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Incentive Non-Compatibility of Optimistic Rollups
Daji Landis
Optimistic rollups are a popular and promising method of increasing the throughput capacity of their underlying chain. These methods rely on economic incentives to guarantee their…
Stackelberg Attacks on Auctions and Blockchain Transaction Fee Mechanisms
Daji Landis, Nikolaj I. Schwartzbach
We study an auction with identical items in a context where agents can arbitrarily commit to strategies. In general, such commitments non-trivially change the equilibria by…
Which Games are Unaffected by Absolute Commitments?
Daji Landis, Nikolaj I. Schwartzbach
We identify a subtle security issue that impacts mechanism design in scenarios in which agents can absolutely commit to strategies. Absolute commitments allow the strategy of an ag…
Side Contract Commitment Attacks on Blockchains
Daji Landis, Nikolaj I. Schwartzbach
We identify a subtle security issue that impacts the design of smart contracts, because agents may themselves deploy smart contracts (side contracts). Typically, equilibria of game…