This study demonstrates that the publicly distributed firmware of ASIC cryptocurrency miners constitutes a primary and sufficient attack surface, allowing attackers to reconstruct internal architectur…

ZK-Value introduces a practical, scalable zero-knowledge system for calculating data valuations (Shapley values) in data marketplaces, significantly reducing proving time while maintaining high accura…

The paper proves that platform-deterministic inference is a necessary and sufficient condition for trustworthy AI, establishing that AI trust fundamentally relies on consistent arithmetic.

This paper advances the lightweight blockchain verification protocol, FlyClient, by addressing technical challenges, introducing a new adversary model, and providing practical implementations and opti…

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 systematizes the interaction between autonomous AI agents and blockchain platforms using a bidirectional trust framework, identifying significant gaps in current standards and proposing a ta…

The paper proposes Proof of Useful Attestation (PoUA), a consensus mechanism that weights validator vote power not just by staked capital, but also by a reputation score earned through performing vali…

The paper introduces ClawCoin, a novel tokenized, compute-cost-indexed unit of account designed to solve the problem of non-transferable compute costs in decentralized AI agent economies.

Intercloud proposes a decentralized economic network that achieves eventual consistency and security using a novel 'chilling-effect consensus' mechanism, eliminating the need for global coordination.

The paper proposes a method for bit-exact verification of AI inference outputs without sacrificing performance, demonstrating that deterministic, precise re-computation is possible even across differe…

The paper introduces LATTICE, a novel benchmark for evaluating how well crypto agents assist user decision-making, finding that different agents excel in different specific areas rather than having a…

The paper estimates the quantum resources required to break 256-bit ECC cryptography and warns that fast-clock quantum computers could enable on-spend attacks on modern cryptocurrencies, necessitating…

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…

The paper introduces PoSME, a cryptographic primitive that enforces strict sequential memory execution by chaining data-dependent writes, providing verifiable delay and authorship attestation.

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…

This paper proposes using polynomial multiproofs (PMP) to aggregate multiple data availability samples into a single proof, significantly reducing the bandwidth and computational overhead for blockcha…

This paper develops a formal economic framework to assess the security of VDF-based randomness beacons, demonstrating that many proposed delays are economically insecure due to rational, profit-motiva…

Hawkeye is a system that allows perfect, precision-preserving reproduction of GPU-level matrix multiplication operations on a CPU, enabling efficient and trustworthy third-party auditing of machine le…

The paper proposes a hash-based commit-reveal alternative to minimize the infrastructural overhead associated with adopting large post-quantum signature schemes in blockchain transactions.