Papers

Proceedings

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%
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
📰 Covered by Blockworks
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*
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)
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*
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)
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
📰 Covered by International Business Times, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph
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)
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)
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
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
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
2025 Insecurity Through Obscurity: Veiled Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source Contracts
Authors: Sen Yang, Kaihua Qin, Aviv Yaish, Fan Zhang
2025 Transaction Fee Mechanisms Robust to Welfare-Increasing Collusion
Authors: Yotam Gafni, Aviv Yaish
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
2024 Scheduling With Time Discounts
Authors: Yotam Gafni, Aviv Yaish
2024 TierDrop: Harnessing Airdrop Farmers for User Growth
Authors: Aviv Yaish, Benjamin Livshits
2024 Strategic Vote Timing in Elections With Public Tallies
Authors: Aviv Yaish, Svetlana Abramova, Rainer Böhme
2023 Airdrops: Giving Money Away is Harder than it Seems
Authors: Johnnatan Messias*, Aviv Yaish*, Benjamin Livshits (*: equal contribution)

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