7 papers
Airdrops: Giving Money Away Is Harder Than It Seems
Johnnatan Messias, Aviv Yaish, Benjamin Livshits
Airdrops are a popular mechanism used by blockchain protocols to bootstrap communities, reward early adopters, and decentralize token distribution. Despite their widespread adoptio…
MEV Capture Through Time-Advantaged Arbitrage
Robin Fritsch, Maria Inês Silva, Akaki Mamageishvili +2
As blockchains begin processing significant economic activity, the ability to include and order transactions inevitably becomes highly valuable, a concept known as Maximal Extracta…
The Writing is on the Wall: Analyzing the Boom of Inscriptions and its Impact on EVM-compatible Blockchains
Johnnatan Messias, Krzysztof Gogol, Maria Inês Silva +1
This paper examines inscription-related transactions on Ethereum and major EVM-compatible rollups, assessing their impact on scalability during transaction surges. Our results show…
Liquidity Fragmentation or Optimization? Analyzing Automated Market Makers Across Ethereum and Rollups
Krzysztof Gogol, Manvir Schneider, Claudio Tessone +1
Layer-2 (L2) blockchains inherit Ethereums security guarantees while reducing gas fees. As a result, they are gaining traction among traders at Automated Market Makers (AMMs), spar…
: A ZKP Market Mechanism
Wenhao Wang, Lulu Zhou, Aviv Yaish +3
Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are computationally demanding to generate. Their importance for applications like ZK-Rollups has prompted some to outsource ZKP generation to a market…
A Public Dataset For the ZKsync Rollup
Maria Inês Silva, Johnnatan Messias, Benjamin Livshits
Despite blockchain data being publicly available, practical challenges and high costs often hinder its effective use by researchers, thus limiting data-driven research and explorat…