Mechanism Design Overcomes Impossibility for Incentive-Compatible MEV Mitigation
Foundational impossibility theorem on transaction fee mechanisms is circumvented by SAKA, a new design securing 50% welfare and full incentive compatibility.
MEV Uncertainty Principles Quantify Transaction Ordering Trade-Offs and Limits
New MEV uncertainty principles quantify the fundamental trade-off between transaction reordering freedom and user economic payoff complexity, proving no universal mitigation exists.
Differential Privacy Ensures Transaction Ordering Fairness in Blockchains
Researchers connect Differential Privacy to State Machine Replication, using cryptographic noise to eliminate algorithmic bias and mitigate Maximal Extractable Value.
Ethereum Transaction Ordering Exploited via MEV-Boost Sandwich Attack
MEV-Boost manipulation enables transaction sandwiching, allowing attackers to front-run user swaps and extract millions in capital from order flow.
Threshold Cryptography Introduces Undetectable Collusion Risks in MEV Mitigation
Analyzing threshold encrypted mempools reveals that cryptographic privacy shifts MEV risk to new, undetectable forms of decryptor collusion and information asymmetry
Formal MEV Modeling Mechanically Certifies Optimal Adversarial Strategies
This research pioneers the formal verification of MEV bounds using the Lean theorem prover, providing cryptographic-grade correctness guarantees for DeFi security.
Delegating Layer Two Sequencing to Base Layer Proposers Secures Rollups
Based sequencing transfers L2 transaction ordering to the credibly neutral L1 validator set, fundamentally resolving sequencer centralization risk and enabling atomic composability.
Encrypted Transactions and Randomized Ordering Mitigate Maximal Extractable Value
New MEV-resistant protocol combines transaction encryption with execution randomization, fundamentally removing validator control over profitable ordering.
Decentralized Exchange Hyperliquid Exploited by Coordinated Pricing Mechanism Attack
A critical flaw in the DEX's smart contract pricing mechanism allowed a coordinated attack to manipulate the POPCAT token's collateral value, draining millions.
