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Aviv Zohar

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    20052024

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    • 2024

      Speculative Denial-of-Service Attacks in Ethereum

      Yaish, A., Qin, K., Zhou, L., Zohar, A. & Gervais, A., 2024, Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium. USENIX Association, p. 3531-3548 18 p. (Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      1 Scopus citations
    • 2023

      Correct Cryptocurrency ASIC Pricing: Are Miners Overpaying?

      Yaish, A. & Zohar, A., 1 Oct 2023, 5th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, AFT 2023. Bonneau, J. & Weinberg, S. M. (eds.). Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing, p. 2:1-2:25 25 p. 2. (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs; vol. 282).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      2 Scopus citations

    • The Vulnerable Nature of Decentralized Governance in DeFi

      Dotan, M., Yaish, A., Yin, H. C., Tsytkin, E. & Zohar, A., 30 Nov 2023, DeFi 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 25-31 7 p. (DeFi 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
      6 Scopus citations

    • Uncle Maker: (Time)Stamping Out The Competition in Ethereum

      Yaish, A., Stern, G. & Zohar, A., 15 Nov 2023, CCS 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 135-149 15 p. (CCS 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
      6 Scopus citations
    • 2022

      Blockchain Stretching & Squeezing: Manipulating Time for Your Best Interest

      Yaish, A., Tochner, S. & Zohar, A., 12 Jul 2022, EC 2022 - Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 65-88 24 p. (EC 2022 - Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      17 Scopus citations

    • How to Charge Lightning: The Economics of Bitcoin Transaction Channels

      Branzei, S., Segal-Halevi, E. & Zohar, A., 2022, 2022 58th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 1-8 8 p. (2022 58th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2022).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
      3 Scopus citations

    • Redesigning Bitcoin's Fee Market

      Lavi, R., Sattath, O. & Zohar, A., Mar 2022, In: ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation. 10, 1, p. 5:1-5:31 31 p., 5.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

      Open Access
      16 Scopus citations

    • Sliding Window Challenge Process for Congestion Detection

      Lotem, A., Azouvi, S., McCorry, P. & Zohar, A., 2022, Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 26th International Conference, FC 2022, Revised Selected Papers. Eyal, I. & Garay, J. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 512-530 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 13411 LNCS).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Twilight: A Differentially Private Payment Channel Network

      Dotan, M., Tochner, S., Zohar, A. & Gilad, Y., 2022, Proceedings of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Security 2022. USENIX Association, p. 555-570 16 p. (Proceedings of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Security 2022).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      7 Scopus citations

    • Virtual ASICs: Generalized Proof-of-Stake Mining in Cryptocurrencies

      Ganesh, C., Orlandi, C., Tschudi, D. & Zohar, A., 2022, Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - ESORICS 2021 International Workshops, DPM 2021 and CBT 2021, Revised Selected Papers. Garcia-Alfaro, J., Muñoz-Tapia, J. L., Navarro-Arribas, G. & Soriano, M. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 173-191 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 13140 LNCS).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      2 Scopus citations
    • 2021

      Congestion Attacks in Payment Channel Networks

      Mizrahi, A. & Zohar, A., 2021, Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 25th International Conference, FC 2021, Revised Selected Papers. Borisov, N. & Diaz, C. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 170-188 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 12675 LNCS).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      31 Scopus citations

    • PHANTOM GHOSTDAG: A scalable generalization of Nakamoto consensus: September 2, 2021

      Sompolinsky, Y., Wyborski, S. & Zohar, A., 26 Sep 2021, AFT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 3rd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 57-70 14 p. (AFT 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 3rd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      33 Scopus citations

    • Survey on Blockchain Networking: Context, State-of-the-Art, Challenges

      Dotan, M., Pignolet, Y. A., Schmid, S., Tochner, S. & Zohar, A., 25 May 2021, In: ACM Computing Surveys. 54, 5, p. 1-34 34 p., 107.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

      55 Scopus citations
    • 2020

      Flood & Loot: A Systemic Attack on the Lightning Network

      Harris, J. & Zohar, A., 21 Oct 2020, AFT 2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 202-213 12 p. (AFT 2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      37 Scopus citations

    • How to Pick Your Friends A Game Theoretic Approach to P2P Overlay Construction

      Tochner, S. & Zohar, A., 21 Oct 2020, AFT 2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 37-45 9 p. (AFT 2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access

    • Reasoning about the future in blockchain databases

      Cohen, S., Rosenthal, A. & Zohar, A., Apr 2020, Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2020. IEEE Computer Society, p. 1930-1933 4 p. 9101185. (Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering; vol. 2020-April).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      7 Scopus citations

