Sok: Decentralized finance (defi) attacks

L Zhou, X Xiong, J Ernstberger… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within just four years, the blockchain-based Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem has
accumulated a peak total value locked (TVL) of more than 253 billion USD. This surge in …

Sok: Attacks on daos

R Feichtinger, R Fritsch, L Heimbach… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are blockchain-based organizations that
facilitate decentralized governance. Today, DAOs not only hold billions of dollars in their …

[PDF][PDF] The paradox of adversarial liquidation in decentralised lending

SN Cohen, M Sabate-Vidales, L Szpruch… - Available at SSRN …, 2023 - simtopia.ai
We present a holistic framework for risk and reward management for decentralised lending
protocols, such as AAVE or Compound. This framework highlights tensions and trade-offs in …

VarLifter: Recovering Variables and Types from Bytecode of Solidity Smart Contracts

Y Li, W Song, J Huang - Proceedings of the ACM on Programming …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Since funds or tokens in smart contracts are maintained through specific state variables,
contract audit, an effective means for security assurance, particularly focuses on these …

Investigating Similarities Across Decentralized Financial (DeFi) Services

J Luo, S Kitzler, P Saggese - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.00034, 2024 - arxiv.org
We explore the adoption of graph representation learning (GRL) algorithms to investigate
similarities across services offered by Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols. Following …