3 papers
cs.GT2026
Price of Censorship: Censorship Resistance and Throughput under Rational Concurrent Proposers
Aditya Saraf, Ioannis Kaklamanis, Sarisht Wadhwa +1
Censorship resistance is the defining advantage of blockchains over their centralized counterparts. Yet block proposers censor transactions for many reasons, from legal consequence…
cs.GT2026
Blockspace Under Pressure: An Analysis of Spam MEV on High-Throughput Blockchains
Wenhao Wang, Aditya Saraf, Lioba Heimbach +2
On high-throughput, low-fee blockchains, a qualitatively new form of maximal extractable value (MEV) has emerged: searchers submit large volumes of speculative transactions, whose…
cs.GT2023
Chunking Tasks for Present-Biased Agents
Joe Halpern, Aditya Saraf
Everyone puts things off sometimes. How can we combat this tendency to procrastinate? A well-known technique used by instructors is to break up a large project into more manageable…