Applying Private Information Retrieval to Lightweight Bitcoin Clients. - Kaihua Qin; Henryk Hadass; Arthur Gervais; Joel Reardon (CVCBT, 2019)

FileBounty: Fair Data Exchange. - Simon Janin; Kaihua Qin; Akaki Mamageishvili; Arthur Gervais (EuroS&P Workshops, 2020)

Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit. - Kaihua Qin; Liyi Zhou; Benjamin Livshits; Arthur Gervais (Financial Cryptography (1), 2021)

An empirical study of DeFi liquidations: incentives, risks, and instabilities. - Kaihua Qin; Liyi Zhou; Pablo Gamito; Philipp Jovanovic; Arthur Gervais (Internet Measurement Conference, 2021)

On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in DeFi Protocols. - Liyi Zhou; Kaihua Qin; Antoine Cully; Benjamin Livshits; Arthur Gervais (SP, 2021)

High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges. - Liyi Zhou; Kaihua Qin; Christof Ferreira Torres; Duc Viet Le 001; Arthur Gervais (SP, 2021)

A2MM: Mitigating Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges. - Liyi Zhou; Kaihua Qin; Arthur Gervais (CoRR, 2021)

CeFi vs. DeFi - Comparing Centralized to Decentralized Finance. - Kaihua Qin; Liyi Zhou; Yaroslav Afonin; Ludovico Lazzaretti; Arthur Gervais (CoRR, 2021)

Speculative Multipliers on DeFi: Quantifying On-Chain Leverage Risks. - Zhipeng Wang 009; Kaihua Qin; Duc Vu Minh; Arthur Gervais (Financial Cryptography, 2022)

Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest? - Kaihua Qin; Liyi Zhou; Arthur Gervais (SP, 2022)

SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Incidents. - Liyi Zhou; Xihan Xiong; Jens Ernstberger; Stefanos Chaliasos; Zhipeng Wang 009; Ye Wang 017; Kaihua Qin; Roger Wattenhofer; Dawn Song; Arthur Gervais (CoRR, 2022)

SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Attacks. - Liyi Zhou; Xihan Xiong; Jens Ernstberger; Stefanos Chaliasos; Zhipeng Wang 009; Ye Wang 017; Kaihua Qin; Roger Wattenhofer; Dawn Song; Arthur Gervais (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022)

DeFi '23: Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security. - Kaihua Qin; Fan Zhang 022 (CCS, 2023)

The Blockchain Imitation Game. - Kaihua Qin; Stefanos Chaliasos; Liyi Zhou; Benjamin Livshits; Dawn Song; Arthur Gervais (USENIX Security Symposium, 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 008; Dawn Song; Arthur Gervais (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)

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)

DeFi Auditing: Mechanisms, Effectiveness, and User Perceptions. - Ding Feng 008; Rupert Hitsch; Kaihua Qin; Arthur Gervais; Roger Wattenhofer; Yaxing Yao; Ye Wang 017 (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023)

Blockchain Large Language Models. - Yu Gai; Liyi Zhou; Kaihua Qin; Dawn Song; Arthur Gervais (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023)

Mitigating Decentralized Finance Liquidations with Reversible Call Options. - Kaihua Qin; Jens Ernstberger; Liyi Zhou; Philipp Jovanovic; 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 017 (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)

On How Zero-Knowledge Proof Blockchain Mixers Improve, and Worsen User Privacy. - Zhipeng Wang 009; Stefanos Chaliasos; Kaihua Qin; Liyi Zhou; Lifeng Gao; Pascal Berrang; Benjamin Livshits; Arthur Gervais (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023)

Suboptimality in DeFi. - Aviv Yaish; Maya Dotan; Kaihua Qin; Aviv Zohar; Arthur Gervais (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023)

Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum. - Aviv Yaish; Kaihua Qin; Liyi Zhou; Aviv Zohar; Arthur Gervais (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023)

DeFiAligner: Leveraging Symbolic Analysis and Large Language Models for Inconsistency Detection in Decentralized Finance. - Rundong Gan; Liyi Zhou; Le Wang 010; Kaihua Qin; Xiaodong Lin 001 (AFT, 2024)

DeFi '24: Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security. - Liyi Zhou; Kaihua Qin (CCS, 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 (ICBC, 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 (WWW, 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)

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 005; Kanye Ye Wang (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024)

Enhancing Smart Contract Security Analysis with Execution Property Graphs. - Kaihua Qin; Zhe Ye; Zhun Wang; Weilin Li; Liyi Zhou; Chao Zhang 008; Dawn Song; Arthur Gervais (Proc. ACM Softw. Eng., 2025)

Blockchain Amplification Attack. - Taro Tsuchiya; Liyi Zhou; Kaihua Qin; Arthur Gervais; Nicolas Christin (Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst., 2025)

Insecurity Through Obscurity: Veiled Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source Contracts. - Sen Yang; Kaihua Qin; Aviv Yaish; Fan Zhang 022 (CoRR, 2025)

Decompiling Smart Contracts with a Large Language Model. - Isaac David; Liyi Zhou; Dawn Song; Arthur Gervais; Kaihua Qin (CoRR, 2025)