu, Fan Long

We give an explicit partition of into six sum-free sets, establishing . This improves the lower bound 536 of Fredricksen and Sweet (2000). Known rec…

cs.CR2026

Ghost-Filled Orders: Detecting and Testing Atomicity Violations in Non-Custodial Prediction Markets

Zhiyang Chen, Fan Long, Zhendong Su

Blockchain based prediction markets combine offchain order management with onchain settlement. This architecture supports user controlled custody, since users keep funds in wallets…

cs.CR2025

Enforcing Control Flow Integrity on DeFi Smart Contracts

Zhiyang Chen, Sidi Mohamed Beillahi, Pasha Barahimi +4

Smart contracts power decentralized financial (DeFi) services but are vulnerable to security exploits that can lead to significant financial losses. Existing security measures ofte…

cs.SE2024

OpenTracer: A Dynamic Transaction Trace Analyzer for Smart Contract Invariant Generation and Beyond

Zhiyang Chen, Ye Liu, Sidi Mohamed Beillahi +2

Smart contracts, self-executing programs on the blockchain, facilitate reliable value exchanges without centralized oversight. Despite the recent focus on dynamic analysis of their…

cs.SE2024

Assessing Code Generation with Intermediate Languages

Xun Deng, Sicheng Zhong, Honghua Dong +4

Intermediate step methodologies like chain of thoughts (COT) have demonstrated effectiveness in enhancing the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) on code generation. This s…

cs.CR2024

Demystifying Invariant Effectiveness for Securing Smart Contracts

Zhiyang Chen, Ye Liu, Sidi Mohamed Beillahi +2

Smart contract transactions associated with security attacks often exhibit distinct behavioral patterns compared with historical benign transactions before the attacking events. Wh…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

Safeguarding DeFi Smart Contracts against Oracle Deviations

Xun Deng, Sidi Mohamed Beillahi, Cyrus Minwalla +3

This paper presents OVer, a framework designed to automatically analyze the behavior of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols when subjected to a "skewed" oracle input. OVer first…