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This zkEVM Layer-2 introduces a non-invasive Proof-of-Humanity primitive, securing the application layer against Sybil attacks and establishing a verifiable identity base for all dApps.

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→Automated Market Makers

New AMM Mechanism Achieves Arbitrage Resilience and Strategy Proofness

A new AMM mechanism uses a constant potential function to guarantee arbitrage resilience, shifting MEV mitigation to the application layer.

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→Cryptoeconomic Security

→Arbitrage Resilience

→Application Layer Security

Application-Layer Mechanism Eliminates Arbitrage and MEV in Decentralized Finance

A novel AMM mechanism processes transactions in batches using a constant potential function, guaranteeing arbitrage resilience and user incentive compatibility.

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→Economic Security

→Automated Market Makers

→Transaction Sequencing

AMM Mechanism Achieves Strategy Proofness through Constant Potential Function

Designing Automated Market Makers with a constant potential function provably eliminates miner arbitrage, fundamentally securing on-chain trading.

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→Crypto Economics

→Automated Market Maker

→Mechanism Design

Mechanism Design Eliminates AMM MEV Opportunities

A novel batch-processing AMM mechanism achieves arbitrage resilience for block producers and guarantees incentive compatibility in fair-sequencing models.

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→Block Producer Incentives

→Decentralized Finance

→Application Layer Security

Formal AMM Mechanism Achieves Strategy-Proofness and Eliminates Miner Arbitrage Profit

A new AMM design uses a constant potential function to process batched transactions, formally eliminating miner arbitrage and ensuring application-layer strategy-proofness.

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→On-Chain Fairness

→Security

Application Layer Mechanism Design Eliminates AMM Maximal Extractable Value

This mechanism design breakthrough achieves strategy proofness for AMMs by batch-processing transactions to maintain a constant potential function, mitigating MEV.

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→Automated Market Makers

→Consensus Level Properties

→Proof of Stake Systems

Application-Layer Mechanism Design Eliminates MEV and Ensures Strategy Proofness

A new AMM mechanism design achieves provable arbitrage resilience and strategy proofness, shifting MEV mitigation from consensus to the application layer.

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→Network Border Routers

→Application Layer Security

→Blockchain Deanonymization

Temporal Correlation Links User IP Addresses to Blockchain Pseudonyms

A passive network attack exploits the time difference between transaction confirmation and RPC query packets to deanonymize over 95% of users.

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→Blockchain Economics

→Searcher-Augmented Mechanism

→Auction Theory

Transaction Fee Mechanism Design Overcomes MEV Impossibility with Searcher Augmentation

The SAKA mechanism resolves the TFM impossibility theorem for active block producers by integrating MEV searchers to ensure incentive compatibility and welfare.