    • Responsible vulnerability disclosure in cryptocurrencies

      Böhme, R., Eckey, L., Moore, T., Narula, N., Ruffing, T. & Zohar, A., 23 Sep 2020, In: Communications of the ACM. 63, 10, p. 62-71 10 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

      Open Access
      12 Scopus citations

    • Route Hijacking and DoS in Off-Chain Networks

      Tochner, S., Zohar, A. & Schmid, S., 21 Oct 2020, AFT 2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 228-240 13 p. (AFT 2020 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      25 Scopus citations

    • SOK: Cryptocurrency networking context, state-of-the-art, challenges

      Dotan, M., Pignolet, Y. A., Schmid, S., Tochner, S. & Zohar, A., 25 Aug 2020, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      11 Scopus citations
    • 2019

      Financial Cryptography and Data Security: FC 2018 International Workshops, BITCOIN, VOTING, and WTSC, Nieuwpoort, Curaçao, March 2, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

      Bracciali, A. (Editor), Clark, J. (Editor), Eyal, I. (Editor), Pintore, F. (Editor), Sala, M. (Editor), Teague, V. (Editor) & Zohar, A. (Editor), 2019, 1st ed. 2019 ed. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer. 382 p. (Security and Cryptology; vol. 10958)

      Research output: Book/Report › Book

    • Redesigning Bitcoin's fee market

      Lavi, R., Sattath, O. & Zohar, A., 13 May 2019, The Web Conference 2019 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 2950-2956 7 p. (The Web Conference 2019 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2019).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
      33 Scopus citations
    • 2018

      Avoiding Deadlocks in Payment Channel Networks

      Werman, S. & Zohar, A., 2018, Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - ESORICS 2018 International Workshops, DPM 2018 and CBT 2018, Proceedings. Garcia-Alfaro, J., Herrera-Joancomartí, J., Livraga, G. & Rios, R. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 175-187 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11025 LNCS).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      15 Scopus citations

    • Bitcoin’s underlying incentives

      Sompolinsky, Y. & Zohar, A., Mar 2018, In: Communications of the ACM. 61, 3, p. 46-53 8 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

      34 Scopus citations
    • 2017

      Bitcoin's underlying incentives: The unseen economic forces that govern the Bitcoin protocol

      Sompolinsky, Y. & Zohar, A., 1 Sep 2017, In: Queue. 15, 5

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

      3 Scopus citations

    • Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies

      Apostolaki, M., Zohar, A. & Vanbever, L., 23 Jun 2017, 2017 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 2017 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 375-392 18 p. 7958588. (Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
      352 Scopus citations

    • Memory-based mechanisms for economic agents

      Dollberg, G. & Zohar, A., 2017, 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2017. Durfee, E., Winikoff, M., Larson, K. & Das, S. (eds.). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS), p. 1523-1525 3 p. (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS; vol. 3).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Optimal selfish mining strategies in bitcoin

      Sapirshtein, A., Sompolinsky, Y. & Zohar, A., 2017, Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 20th International Conference, FC 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Preneel, B. & Grossklags, J. (eds.). Springer Verlag, p. 515-532 18 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 9603 LNCS).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      356 Scopus citations

    • Recent trends in decentralized cryptocurrencies

      Zohar, A., 19 Jun 2017, STOC 2017 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing. McKenzie, P., King, V. & Hatami, H. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1 1 p. (Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing; vol. Part F128415).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    • Securing and scaling cryptocurrencies

      Zohar, A., 2017, 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017. Sierra, C. (ed.). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, p. 5161-5165 5 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 0).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
      9 Scopus citations
    • 2016

      An axiomatic approach to routing

      Lev, O., Tennenholtz, M. & Zohar, A., 23 Jun 2016, In: Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, EPTCS. 215, p. 194-206 13 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

      Open Access

    • Online pricing with strategic and patient buyers

      Feldman, M., Koren, T., Livni, R., Mansour, Y. & Zohar, A., 2016, In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. p. 3871-3879 9 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

      17 Scopus citations

    • The axiomatic approach and the internet

      Tennenholtz, M. & Zohar, A., 1 Jan 2016, Handbook of Computational Social Choice. Cambridge University Press, p. 427-452 26 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

      4 Scopus citations
    • 2015

      An axiomatic approach to link prediction

      Cohen, S. & Zohar, A., 1 Jun 2015, Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2015 and the 27th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, IAAI 2015. AI Access Foundation, p. 58-64 7 p. (Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 1).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      6 Scopus citations

