Speculative {Denial-of-Service} Attacks In Ethereum

A Yaish, K Qin, L Zhou, A Zohar, A Gervais - 33rd USENIX security …, 2024 - usenix.org
Transaction fees compensate actors for resources expended on transactions and can only
be charged from transactions included in blocks. But, the expressiveness of Turing-complete …

Ethereum proof-of-stake consensus layer: Participation and decentralization

D Grandjean, L Heimbach, R Wattenhofer - International Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract In September 2022, Ethereum transitioned from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-
Stake (PoS) during “the merge”—making it the largest PoS cryptocurrency in terms of market …

" Centralized or Decentralized?": Concerns and Value Judgments of Stakeholders in the Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Market

Y Xiao, B Deng, S Chen, KZ Zhou, R LC… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are decentralized digital tokens to represent the unique
ownership of items. Recently, NFTs have been gaining popularity and at the same time …

Dissecting the eip-2930 optional access lists

L Heimbach, Q Kniep, Y Vonlanthen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Ethereum introduced Transaction Access Lists (TALs) in 2020 to optimize gas costs during
transaction execution. In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of TALs in …

Maximizing NFT Incentives: References Make You Rich

G Yu, Q Wang, C Sun, LD Nguyen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we study how to optimize existing Non-Fungible Token (NFT) incentives. Upon
exploring a large number of NFT-related standards and real-world projects, we come across …

Video marketing for decentralized finance platforms' services

NT Giannakopoulos, DP Reklitis, MC Terzi… - Journal of Financial …, 2024 - Springer
In the continuously evolving environment of blockchain applications, decentralized finance
(DeFi) has been discerned as a favorable application among internet users. In this point of …

Splicer: Secure Hub Placement and Deadlock-Free Routing for Payment Channel Network Scalability

L Yang, X Dong, W Wang, S Gao, Q Qu, W Tian… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Payment channel hub (PCH) is a promising approach for payment channel networks (PCNs)
to improve efficiency by deploying robust hubs to steadily process off-chain transactions …

Deferred Objects to Enhance Smart Contract Programming with Optimistic Parallel Execution

G Mitenkov, I Kabiljo, Z Li, A Spiegelman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
One of the main bottlenecks of blockchains is smart contract execution. To increase
throughput, modern blockchains try to execute transactions in parallel. Unfortunately …

[PDF][PDF] " Centralized or Decentralized?": Concerns and Value Judgments of Stakeholders in the Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Market

Y Xiao, B Deng, S Chen, KZ Zhou, R Lc… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are decentralized digital tokens to represent the unique
ownership of items. Recently, NFTs have been gaining popularity and at the same time …

Blockchain in Financial Intermediation and Beyond: What are the Main Barriers for Widespread Adoption?

E Yerushalmi, S Paladini - 2023 - open-access.bcu.ac.uk
Blockchain-enabled cryptocurrency instruments have gradually filtered into financial
intermediation, disrupting traditional institutions. This paper discusses the benefits of …