Kaihua Qin

58 papers A* 11A 1B 1C 1Journal 35Unranked 7
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
TxRay: Agentic Postmortem of Live Blockchain Attacks.
CoRR
Ziyue Wang, Jiangshan Yu, Kaihua Qin, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais, Liyi Zhou
2025 — conf
Blockchain Amplification Attack.
SIGMETRICS (Abstracts)
Taro Tsuchiya, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Arthur Gervais, Nicolas Christin
2025 J jnl
Blockchain Amplification Attack.
Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst.
Taro Tsuchiya, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Arthur Gervais, Nicolas Christin
2025 J jnl
Decompiling Smart Contracts with a Large Language Model.
CoRR
Isaac David, Liyi Zhou, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais, Kaihua Qin
2025 J jnl
Enhancing Smart Contract Security Analysis with Execution Property Graphs.
Proc. ACM Softw. Eng.
Kaihua Qin, Zhe Ye, Zhun Wang, Weilin Li, Liyi Zhou, Chao Zhang, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais
2025 J jnl
Insecurity Through Obscurity: Veiled Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source Contracts.
CoRR
Sen Yang, Kaihua Qin, Aviv Yaish, Fan Zhang
2025 A* conf
Security Perceptions of Users in Stablecoins: Advantages and Risks within the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem.
SP
Maggie Yongqi Guan, Yaman Yu, Tanusree Sharma, Molly Zhuangtong Huang, Kaihua Qin, Yang Wang, Kanye Ye Wang
2024 A* conf
Blockchain Censorship.
WWW
Anton Wahrstätter, Jens Ernstberger, Aviv Yaish, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Taro Tsuchiya, Sebastian Steinhorst, Davor Svetinovic, Nicolas Christin, Mikolaj Barczentewicz, Arthur Gervais
2024 J jnl
Blockchain Economic Denial of Sustainability Attack: Exploiting Latency Optimization in Ethereum Transaction Forwarding.
CoRR
Taro Tsuchiya, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Arthur Gervais, Nicolas Christin
2024 A* conf
DeFi '24: Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security.
CCS
Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin
2024 B conf
DeFiAligner: Leveraging Symbolic Analysis and Large Language Models for Inconsistency Detection in Decentralized Finance.
AFT
Rundong Gan, Liyi Zhou, Le Wang, Kaihua Qin, Xiaodong Lin
2024 — ed.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security, DeFi 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 14-18, 2024
DeFi@CCS
Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin
2024 J jnl
Security Perceptions of Users in Stablecoins: Advantages and Risks within the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Maggie Yongqi Guan, Yaman Yu, Tanusree Sharma, Molly Zhuangtong Huang, Kaihua Qin, Yang Wang, Kanye Ye Wang
2024 A* conf
Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks In Ethereum.
USENIX Security Symposium
Aviv Yaish, Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Aviv Zohar, Arthur Gervais
2024 C conf
What Drives the (In)stability of a Stablecoin?
ICBC
Yujin Potter, Kornrapat Pongmala, Kaihua Qin, Ariah Klages-Mundt, Philipp Jovanovic, Christine A. Parlour, Arthur Gervais, Dawn Song
2023 J jnl
Blockchain Censorship.
CoRR
Anton Wahrstätter, Jens Ernstberger, Aviv Yaish, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Taro Tsuchiya, Sebastian Steinhorst, Davor Svetinovic, Nicolas Christin, Mikolaj Barczentewicz, Arthur Gervais
2023 J jnl
Blockchain Large Language Models.
CoRR
Yu Gai, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais
2023 J jnl
Blockchain Large Language Models.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Yu Gai, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais
2023 A* conf
DeFi '23: Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security.
CCS
Kaihua Qin, Fan Zhang
2023 — conf
DeFi Auditing: Mechanisms, Effectiveness, and User Perceptions.
FC Workshops
Ding Feng, Rupert Hitsch, Kaihua Qin, Arthur Gervais, Roger Wattenhofer, Yaxing Yao, Ye Wang
2023 J jnl
DeFi Auditing: Mechanisms, Effectiveness, and User Perceptions.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Ding Feng, Rupert Hitsch, Kaihua Qin, Arthur Gervais, Roger Wattenhofer, Yaxing Yao, Ye Wang
2023 J jnl
Do you still need a manual smart contract audit?
CoRR
Isaac David, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Dawn Song, Lorenzo Cavallaro, Arthur Gervais
2023 J jnl
Leveraging Machine Learning for Bidding Strategies in Miner Extractable Value (MEV) Auctions.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Christoffer Raun, Benjamin Estermann, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Roger Wattenhofer, Arthur Gervais, Ye Wang
2023 — conf
Mitigating Decentralized Finance Liquidations with Reversible Call Options.
FC (1)
Kaihua Qin, Jens Ernstberger, Liyi Zhou, Philipp Jovanovic, Arthur Gervais
2023 J jnl
Mitigating Decentralized Finance Liquidations with Reversible Call Options.
CoRR
Kaihua Qin, Jens Ernstberger, Liyi Zhou, Philipp Jovanovic, Arthur Gervais
2023 J jnl
Mitigating Decentralized Finance Liquidations with Reversible Call Options.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Kaihua Qin, Jens Ernstberger, Liyi Zhou, Philipp Jovanovic, Arthur Gervais
2023 A* conf
On How Zero-Knowledge Proof Blockchain Mixers Improve, and Worsen User Privacy.
