Seminar Overview | Schedule
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April 19, 2023 (16:00 - 18:00) at E1 5 room 005:
Introduction
Optional readings:
- Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the open
blockchain. Andreas M. Antonopoulos and others.
- Mastering Ethereum. Andreas M. Antonopoulos,
Gavin Wood, and others.
- MOOC: Decentralized Finance. Dan Boneh, Arthur Gervais, Andrew
Miller, Christine Parlour, and Dawn Song.
- Bitcoin and Beyond: A Technical Survey on Decentralized
Digital Currencies
Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann. In IEEE Communications Surveys &
Tutorials (COMST 2016).
- Ethereum Yellowpaper. Gavin Wood and
others. White paper
May 17, 2023 (16:00 - 18:00) at E1 5 room
029:
Background of blockchains
- Do you need a Blockchain?
Karl Wüst and Arthur
Gervais. (Crypto Valley '18).
- Polkadot: Vision for a Heterogeneous
Multi-chain Framework
Gavin wood. White paper.
- Algorand:
Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies.
Yossi Gilad, Rotem Hemo, Silvio Micali, Georgios
Vlachos, Nickolai Zeldovich. Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2017).
- TxProbe: Discovering Bitcoin's Network Topology Using
Orphan Transactions
Sergi Delgado-Segura, Surya Bakshi, Cristina Pérez-Solà, James Litton, Andrew
Pachulski, Andrew Miller, and Bobby Bhattacharjee. Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2019).
June 21, 2023 (16:00 - 18:00) at E1 5 room 005:
(Dis-)Incentives for Consensus
- Majority is not Enough
Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer.
Financial
Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2014).
- Stick a fork in it:
Analyzing the Ethereum Network Partition
Lucianna Kiffer, Dave Levin, and Alan Mislove. ACM
Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2017)
- On the Instability of Bitcoin
Without the Block Reward
Miles Carlsten, Harry Kalodner, S. Matthew Weinberg, and Arvind Narayanan.
ACM
SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2016).
- On the Security and Performance of Proof of Work
Blockchains
Arthur Gervais, Ghassan O. Karame, Karl Wüst, Vasileios Glykantzis, Hubert Ritzdorf,
and
Srdjan Čapkun. ACM
SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2016).
July 19, 2023 (16:00 - 18:00) at E1 5 room 005:
Transaction prioritization
- Selfish & Opaque
Transaction Ordering in the Bitcoin Blockchain: The Case for Chain Neutrality
Johnnatan
Messias, Mohamed Alzayat, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Krishna P. Gummadi, Patrick Loiseau, and Alan
Mislove. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2021).
- Frontrunner Jones and the Raiders of the
DarkForest: An Empirical Study of Frontrunning on the Ethereum Blockchain
Christof Ferreira Torres,
Ramiro Camino, and Radu State. USENIX Security Symposium.
- Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and
Consensus Instability in Decentralized
Exchanges
Philip Daian, Steven Goldfeder, Tyler Kell, Yunqi Li, Xueyuan Zhao, Iddo Bentov, Lorenz
Breidenbach, Ari Juels. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2020)
- MAD-HTLC: Because HTLC is Crazy-Cheap to Attack
Itay
Tsabary, Matan Yechieli, Alex Manuskin, and Ittay Eyal. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2021)
August 16, 2023 (16:00 - 18:00) at E1 5 room 005:
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications
- Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and
Profit
Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Benjamin Livshits, and Arthur Gervais. Financial
Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2021).
- An Empirical Study of DeFi Liquidations: Incentives, Risks,
and Instabilities
Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Pablo Gamito, Philipp Jovanovic, and Arthur Gervais.
ACM
Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2021).
- Understanding Security Issues in the NFT
Ecosystem
Dipanjan Das, Priyanka Bose, Nicola Ruaro, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna. ACM
SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2022).
- Chainlink Off-chain Reporting Protocol
Lorenz
Breidenbach,
Christian Cachin, Alex Coventry, Ari Juels, and Andrew Miller.