Ghazal: Toward Truly Authoritative Web Certificates Using Ethereum

Moosavi, Seyedehmahsa; Clark, Jeremy

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-58820-8_24

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“…The final category in Table 1 is name services, which are primarily aimed at disintermediating central parties involved in web domain registration (e.g., ICAAN and registrars) and resolution (e.g., DNS). For simple name services (such as some academic work like Ghazal [47]), domains purchases are transactions and front-runners can displace other users attempting to register domains. This parallels front-running attacks seen in regular (non-blockchain) domain registration [4].…”

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SoK: Transparent Dishonesty: Front-Running Attacks on Blockchain

Eskandari

Moosavi

Clark

2020

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We consider front-running to be a course of action where an entity benefits from prior access to privileged market information about upcoming transactions and trades. Front-running has been an issue in financial instrument markets since the 1970s. With the advent of the blockchain technology, front-running has resurfaced in new forms we explore here, instigated by blockchain's decentralized and transparent nature. In this paper, we draw from a scattered body of knowledge and instances of front-running across the top 25 most active decentral applications (DApps) deployed on Ethereum blockchain. Additionally, we carry out a detailed analysis of Status.im initial coin offering (ICO) and show evidence of abnormal miner's behavior indicative of front-running token purchases. Finally, we map the proposed solutions to front-running into useful categories. 1 A block in the stock market is a large number of shares, 10 000 or more, to sell which will heavily change the price.

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Section: Name Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%