Publications

Security–Throughput Tradeoff of Nakamoto Consensus under Bandwidth Constraints

Lucianna Kiffer*, Joachim Neu*, Srivatsan Sridhar*, Aviv Zohar*, David Tse

*authors listed alphabetically

To appear in CCS 2024

Stability of P2P Networks Under Greedy Peering

Lucianna Kiffer and Rajmohan Rajaraman

SIROCCO 2024 Best Paper Award

The PoW Landscape in the Aftermath of The Merge

Lucianna Kiffer, Sophia Skorik, Yann Vonlanthen, and Roger Wattenhofer

CoDecFin 2024

Ethereum’s Proposer-Builder Separation: Promises and Realities

Lioba Heimbach, Lucianna Kiffer, Christof Ferreira Torres and Roger Wattenhofer

IMC 2023

Strategic Latency Reduction in Blockchain Networks

Weizhao Tang, Lucianna Kiffer, Giulia Fanti, and Ari Juels

SIGMETRICS 2023

HaPPY-Mine: Designing a Mining Reward Function

Lucianna Kiffer and Rajmohan Rajaraman

FC 2021

Under the Hood of the Ethereum Gossip Protocol

Lucianna Kiffer, Asad Salman, Dave Levin, Alan Mislove, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru

FC 2021

Towards Optical Proof of Work

Michael Dubrovsky, Bogdan Penkovsky, Lucianna Kiffer and Marshall Ball

CES 2020

FlyClient: Super-Light Clients for Cryptocurrencies

Benedikt Bunz*, Lucianna Kiffer*, Loi Luu, and Mahdi Zamani

S&P 2020

* co-first-authors

Flyclient is currently being implemented/considered by several projects including Beam, Mimblewimble and ZCash.

Analyzing Ethereum’s Contract Topology

Lucianna Kiffer, Dave Levin, and Alan Mislove

IMC 2018

A Better Method to Analyze Blockchain Consistency

Lucianna Kiffer, Rajmohan Rajaraman, and abhi shelat

CCS 2018

Stick a Fork in it: Analyzing the Ethereum Network Partition

Lucianna Kiffer, Dave Levin, and Alan Mislove

HotNets 2017