MEV Attacks
As distributed data management systems are deployed more often in untrusted environments, adversarial transaction ordering has become a major concern where malicious proposers change the order of transactions, a threat not inherently covered by Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) protocols. While recent research shows that BFT protocols are vulnerable to these manipulation attacks, there has not been a thorough analysis of the existing protocols and threats. This project aims to develop a framework to study different types of MEV attacks on bFT protocols and blockchain systems.
Publications
- Iliya Mirzaei, Zichun Cai, Chenyuan Wu, Mohammad Javad Amiri. “Transaction Order Under Attack: Benchmarking MEV in DAG-based BFT Consensus Protocols.” Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2027.
People
Haoxian Chen
Assistant Professor, ShanghaiTech University
Chenyuan Wu
Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong
