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Flashback: Enhancing Proposer-Builder Design with Future-Block Auctions in Proof-of-Stake Ethereum
Yifan Mao, Mengya Zhang, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan +1
Maximal extractable value (MEV) in which block proposers unethically gain profits by manipulating the order in which transactions are included within a block, is a key challenge fa…
Topiary: Fast, Scalable Publish/Subscribe for Peer-to-Peer (D)Apps
Yifan Mao, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan
The emergence of blockchain technology has fostered the development of numerous decentralized applications (dapps) in recent years Pub/sub (publish/subscribe) systems play a crucia…
Goldfish: Peer selection using Matrix completion in unstructured P2P network
Bowen Xue, Yifan Mao, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan +1
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks underlie a variety of decentralized paradigms including blockchains, distributed file storage and decentralized domain name systems. A central primitive…
Less is More: Fairness in Wide-Area Proof-of-Work Blockchain Networks
Yifan Mao, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan
Blockchain is rapidly emerging as an important class of network application, with a unique set of trust, security and transparency properties. In a blockchain system, participants…
Perigee: Efficient Peer-to-Peer Network Design for Blockchains
Yifan Mao, Soubhik Deb, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan +2
A key performance metric in blockchains is the latency between when a transaction is broadcast and when it is confirmed (the so-called, confirmation latency). While improvements in…
Can Early Joining Participants Contribute More? - Timeliness Sensitive Incentivization for Crowdsensing
Yuedong Xu, Yifan Zhou, Yifan Mao +2
This paper investigates the incentive mechanism design from a novel and practically important perspective in which mobile users as contributors do not join simultaneously and a req…