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I am very glad this resulted in two bug bounties, one from the Ethereum Foundation and one from Flashbots (despite FB not officially having a bug bounty program yet!). Congratulations, Aviv Yaish, again.

Excited to present Uncle Maker tomorrow at ACM CCS 2024! The published version of the paper contains new results, such as an evaluation of the attack's impact on Ethereum's difficulty, and the profits F2Pool made. Check it out: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

Honored to have won the 4th Annual CBER Conference's best paper award for "Suboptimality in DeFi" (ia.cr/2023/892, joint with @MayaD09111862, Kaihua Qin, Aviv Zohar, and Arthur Gervais). Thanks to the @CBER_Forum and the FinTech@Cornell Initiative, who sponsor the award.

Was catching up on top-tier Blockchain security papers, and found the paper "Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum" (USENIX Security '24) very impressive. As far as I know, this is the first paper to address attacks against the PBS ecosystem. More in Threads 🧵1/13

Our cryptography lab at Yale Applied Cryptography Laboratory now has a youtube channel where we post videos of our talks: youtube.com/@YaleACL. Kudos to our postdoc Aviv Yaish for leading this!

Check out Sen Yang's summary of our new paper, Insecurity Through Obscurity: Veiled Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source Contracts! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2504.13398

Join us at DeFi’25: Workshop on Decentralized Finance & Security, Co-located with ACM CCS 2025 on October 17, 2025. Submission deadline: July 21, 2025 (AoE) Thanks to our incredible program committee & chairs for making this happen: Aviv Yaish @christoftorres Alex Biryukov