This survey analyzes various novel cross-chain interoperability protocols to provide a comprehensive framework for evaluating their performance and financial impact within the fragmented on-chain fina…

This paper analyzes the revenue drivers and interconnected risks of liquid restaking protocols, finding that while multi-blockchain expansion is key for adoption, the current bridge risk does not pose…

The paper proposes a novel nine-dimension risk assessment framework for institutional DeFi adoption, significantly enhancing existing methodologies by incorporating novel dimensions like composability…

The paper analyzes the nascent DeFi investment agent market, finding that while token valuations are high, current deployments are heterogeneous, lack clear autonomous execution, and exhibit poor risk…

The paper empirically analyzes the nascent DeFi investment agent market, finding that while token valuations are high, current deployments lack robust autonomous execution and exhibit poor risk-adjust…

The paper introduces MEV non-interference, a formal security notion, to ensure that composing new smart contracts in DeFi does not increase the maximal extractable value, thereby providing a formal fo…

The paper investigates whether tokenizing real-world assets actually improves liquidity, finding that liquidity is highly heterogeneous across asset types and is not reliably predicted by the outstand…

This paper analyzes high-impact Web3 security incidents to show that most losses stem from off-chain organizational and operational failures, not just smart contract bugs.

The paper introduces Sol2Vy, a framework that enables cross-language knowledge transfer from Solidity to Vyper, allowing effective vulnerability detection in low-resource smart contracts without needi…

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…

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.

The paper introduces Bitcoin Smart Accounts (BSA), a novel, trust-minimized protocol enabling native Bitcoin to participate in DeFi while maintaining self-custody of funds.

The paper investigates speculative Oracle Extractable Value (OEV) on Layer-2 blockchains, demonstrating that predictable latency differences in cross-chain oracle updates allow for profitable cross-ch…

GenDetect introduces a novel framework to rapidly generalize detection rules from single observed DeFi exploits, significantly improving resilience against subsequent, similar 'Imitative Attack Cascad…

The paper introduces an explainable risk scoring framework that evaluates tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) based on liquidity, concentration, and market quality, demonstrating that total value locke…

The paper introduces Bastet, a novel, high-quality, expert-labeled dataset designed to overcome limitations in existing resources for detecting complex smart contract vulnerabilities in DeFi.

The paper demonstrates that large language models (LLMs) exhibit measurable, controllable biases toward specific assets like Bitcoin, identifying an internal feature that can causally shift portfolio…

UniDetect is a novel LLM-driven method that detects cross-chain cryptocurrency fraud by generating generalized transaction summaries, significantly outperforming existing detection techniques across m…

The paper proposes a Regulatory Compliance Protocol (RCP) to standardize and provide a regulatory framework for the interoperability and tokenization of assets between traditional and decentralized fi…