A survey on ethereum systems security: Vulnerabilities, attacks, and defenses

H Chen, M Pendleton, L Njilla, S Xu - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2020 - dl.acm.org
Blockchain technology is believed by many to be a game changer in many application
domains. While the first generation of blockchain technology (ie, Blockchain 1.0) is almost …

A comprehensive survey of recent internet measurement techniques for cyber security

MS Pour, C Nader, K Friday, E Bou-Harb - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
As the Internet has transformed into a critical infrastructure, society has become more
vulnerable to its security flaws. Despite substantial efforts to address many of these …

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 …

Quantifying blockchain extractable value: How dark is the forest?

K Qin, L Zhou, A Gervais - 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Permissionless blockchains such as Bitcoin have excelled at financial services. Yet,
opportunistic traders extract monetary value from the mesh of decentralized finance (DeFi) …

High-frequency trading on decentralized on-chain exchanges

L Zhou, K Qin, CF Torres, DV Le… - 2021 IEEE Symposium …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) allow parties to participate in financial markets while
retaining full custody of their funds. However, the transparency of blockchain-based DEX in …

Alternative investments in the Fintech era: The risk and return of Non-Fungible Token (NFT)

DR Kong, TC Lin - Available at SSRN 3914085, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Our study highlights the NFT rarity as a key determinant of price premium in the cross-
section. Moreover, well-connected investors, who establish their central positions in the NFT …

A survey of state-of-the-art on blockchains: Theories, modelings, and tools

H Huang, W Kong, S Zhou, Z Zheng… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
To draw a roadmap of current research activities of the blockchain community, we first
conduct a brief overview of state-of-the-art blockchain surveys published in the past 5 years …

[HTML][HTML] Taxonomy of centralization in public blockchain systems: A systematic literature review

AR Sai, J Buckley, B Fitzgerald, A Le Gear - Information Processing & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bitcoin introduced delegation of control over a monetary system from a select few to all who
participate in that system. This delegation is known as the decentralization of controlling …

Survey on blockchain networking: Context, state-of-the-art, challenges

M Dotan, YA Pignolet, S Schmid, S Tochner… - ACM Computing …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Blockchains, in general, and cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, in particular, are realized
using distributed systems and hence critically rely on the performance and security of the …

Ethna: Analyzing the underlying peer-to-peer network of ethereum blockchain

T Wang, C Zhao, Q Yang, S Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The peer-to-peer (P2P) network of blockchain used to transport its transactions and blocks
has a high impact on the efficiency and security of the system. The P2P network topologies …