The paper analyzes transaction fee mechanisms in modern blockchains that use parallel execution and contingency, proving an inherent trade-off between minimizing risks for users and maximizing revenue…

The paper designs an optimal mechanism for soliciting expensive computational tasks in adversarial blockchain environments, showing that the loss of optimality scales logarithmically with the cost of…

This paper models transaction fee dynamics on blockchains by treating the transaction queue as a priority queue, providing analytical insights into how user delay costs influence fees.

This paper models Ethereum's mempool as a dynamic scheduling problem using an MDP, showing that dynamic pricing stabilizes the system and maximizes long-run rewards, and that the optimal policy conver…

This paper analyzes the x402 payment protocol, revealing systemic vulnerabilities in state synchronization and signature design that allow attackers to exploit payment systems for resource leakage in…

This paper analyzes the x402 payment protocol, revealing critical synchronization and security flaws that allow attackers to exploit payment systems and force merchants to subsidize compute costs.

This paper analyzes the conditions under which Bitcoin's security might fail due to miners deviating from honest mining when block rewards decline to zero, concluding that protocol mechanisms can miti…

The paper analyzes Ethereum builder transactions to show that builder centralization is an emergent property of the Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS) architecture, driven by specific order flow and ME…

The paper demonstrates that on public blockchains, the ability to dictate transaction order (ordering power) is the true source of sanctioning power, as block producers can extract value (SE-MEV) by p…

The paper analyzes and documents various double-dip reward abuse attacks that exploit flaws in how cashback and reward engines handle transaction refunds, proposing formal invariants and defensive alg…

GasLiteAA proposes optimizing the ERC-4337 standard by offloading gas sponsorship logic to Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), significantly reducing on-chain gas costs while maintaining security an…

The paper proves that any voting rule based solely on wallet balance, including anti-plutocratic mechanisms like Quadratic Voting, is fundamentally vulnerable to Sybil attacks on permissionless blockc…

The paper demonstrates that current transfer-based AML systems fail in complex DeFi environments because economic value migration can be structurally decoupled from explicit token transfers.

The paper proves that for resources with structural parallelizability (like divisibility and transferability), it is impossible to enforce a linear cost for concentrating influence, demonstrating that…

The paper proposes a trustless framework using dual-layer cryptographic commitments to solve the operator-gating problem in blockchain provenance trees, ensuring verifiable user attribution even when…

RegGuard is a unified framework that enhances optimistic rollups with three coordinated mechanisms—semantic validation, cross-layer state consistency checks, and fair ordering—to make them suitable fo…

This paper proposes a self-adaptive block creation process for blockchain systems that automatically optimizes configurations to reduce transaction latency by predicting performance based on workload…

The paper evaluates dynamic coordination strategy selection for enterprise multi-agent systems, finding that a calibrated default routing approach is effective, even if a deterministic winner-selectio…

LiquiLM is a novel framework that combines Large Language Models (LLMs) with a Dynamic Co-Attention Network (DCN) to effectively bridge the semantic gap between complex smart contract code and high-le…

The paper introduces extsc{Dao$^2$}, a framework enabling secure, threshold-controlled payments from one Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) to another, supporting both traceable and anonymou…