Papers

    Proceedings

  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. 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
  3. 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*
  4. 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)
  5. 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*
  6. 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)
  7. 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
  8. 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)
  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. 2024 Scheduling With Time Discounts
    Authors: Yotam Gafni, Aviv Yaish
  16. 2024 TierDrop: Harnessing Airdrop Farmers for User Growth
    Authors: Aviv Yaish, Benjamin Livshits
  17. 2024 Strategic Vote Timing in Elections With Public Tallies
    Authors: Aviv Yaish, Svetlana Abramova, Rainer Böhme
  18. 2023 Airdrops: Giving Money Away is Harder than it Seems
    Authors: Johnnatan Messias*, Aviv Yaish*, Benjamin Livshits (*: equal contribution)

    Dissertations
  19. 2025 Intelligent Economic Agents, Cryptocurrencies & Distributed Ledgers (Ph.D. Thesis)
    Authors: Aviv Yaish