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devcon 5 / transparent dishonesty blockchain front running taxonomy

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Transparent Dishonesty: Blockchain Front-running Taxonomy

Duration: 00:05:07

Speaker: Shayan Eskandari

Type: Breakout

Expertise: Advanced

Event: Devcon

Date: Invalid Date

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 blockchains 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, and an instance of abnormal behaviour of a mining pool to participate in an ICO. We also introduce a taxonomy of front-running attacks on blockchain and map the proposed solutions to front-running into useful categories. Published at Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2019: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05164

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