WWW
Zhipeng Wang, Stefanos Chaliasos, Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Lifeng Gao, Pascal Berrang, Benjamin Livshits, Arthur Gervais
2023 J jnl
On How Zero-Knowledge Proof Blockchain Mixers Improve, and Worsen User Privacy.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Zhipeng Wang, Stefanos Chaliasos, Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Lifeng Gao, Pascal Berrang, Benjamin Livshits, Arthur Gervais
2023 — ed.
Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security, DeFi 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 November 2023
DeFi@CCS
Kaihua Qin, Fan Zhang
2023 A* conf
SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Attacks.
SP
Liyi Zhou, Xihan Xiong, Jens Ernstberger, Stefanos Chaliasos, Zhipeng Wang, Ye Wang, Kaihua Qin, Roger Wattenhofer, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais
2023 J jnl
Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Aviv Yaish, Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Aviv Zohar, Arthur Gervais
2023 J jnl
Suboptimality in DeFi.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Aviv Yaish, Maya Dotan, Kaihua Qin, Aviv Zohar, Arthur Gervais
2023 A* conf
The Blockchain Imitation Game.
USENIX Security Symposium
Kaihua Qin, Stefanos Chaliasos, Liyi Zhou, Benjamin Livshits, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais
2023 J jnl
The Blockchain Imitation Game.
CoRR
Kaihua Qin, Stefanos Chaliasos, Liyi Zhou, Benjamin Livshits, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais
2023 J jnl
Time to Bribe: Measuring Block Construction Market.
CoRR
Anton Wahrstätter, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Davor Svetinovic, Arthur Gervais
2023 J jnl
Time to Bribe: Measuring Block Construction Market.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Anton Wahrstätter, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Davor Svetinovic, Arthur Gervais
2023 J jnl
Towards Automated Security Analysis of Smart Contracts based on Execution Property Graph.
CoRR
Kaihua Qin, Zhe Ye, Zhun Wang, Weilin Li, Liyi Zhou, Chao Zhang, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais
2023 J jnl
What Drives the (In)stability of a Stablecoin?
CoRR
Yujin Kwon, Kornrapat Pongmala, Kaihua Qin, Ariah Klages-Mundt, Philipp Jovanovic, Christine A. Parlour, Arthur Gervais, Dawn Song
2022 J jnl
On How Zero-Knowledge Proof Blockchain Mixers Improve, and Worsen User Privacy.
CoRR
Zhipeng Wang, Stefanos Chaliasos, Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Lifeng Gao, Pascal Berrang, Ben Livshits, Arthur Gervais
2022 A* conf
Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?
SP
Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Arthur Gervais
2022 J jnl
SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Attacks.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Liyi Zhou, Xihan Xiong, Jens Ernstberger, Stefanos Chaliasos, Zhipeng Wang, Ye Wang, Kaihua Qin, Roger Wattenhofer, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais
2022 J jnl
SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Incidents.
CoRR
Liyi Zhou, Xihan Xiong, Jens Ernstberger, Stefanos Chaliasos, Zhipeng Wang, Ye Wang, Kaihua Qin, Roger Wattenhofer, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais
2022 — conf
Speculative Multipliers on DeFi: Quantifying On-Chain Leverage Risks.
Financial Cryptography
Zhipeng Wang, Kaihua Qin, Duc Vu Minh, Arthur Gervais
2021 J jnl
A2MM: Mitigating Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges.
CoRR
Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Arthur Gervais
2021 J jnl
An Empirical Study of DeFi Liquidations: Incentives, Risks, and Instabilities.
CoRR
Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Pablo Gamito, Philipp Jovanovic, Arthur Gervais
2021 A conf
An empirical study of DeFi liquidations: incentives, risks, and instabilities.
Internet Measurement Conference
Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Pablo Gamito, Philipp Jovanovic, Arthur Gervais
2021 — conf
Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit.
Financial Cryptography (1)
Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Benjamin Livshits, Arthur Gervais
2021 J jnl
CeFi vs. DeFi - Comparing Centralized to Decentralized Finance.
CoRR
Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Yaroslav Afonin, Ludovico Lazzaretti, Arthur Gervais
2021 A* conf
High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges.
SP
Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Christof Ferreira Torres, Duc Viet Le, Arthur Gervais
2021 A* conf
On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in DeFi Protocols.
SP
Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Antoine Cully, Benjamin Livshits, Arthur Gervais
2021 J jnl
On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in DeFi Protocols.
CoRR
Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Antoine Cully, Benjamin Livshits, Arthur Gervais
2021 J jnl
Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?
CoRR
Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Arthur Gervais
2020 J jnl
Applying Private Information Retrieval to Lightweight Bitcoin Clients.
CoRR
Kaihua Qin, Henryk Hadass, Arthur Gervais, Joel Reardon
2020 J jnl
Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit.
CoRR
Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Benjamin Livshits, Arthur Gervais
2020 — conf
FileBounty: Fair Data Exchange.
EuroS&P Workshops
Simon Janin, Kaihua Qin, Akaki Mamageishvili, Arthur Gervais
2020 J jnl
FileBounty: Fair Data Exchange.
CoRR
Simon Janin, Kaihua Qin, Akaki Mamageishvili, Arthur Gervais
2020 J jnl
High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges.
CoRR
Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Christof Ferreira Torres, Duc Viet Le, Arthur Gervais
2019 — conf
Applying Private Information Retrieval to Lightweight Bitcoin Clients.
CVCBT
Kaihua Qin, Henryk Hadass, Arthur Gervais, Joel Reardon