5 papers
EVAGE: Autonomous MEV Generation and Adaptation via Multi-Agent Harness
Yan Wen, Zichun Cai, Iliya Mirzaei +4
Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) has evolved into a major economic force in blockchain ecosystems, yet its capture is dominated by experienced teams, and both strategy design and im…
Competition, Collusion, and Corruption: The Spectrum of MEV Attacks on DAG-Based BFT Consensus Protocols
Iliya Mirzaei, Heer Patel, Chenyuan Wu +1
Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) protocols guarantee safety and liveness despite the malicious failure of nodes. However, they do not prevent adversarial manipulation of transaction…
Sample More, Reflect Less: Self-Refine and Reflexion Lose to Repeated Sampling at Equal Token Cost, from 1.5B to 7B
Iliya Mirzaei
Methods that make a language model plan, criticise and rewrite its own answer, reflect on mistakes, pick the best of several attempts, or debate with copies of itself nearly all ma…
Fair on the Surface: Transaction-Ordering Bias and MEV in Mysticeti DAG-based BFT Protocol
Iliya Mirzaei, Mohammad Javad Amiri
Distributed systems deployed in untrustworthy environments agree on a common transaction order through Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols, and that order has real f…
Stateless Network-Aware Adaptive Bitrate Streaming over IPFS
Iliya Mirzaei, Shabnam Jafarzade Mojaveri, Amirhossein Najafizadeh
Modern content delivery is increasingly decentralized, improving availability, cost, and reach for geographically distributed users. The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a prom…