3 papers
cs.NI2025
Friend or Foe? Identifying Anomalous Peers in Moneros P2P Network
Yannik Kopyciok, Stefan Schmid, Friedhelm Victor
Monero, the leading privacy-focused cryptocurrency, relies on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network to propagate transactions and blocks. Growing evidence suggests that non-standard nodes e…
cs.CR2025
Moneros Decentralized P2P Exchanges: Functionality, Adoption, and Privacy Risks
Yannik Kopyciok, Friedhelm Victor, Stefan Schmid
Privacy-focused cryptocurrencies like Monero remain popular, despite increasing regulatory scrutiny that has led to their delisting from major centralized exchanges. The latter als…
cs.CR2024
Optimizing Virtual Payment Channel Establishment in the Face of On-Path Adversaries
Lukas Aumayr, Esra Ceylan, Yannik Kopyciok +4
Payment channel networks (PCNs) are among the most promising solutions to the scalability issues in permissionless blockchains, by allowing parties to pay each other off-chain thro…