Publications

Bibliometrics can be found in Google Scholar.

Manuscripts

• Insecurity Through Obscurity: Veiled Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source Contracts. Sen Yang, Kaihua Qin, Aviv Yaish,Fan Zhang. In submission.
  • arXiv
• Anonymous Self-Credentials and their Application to Single-Sign-On. Jayamine Alupotha, Mariarosaria Barbaraci (University of Bern), Ioannis Kaklamanis (Yale University), Abhimanyu Rawat (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Christian Cachin (University of Bern), Fan Zhang (Yale University). In submission.
  • ePrint
• AUCIL: An Inclusion List Design for Rational Parties. Sarisht Wadhwa (Duke University), Julian Ma, Thomas Thiery, Barnabe Monnot, Luca Zanolini (Ethereum Foundation), Fan Zhang (Yale University), Kartik Nayak (Duke University). In submission.
  • ePrint
• 𝖢𝖱𝖠𝖳𝖤: Cross-Rollup Atomic Transaction Execution. Ioannis Kaklamanis, Fan Zhang (Yale University). In submission.
  • arXiv
• RediSwap: MEV Redistribution Mechanism for CFMMs. Mengqian Zhang, Sen Yang, Fan Zhang. In submission.
  • arXiv

2025

• Qelect: Lattice-based Single Secret Leader Election Made Practical. Yunhao Wang, Fan Zhang. In USENIX Security 2025.
  • code
  • ePrint
• ZIPNet: Low-bandwidth anonymous broadcast from (dis)Trusted Execution Environments. Michael Rosenberg, Maurice Shih, Zhenyu Zhao, Rui Wang, Ian Miers, and Fan Zhang. In 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2025).
  • code
  • ePrint
• Decentralization of Ethereum's Builder Market. Sen Yang, Kartik Nayak, Fan Zhang. In IEEE S&P'25 (To appear).
  • arXiv
  • 30-min Talk at SBC'24
  • Short talk at CBER Crafting the Cryptoeconomy Conference (Oct 26, 2024)
  • Featured in Wisdom of DeFi by EigenPhi
• Prooφ: A ZKP Market Mechanism. Wenhao Wang, Lulu Zhou, Aviv Yaish, Fan Zhang, Ben Fisch, Benjamin Livshits. In Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2025 (FC25).
  • arXiv
  • Recording of Wenhao’s talk at ZK Summit 11, Athens, Greece
  • Presented at Tokenomics 2024, Hong Kong

2024

• (Book Chapter) Web3: Blockchain, the New Economy, and the Self-Sovereign Internet. Ken Huang, DistributedApps.ai, Youwei Yang, Bit Mining Limited, Fan Zhang, Yale University, Xi Chen, New York University, Feng Zhu, Harvard Business School. In Cambridge Press.
  • Order from Cambridge
• CrudiTEE: A Stick-and-Carrot Approach to Building Trustworthy Cryptocurrency Wallets with TEEs. Lulu Zhou, Zeyu Liu, Fan Zhang, Michael K. Reiter. In Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2024).
  • code
  • arXiv
• Breaking the Chains of Rationality: Understanding the Limitations to and Obtaining Order Policy Enforcement. Sarisht Wadhwa, Luca Zanolini, Francesco D’Amato, Aditya Asgaonkar, Kartik Nayak, and Fan Zhang. In ACM CCS'24.
  • ePrint
• Sprints: Intermittent Blockchain PoW Mining. Michael Mirkin, Lulu Zhou, Ittal Eyal, Fan Zhang. In USENIX Security'24.
  • ePrint
  • USENIX

2023

• The Locality of Memory Checking. Weijie Wang, Yujie Lu, Charalampos Papamanthou, and Fan Zhang. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'23).
  • ACM DL
  • ePrint
• Fed-CBS: A Heterogeneity-Aware Client Sampling Mechanism for Federated Learning via Class-Imbalance Reduction. Zhang, Jianyi and Li, Ang and Tang, Minxue and Sun, Jingwei and Chen, Xiang and Zhang, Fan and Chen, Changyou and Chen, Yiran and Li, Hai. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 202:41354-41381, 2023.
• MISO: Legacy-compatible Privacy-preserving Single Sign-on using Trusted Execution Environments. Xu, Rongwu and Yang, Sen and Zhang, Fan and Fang, Zhixuan. In 2023 IEEE 8th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P'23).
  • arXiv
  • IEEE Xplore
• He-HTLC: Revisiting Incentives in HTLC. Sarisht Wadhwa, Jannis Stoeter, Fan Zhang, Kartik Nayak. In Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS'23).
  • ePrint
  • Blog post at Decentralized Thoughts