    • Bitcoin: Under the hood

      Zohar, A., 1 Sep 2015, In: Communications of the ACM. 58, 9, p. 104-113 10 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

      170 Scopus citations

    • Bitcoin mining pools: A cooperative game theoretic analysis

      Lewenberg, Y., Bachrach, Y., Sompolinsky, Y., Zohar, A. & Rosenschein, J. S., 2015, AAMAS 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Elkind, E., Weiss, G., Yolum, P. & Bordini, R. H. (eds.). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS), p. 919-927 9 p. (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS; vol. 2).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      195 Scopus citations

    • Eclipse attacks on Bitcoin’s peer-to-peer network

      Heilman, E., Kendler, A., Zohar, A. & Goldberg, S., 2015, Proceedings of the 24th USENIX Security Symposium. USENIX Association, p. 129-144 16 p. (Proceedings of the 24th USENIX Security Symposium).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      659 Scopus citations

    • Inclusive block chain protocols

      Lewenberg, Y., Sompolinsky, Y. & Zohar, A., 2015, Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 19th International Conference, FC 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Okamoto, T. & Bohme, R. (eds.). Springer Verlag, p. 528-547 20 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 8975).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      236 Scopus citations

    • Secure high-rate transaction processing in bitcoin

      Sompolinsky, Y. & Zohar, A., 2015, Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 19th International Conference, FC 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Okamoto, T. & Bohme, R. (eds.). Springer Verlag, p. 507-527 21 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 8975).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      501 Scopus citations
    • 2012

      Economics of BitTorrent communities

      Kash, I. A., Lai, J. K., Zhang, H. & Zohar, A., 2012, WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web. p. 221-230 10 p. (WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      16 Scopus citations

    • On bitcoin and red balloons

      Babaioff, M., Dobzinski, S., Oren, S. & Zohar, A., 2012, EC '12 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. p. 56-73 18 p. (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      163 Scopus citations
    • 2011

      Best-response auctions

      Nisan, N., Schapira, M., Valiant, G. & Zohar, A., 2011, EC'11 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. p. 351-359 9 p. (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      18 Scopus citations

    • Best-Response Mechanisms

      Nisan, N., Schapira, M., Valiant, G. & Zohar, A., 2011, Innovations in Computer Science - ICS 2011: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, January 7-9, 2011. Tsinghua University Press, p. 155-165 11 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access

    • Exploiting problem symmetries in state-based planners

      Pochter, N., Zohar, A. & Rosenschein, J. S., 2011, AAAI-11 / IAAI-11 - Proceedings of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference. p. 1004-1009 6 p. (Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 2).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      37 Scopus citations

    • Incentive-compatible distributed greedy protocols

      Nisan, N., Schapira, M., Valiant, G. & Zohar, A., 2011, PODC'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium Principles of Distributed Computing. p. 335-336 2 p. (Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      1 Scopus citations

    • Interdomain routing and games

      Levin, H., Schapira, M. & Zohar, A., 2011, In: SIAM Journal on Computing. 40, 6, p. 1892-1912 21 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

      Open Access
      8 Scopus citations

    • Mechanisms for multi-level marketing

      Emek, Y., Karidi, R., Tennenholtz, M. & Zohar, A., 2011, EC'11 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. p. 209-218 10 p. (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      Open Access
      66 Scopus citations

    • When is it best to best-respond?

      Nisan, N., Schapira, M., Valiant, G. & Zohar, A., Jun 2011, In: ACM SIGecom Exchanges. 10, 2, p. 16-18 3 p., 2.

      Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    • 2010

      Competing Schedulers

      Ashlagi, I., Tennenholtz, M. & Zohar, A., 15 Jul 2010, Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2010. AAAI Press, p. 691-696 6 p. (Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2010).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      3 Scopus citations

    • Incentive compatibility and dynamics of congestion control

      Godfrey, P. B., Schapira, M., Zohar, A. & Shenker, S., 2010, SIGMETRICS'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. 1 SPEC. ISSUE ed. p. 95-106 12 p. (Performance Evaluation Review; vol. 38, no. 1 SPEC. ISSUE).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      13 Scopus citations

    • Search space reduction using swamp hierarchies

      Pochter, N., Zohar, A., Rosenschein, J. S. & Felner, A., 2010, AAAI-10 / IAAI-10 - Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 22nd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference. AI Access Foundation, p. 155-160 6 p. (Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 1).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

      14 Scopus citations
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