MEV’s Economic Limits Challenge Blockchain Scaling

A novel MEV auction mechanism and programmable privacy are proposed to unlock true blockchain scalability, mitigating wasteful on-chain competition.
Enhancing Blockchain Privacy and Scalability with Advanced ZK-SNARK Protocols

This research advances zero-knowledge proofs, offering new cryptographic designs to fundamentally improve privacy and scaling for decentralized systems.
Formalizing MEV: Foundations for Secure Blockchain Mechanism Design

This research formalizes Maximal Extractable Value, providing a rigorous framework for understanding and mitigating systemic blockchain vulnerabilities.
Zkfuzz: Robust Zero-Knowledge Circuit Verification through Fuzzing

zkFuzz formalizes zero-knowledge circuit vulnerabilities and employs novel fuzzing to enhance cryptographic system integrity.
Formalizing Maximal Extractable Value: A Universal Game-Theoretic Framework

This research establishes a universal, game-theoretic definition for Maximal Extractable Value, fundamentally reframing economic attacks within public blockchains for systematic mitigation.
ZKPoT Consensus Secures Federated Learning Privacy and Efficiency

This research introduces a novel Zero-Knowledge Proof of Training consensus, fundamentally transforming how blockchain-secured federated learning achieves verifiable privacy and efficiency.
Game Theory Models MEV, Mitigates Extraction with Mechanism Design

This research formalizes Maximal Extractable Value dynamics through a multi-stage game, revealing systemic inefficiencies and quantifying mitigation strategies.
MEV Mitigation via Game Theory and Mechanism Design

This research formally models Maximal Extractable Value dynamics, proving its systemic welfare costs, and proposes cryptographic mechanisms to mitigate its adverse effects on decentralized finance.
LLMs Automate Smart Contract Formal Verification Property Generation

This research integrates large language models with formal verification to automatically generate precise properties, fundamentally enhancing smart contract security.
MEV Limits Blockchain Scaling, Demands New Economic Design

This research establishes Maximal Extractable Value as the primary economic constraint on blockchain scalability, advocating for new auction designs to efficiently allocate blockspace.
MEV Limits Blockchain Scaling, Demands Economic Solutions

MEV-driven spam consumes critical blockspace, creating economic scaling limits that technical upgrades alone cannot solve, necessitating new auction designs.
Revelation Mechanisms for Trustworthy Blockchain Consensus

This research introduces revelation mechanisms within Proof-of-Stake protocols, fundamentally addressing consensus disputes by incentivizing truthful block proposals.
Efficient Verifiable Deep Learning Training Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Kaizen introduces a zero-knowledge proof system dramatically accelerating verifiable deep learning model training, unlocking privacy-preserving AI at scale.
Ethereum Execution Tickets Internalize MEV for Protocol Value Capture

This research introduces Execution Tickets, a novel mechanism to integrate Maximal Extractable Value directly into the Ethereum protocol, shifting value capture from external entities to the network itself.
Optimizing Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Enabling Practical Scalability and Efficiency

This research fundamentally transforms zero-knowledge proofs, introducing protocols that achieve linear prover times and succinct proof sizes, enabling widespread privacy-preserving computation.
Formalizing Maximal Extractable Value: A Foundational Theory for Blockchain Security

This theory formally defines Maximal Extractable Value, offering a robust framework for proving smart contract security and clarifying adversarial extraction in blockchains.
Bayesian Mechanism Design Secures Miner Revenue and User Incentives

This research introduces a novel transaction fee mechanism, ensuring miner profitability and user truthfulness by leveraging Bayesian game theory.
Plonky2 ZKPs Enhance Blockchain Hashing Integrity and Scalability

This research employs Plonky2-based ZKPs for cryptographic hashing, fundamentally securing blockchain computations and boosting scalability.
Witness Encryption Indispensable for Resettable Statistical Zero-Knowledge Arguments

This research establishes the fundamental equivalence between resettable statistical zero-knowledge arguments and witness encryption, resolving a longstanding open problem.
Optimizing Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Protocols for Enhanced Speed and Scalability

This research introduces a suite of novel zero-knowledge proof protocols that dramatically accelerate proof generation, unlocking scalable and privacy-preserving decentralized systems.
Game Theory Models MEV Dynamics and Mitigation Strategies

This research formally models MEV as a multi-stage game, revealing competitive dynamics that degrade welfare and quantifies mitigation through commit-reveal schemes.
Designing Transaction Fee Mechanisms in a Post-MEV Blockchain World

This research unveils the inherent challenges of transaction fee mechanism design in MEV-rich environments, proposing a novel framework to balance incentives.
Formal Verification Secures Dynamic Stake DAG Consensus

Formally verifying DAG-based BFT consensus with dynamic stake establishes provable nonforking, foundational for adaptive blockchain architectures.
Advancing Zero-Knowledge Proof Efficiency through Novel Protocols and Distributed Proving

Breakthrough ZKP protocols fundamentally enhance proof generation speed, unlocking new capabilities for scalable, private, and efficient decentralized systems.
Execution Tickets: Protocolizing MEV for Equitable Value Distribution

A novel ticketing mechanism aims to integrate Maximal Extractable Value directly into the Ethereum protocol, fostering fairer distribution and network robustness.
Accelerating Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Scalable Privacy Applications

This research introduces novel protocols dramatically enhancing zero-knowledge proof generation speed, unlocking new capabilities for scalable, privacy-preserving decentralized systems.
MEV Limits Blockchain Scaling; New Auction Design Required

Maximal Extractable Value has become the dominant economic constraint on blockchain scalability, demanding a paradigm shift to efficient, explicit MEV markets.
SNARK Implementation Security: A Comprehensive Vulnerability Taxonomy

This research comprehensively maps vulnerabilities across SNARK implementation layers, shifting focus from theoretical guarantees to practical security challenges.