2022

• zkBridge: Trustless Cross-chain Bridges Made Practical. Tiancheng Xie, Jiaheng Zhang, Zerui Cheng, Fan Zhang, Yupeng Zhang, Yongzheng Jia, Dan Boneh, and Dawn Song. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'22).
  • ACM DL
  • arXiv
• Empirical Analysis of EIP-1559: Transaction Fees, Waiting Time, and Consensus Security. Y. Liu, Y. Lu, K. Nayak, F. Zhang, L. Zhang, Y. Zhao. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).
  • Covered in Coin Metrics,
  • ACM DL
  • arXiv

2021

• CanDID: Can-Do Decentralized Identity with Legacy Compatibility, Sybil-Resistance, and Accountability. D. Maram, H. Malvai, F. Zhang, N. Jean-Louis, A. Frolov, T. Kell, T. Lobban, C. Moy, A. Juels, and A. Miller. In IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P'21).
  • ePrint

2020

• DECO: Liberating Web Data Using Decentralized Oracles for TLS. F. Zhang, SKD Maram, H. Malvai, S. Goldfeder, and A. Juels. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).
  • Licensed to Chainlink.
  • Covered in Forbes, CoinDesk, CoinTelegraph, PR Newswire, FXStreet
  • Project Website
  • ACM DL
  • arXiv
• Design Choices for Central Bank Digital Currency: Policy and Technical Considerations. S. Allen, S. Čapkun, I. Eyal, G. Fanti, B. Ford, J. Grimmelmann, A. Juels, K. Kostiainen, S. Meiklejohn, A. Miller, E. Prasad, K. Wüst, and F. Zhang(Authors are ordered alphabetically). In NBER Working Paper No. 27634.
  • NBER Working Paper
• Order-Fairness for Byzantine Consensus. M. Kelkar, F. Zhang, S. Goldfeder, and A. Juels. In The Annual International Cryptology Conference (CRYPTO'20).
  • ePrint
• The Ekiden Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contracts. F. Zhang, W. He, R. Cheng, J. Kos, N. Hynes, N. Johnson, A. Juels, A. Miller, and D. Song. In IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine (Volume: 18, Issue: 3, May-June 2020).
  • Invited paper.
  • IEEE Xplore

2019

• CHURP: Dynamic-Committee Proactive Secret Sharing. SKD Maram*, F. Zhang*, L. Wang, A. Low, Y. Zhang, A. Juels, and D. Song(*indicates equal contribution). In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'19).
  • Covered in MIT Tech Review China
  • Project Website
  • code
  • ACM DL
  • ePrint
• Tesseract: Real-Time Cryptocurrency Exchange using Trusted Hardware. I. Bentov, Y. Ji, F. Zhang, Y. Li, X. Zhao, L. Breidenbach, P. Daian, and A. Juels. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'19).
  • ACM DL
  • ePrint
• Ekiden: A Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contracts. R. Cheng, F. Zhang, J. Kos, W. He, N. Hynes, N. M. Johnson, A. Juels, A. Miller, and D. Song. In IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P'19).
  • Implemented by Oasis Labs. Invited to appear in IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine.
  • Covered in Forbes
  • arXiv
  • IEEE Xplore
• Paralysis Proofs: Secure Dynamic Access Structures for Cryptocurrency Custody and More. F. Zhang, P. Daian, I. Bentov, I. Miers, and A. Juels. In ACM Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT'19).
  • Covered in BitcoinMagazine
  • ACM DL
  • ePrint

2017

• REM: Resource-Efficient Mining for Blockchains. F. Zhang, I. Eyal, R. Escriva, A. Juels, and R. van Renesse. In USENIX Security Symposium (Security'17).
  • Covered in IEEE Spectrum
  • USENIX
• Sealed-Glass Proofs: Using Transparent Enclaves to Prove and Sell Knowledge. F. Tramèr, F. Zhang, H. Lin, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, A. Juels, and E. Shi. In IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P'17).
  • ePrint
  • IEEE Xplore
• Solidus: Confidential Distributed Ledger Transactions via PVORM. E. Cecchetti, F. Zhang, Y. Ji, A. E. Kosba, A. Juels, and E. Shi. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'17).
  • ACM DL
  • ePrint

2016

• Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs. F. Tramèr, F. Zhang, A. Juels, M. K. Reiter, and T. Ristenpart. In USENIX Security Symposium (Security'16).
  • USENIX
• Town Crier: An Authenticated Data Feed for Smart Contracts. F. Zhang, E. Cecchetti, K. Croman, A. Juels, and E. Shi. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'16).
  • Licensed to ChainLink.
  • Covered in MIT Tech Review, Forbes, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Unhashed, CoinDesk, MIT Technology Review, ETHNews
  • Project Website
  • code
  • ACM DL
  • ePrint

2015

• PlateClick: Bootstrapping Food Preferences Through an Adaptive Visual Interface. L. Yang, Y. Cui, F. Zhang, J. P. Pollak, S. Belongie, and D. Estrin. In ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'15).
  • ACM DL