2 papers
cs.CR2025
Rolling in the Shadows: Analyzing the Extraction of MEV Across Layer-2 Rollups
Christof Ferreira Torres, Albin Mamuti, Ben Weintraub +2
The emergence of decentralized finance has transformed asset trading on the blockchain, making traditional financial instruments more accessible while also introducing a series of…
cs.CR2024
Payout Races and Congested Channels: A Formal Analysis of Security in the Lightning Network
Ben Weintraub, Satwik Prabhu Kumble, Cristina Nita-Rotaru +1
The Lightning Network, a payment channel network with a market cap of over 192M USD, is designed to resolve Bitcoin's scalability issues through fast off-chain transactions. There…