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  1. FC'25 Proophi: A ZKP Market Mechanism
    Authors: Wenhao Wang, Lulu Zhou, Aviv Yaish, Fan Zhang, Ben Fisch, Benjamin Livshits
    In: Proceedings of Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2025 (FC'25) Acceptance rate: 15%
  2. EC'24 Barriers to Collusion-resistant Transaction Fee Mechanisms
    Authors: Yotam Gafni, Aviv Yaish
    In: Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'24) A*
  3. MARBLE'24 Discrete & Bayesian Transaction Fee Mechanisms
    Authors: Yotam Gafni, Aviv Yaish
    In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE'24)
  4. WWW'24 Incentives in the Ether: Practical Cryptocurrency Economics & Security
    Authors: Aviv Yaish
    In: Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024 (WWW'24)
  5. USENIXSEC'24 Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum
    Authors: Aviv Yaish, Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Aviv Zohar, Arthur Gervais
    In: Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIXSEC'24) A*
    🏆 Awarded a Flashbots bounty
    🏆 Awarded an Ethereum Foundation bounty
    🏆 Ranked 63rd in MLSEC's Normalized Top-100 Security Papers list
    đź“° Covered by Blockworks
  6. WWW'24 Blockchain Censorship
    Authors: Toni Wahrstatter, Jens Ernstberger, Aviv Yaish, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Taro Tsuchiya, Sebastian Steinhorst, Nicholas Cristin, Davor Svetinovic, Mikolaj Barczentewicz, Arthur Gervais
    In: Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024 (WWW'24) A*
  7. DeFi@CCS'23 The Vulnerable Nature of Decentralized Governance in DeFi
    Authors: Maya Dotan, Aviv Yaish, Hsin-Chu Yin, Eytan Tsytkin, Aviv Zohar
    In: Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security (DeFi@CCS'23)
  8. CCS'23 Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition
    Authors: Aviv Yaish, Gilad Stern, Aviv Zohar
    In: Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'23) A*
    🏆 Received the ACM CCS 2023 Distinguished Paper award
    đź“° Covered by International Business Times, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph
  9. AFT'23 Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?
    Authors: Aviv Yaish, Aviv Zohar
    In: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT'23)
  10. EC'22 Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time For Your Best Interest
    Authors: Aviv Yaish, Saar Tochner, Aviv Zohar
    In: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'22) A*
    🏆 Awarded an Ethereum Foundation bounty

    Conference Papers
  11. SBC'24 Suboptimality in DeFi
    Authors: Aviv Yaish, Maya Dotan, Kaihua Qin, Aviv Zohar, Arthur Gervais
    In: The Science of Blockchain Conference 2024 (SBC'24) Acceptance rate: 14%
    🏆 Received the 4th Annual Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research (CBER) Conference's best paper award
  12. IGTC'23 Greedy Transaction Fee Mechanisms for (Non-)myopic Miners
    Authors: Yotam Gafni, Aviv Yaish
    In: The 12th Annual Conference of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society (IGTC'23)

    Preprints
  13. 2025 Insecurity Through Obscurity: Veiled Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source Contracts
    Authors: Sen Yang, Kaihua Qin, Aviv Yaish, Fan Zhang
  14. 2025 Transaction Fee Mechanisms Robust to Welfare-Increasing Collusion
    Authors: Yotam Gafni, Aviv Yaish
  15. 2025 Towards Artificial Intelligence Research Assistant for Expert-Involved Learning
    Authors: Tianyu Liu, Simeng Han, Xiao Luo, Hanchen Wang, Biqing Zhu, Rihao Qu, Yufeng Liu, Xinyue Cui, Yuge Wang, Keyi Li, Jiapeng Chen, Aviv Yaish, Yuhang Chen, Minsheng Hao, Chuhan Li, Kexing Li, Arman Cohan, Hua Xu, Mark Gerstein, Hongyu Zhao
  16. 2024 Scheduling With Time Discounts
    Authors: Yotam Gafni, Aviv Yaish
  17. 2024 Platform Building With Fake Consumers: On Double Dippers and Airdrop Farmers
    Authors: Aviv Yaish, Benjamin Livshits, Hanna Halaburda
  18. 2024 Strategic Vote Timing in Elections With Public Tallies
    Authors: Aviv Yaish, Svetlana Abramova, Rainer Böhme
  19. 2023 Airdrops: Giving Money Away is Harder than it Seems
    Authors: Johnnatan Messias*, Aviv Yaish*, Benjamin Livshits (*: equal contribution)

    Dissertations
  20. 2025 Intelligent Economic Agents, Cryptocurrencies & Distributed Ledgers (Ph.D. Thesis)
    Authors: Aviv Yaish

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