My Research

Team

I work as a researcher at the Applied Research Group (ARG) at the Ethereum Foundation.

Focus

• Consensus Layer Research
• Execution Layer Research
• Quantitative Data Analysis
• Data Visualization

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EthResearch

• https://ethresear.ch/u/nero_eth/summary

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EIPs

1. EIP-7623: Increase Calldata Cost
2. EIP-7716: Anti-Correlation Attestation Penalties

ERCs

1. ERC-5564: Stealth Addresses
2. ERC-6538: Stealth Meta-Address Registry

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OSS Projects

• DotPics.Info
  • mevboost.pics
  • censorship.pics
  • reorg.pics
  • timing.pics
  • tornado.pics

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Papers

Blockchain censorship

• Authors: A Wahrstätter, J Ernstberger, A Yaish, L Zhou, K Qin, T Tsuchiya, ...
• Published in: arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.18545
• Year: 2023

Time to bribe: Measuring block construction market

• Authors: A Wahrstätter, L Zhou, K Qin, D Svetinovic, A Gervais
• Published in: arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.16468
• Year: 2023

Improving cryptocurrency crime detection: Coinjoin community detection approach

• Authors: A Wahrstätter, J Gomes, S Khan, D Svetinovic
• Published in: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
• Year: 2023

Basesap: Modular stealth address protocol for programmable blockchains

• Authors: A Wahrstätter, M Solomon, B DiFrancesco, V Buterin, D Svetinovic
• Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
• Year: 2024

Reducing Privacy of CoinJoin Transactions: Quantitative Bitcoin Network Analysis

• Authors: A Wahrstätter, A Taudes, D Svetinovic
• Published in: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
• Year: 2023

OpenFL: A scalable and secure decentralized federated learning system on the Ethereum blockchain

• Authors: A Wahrstätter, S Khan, D Svetinovic
• Published in: Internet of Things 26, 101174
• Year: 2024

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Blog Posts

Blobs, Reorgs, and the Role of MEV-Boost.

• Date: June 11, 2024

Is it worth using MEV-Boost?

• Date: May 29, 2024

Big blocks, blobs, and reorgs.

• Date: Apr 30, 2024

Slashing Proofoor - On-chain slashed validator proofs.

• Date: Apr 9, 2024

Analysis on Correlated Attestation Penalties.

• Date: Apr 3, 2024

EIP-7623 - Post-4844 Analysis.

• Date: Mar 14, 2024

Analyzing EIP-7623: Increase Calldata Cost.

• Date: Feb 5, 2024

On Increasing the Block Gas Limit.

• Date: Jan 24, 2024

On Block Sizes, Gas Limits and Scalability.

• Date: Oct 16, 2023

In a post MEV-Burn world - Some simulations and stats.

• Date: Aug 31, 2023

Cumulative, Non-Expiring Inclusion Lists.

• Date: Aug 10, 2023

The Second-Slot Itch - Statistical Analysis of Reorgs.

• Date: Jul 10, 2023

Selfish Mixing and RANDAO Manipulation.

• Date: Jun 11, 2023

Gas Ticketing - A Backstage Pass to Ethereum Blocks.

• Date: Jan 30, 2023

Builders on MEV - Analysing the impact of the OFAC sanctions on Block Builders.

• Date: Oct 18, 2022

Practical Guide into Analyzing MEV in the Proof-of-Stake Era.

• Date: Sep 3, 2022

ERC-5564: Improving Privacy on Ethereum through Stealth Address Wallets.

• Date: Aug 29, 2022

Ethereum Datafarm: Parsing Historic Event Data from the Ethereum Blockchain into CSV files using the Etherscan API.

• Date: Aug 4, 2022

ERC721 Extension for zk-SNARKs.

• Date: Jul 24, 2022

Privacy-Preserving Proof of Ownership for Attendance Tokens (PoA) using zk-SNARKs.

• Date: Jul 24, 2022