Kaihua Qin

According to our database, Kaihua Qin authored at least 35 papers between 2019 and 2025.

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2025

Decompiling Smart Contracts with a Large Language Model.

Isaac David, Liyi Zhou, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais, Kaihua Qin

CoRR, June, 2025

Insecurity Through Obscurity: Veiled Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source Contracts.

Sen Yang, Kaihua Qin, Aviv Yaish, Fan Zhang

CoRR, April, 2025

Enhancing Smart Contract Security Analysis with Execution Property Graphs.

Kaihua Qin, Zhe Ye, Zhun Wang, Weilin Li, Liyi Zhou, Chao Zhang, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais

Proc. ACM Softw. Eng., 2025

Security Perceptions of Users in Stablecoins: Advantages and Risks within the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem.

Maggie Yongqi Guan, Yaman Yu, Tanusree Sharma, Molly Zhuangtong Huang, Kaihua Qin, Yang Wang, Kanye Ye Wang

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2025

Blockchain Amplification Attack.

Taro Tsuchiya, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Arthur Gervais, Nicolas Christin

Proceedings of the Abstracts of the 2025 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2025

2024

Blockchain Economic Denial of Sustainability Attack: Exploiting Latency Optimization in Ethereum Transaction Forwarding.

Taro Tsuchiya, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Arthur Gervais, Nicolas Christin

CoRR, 2024

Blockchain Censorship.

Anton Wahrstätter, Jens Ernstberger, Aviv Yaish, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Taro Tsuchiya, Sebastian Steinhorst, Davor Svetinovic, Nicolas Christin, Mikolaj Barczentewicz, Arthur Gervais

Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, 2024

Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks In Ethereum.

Aviv Yaish, Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Aviv Zohar, Arthur Gervais

Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, 2024

What Drives the (In)stability of a Stablecoin?

Yujin Potter, Kornrapat Pongmala, Kaihua Qin, Ariah Klages-Mundt, Philipp Jovanovic, Christine A. Parlour, Arthur Gervais, Dawn Song

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, 2024

DeFi '24: Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security.

Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin

Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2024

DeFiAligner: Leveraging Symbolic Analysis and Large Language Models for Inconsistency Detection in Decentralized Finance.

Rundong Gan, Liyi Zhou, Le Wang, Kaihua Qin, Xiaodong Lin

Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, 2024

2023

Suboptimality in DeFi.

Aviv Yaish, Maya Dotan, Kaihua Qin, Aviv Zohar, Arthur Gervais

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023

Time to Bribe: Measuring Block Construction Market.

Anton Wahrstätter, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Davor Svetinovic, Arthur Gervais

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023

Leveraging Machine Learning for Bidding Strategies in Miner Extractable Value (MEV) Auctions.

Christoffer Raun, Benjamin Estermann, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Roger Wattenhofer, Arthur Gervais, Ye Wang

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023

Blockchain Large Language Models.

Yu Gai, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais

IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023

What Drives the (In)stability of a Stablecoin?

Yujin Kwon, Kornrapat Pongmala, Kaihua Qin, Ariah Klages-Mundt, Philipp Jovanovic, Christine A. Parlour, Arthur Gervais, Dawn Song

CoRR, 2023

Do you still need a manual smart contract audit?

Isaac David, Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Dawn Song, Lorenzo Cavallaro, Arthur Gervais

CoRR, 2023

Towards Automated Security Analysis of Smart Contracts based on Execution Property Graph.

Kaihua Qin, Zhe Ye, Zhun Wang, Weilin Li, Liyi Zhou, Chao Zhang, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais

CoRR, 2023

On How Zero-Knowledge Proof Blockchain Mixers Improve, and Worsen User Privacy.

Zhipeng Wang, Stefanos Chaliasos, Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Lifeng Gao, Pascal Berrang, Benjamin Livshits, Arthur Gervais

Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 2023

The Blockchain Imitation Game.

Kaihua Qin, Stefanos Chaliasos, Liyi Zhou, Benjamin Livshits, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais

Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, 2023

SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Attacks.

Liyi Zhou, Xihan Xiong, Jens Ernstberger, Stefanos Chaliasos, Zhipeng Wang, Ye Wang, Kaihua Qin, Roger Wattenhofer, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais

Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2023

Mitigating Decentralized Finance Liquidations with Reversible Call Options.

Kaihua Qin, Jens Ernstberger, Liyi Zhou, Philipp Jovanovic, Arthur Gervais

Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2023

DeFi Auditing: Mechanisms, Effectiveness, and User Perceptions.

Ding Feng, Rupert Hitsch, Kaihua Qin, Arthur Gervais, Roger Wattenhofer, Yaxing Yao, Ye Wang

Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2023 International Workshops, 2023

DeFi '23: Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security.

Kaihua Qin, Fan Zhang

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2023

2022

SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Incidents.

Liyi Zhou, Xihan Xiong, Jens Ernstberger, Stefanos Chaliasos, Zhipeng Wang, Ye Wang, Kaihua Qin, Roger Wattenhofer, Dawn Song, Arthur Gervais

CoRR, 2022

Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?

Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Arthur Gervais

Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2022

Speculative Multipliers on DeFi: Quantifying On-Chain Leverage Risks.

Zhipeng Wang, Kaihua Qin, Duc Vu Minh, Arthur Gervais

Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2022

2021

CeFi vs. DeFi - Comparing Centralized to Decentralized Finance.

Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Yaroslav Afonin, Ludovico Lazzaretti, Arthur Gervais

CoRR, 2021

A2MM: Mitigating Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges.

Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Arthur Gervais

CoRR, 2021

High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges.

Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Christof Ferreira Torres, Duc Viet Le, Arthur Gervais

Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2021

On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in DeFi Protocols.

Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Antoine Cully, Benjamin Livshits, Arthur Gervais

Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2021

An empirical study of DeFi liquidations: incentives, risks, and instabilities.

Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Pablo Gamito, Philipp Jovanovic, Arthur Gervais

Proceedings of the IMC '21: ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 2021

Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit.

Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, Benjamin Livshits, Arthur Gervais

Proceedings of the Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2021

2020

FileBounty: Fair Data Exchange.

Simon Janin, Kaihua Qin, Akaki Mamageishvili, Arthur Gervais

Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, 2020

2019

Applying Private Information Retrieval to Lightweight Bitcoin Clients.

Kaihua Qin, Henryk Hadass, Arthur Gervais, Joel Reardon

Proceedings of the Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology, 2019