Publications

Bibliometrics can be found in Google Scholar.

Manuscripts

RediSwap: MEV Redistribution Mechanism for CFMMs. Mengqian Zhang, Sen Yang, Fan Zhang. In submission.
- arXiv
Decentralization of Ethereum's Builder Market. Sen Yang, Kartik Nayak, Fan Zhang. In submission.
- 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

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).
- ePrint
Mechanism Design for ZK-Rollup Prover Markets. Wenhao Wang, Lulu Zhou, Aviv Yaish, Fan Zhang, Ben Fisch, Benjamin Livshits. In Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2025 (FC25).
- arXiv

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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