Dr.
Lucianna Kiffer

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Publications

Deanonymizing Ethereum Validators: The P2P Network Has a Privacy Issue
Lioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen, Juan Villacis, and Lucianna Kiffer and Roger Wattenhofer.
34th USENIX Security Symposium, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 2025.
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The PoW Landscape in the Aftermath of The Merge
Lucianna Kiffer, Sophia Skorik, Yann Vonlanthen and Roger Wattenhofer.
The 5th Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance (CoDecFin) 2024, Willemstad, Curaçao, March 2024.
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Ethereum's Proposer-Builder Separation: Promises and Realities
Lioba Heimbach, Lucianna Kiffer, Christof Ferreira Torres and Roger Wattenhofer.
2023 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Montreal, QC, Canada, October 2023.
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	Title	Type	Contact/Supervisor	Assigned	Student(s)
Past Theses & Labs
	Building a Multi-Cryptocurrency Node Explorer	S	Lucianna Kiffer	FS 24	Xin Hong
	Uncovering Discovery: A Deep Dive Into Ethereum’s Discovery Protocols [confidential]	M	Lucianna Kiffer, Yann Vonlanthen	FS 24	Jérôme Landtwing
	Infrastructure Impact on Cryptocurrency Networks	S	Lucianna Kiffer	FS 24	Kyle Fearne
	Tokenization of Ethereum Stake [confidential]	S	Lucianna Kiffer, Lioba Heimbach	HS 23	Endi Kucuku
	Locating and Hiding Validators in the Ethereum Consensus Network [confidential]	M	Lucianna Kiffer, Yann Vonlanthen	HS 23	Juan Villacis
	Crawling the Bitcoin Client Ecosystem	S	Lucianna Kiffer, Lioba Heimbach	HS 23	Hyun-Min Chang
	Peer-to-peer Networks under Churn	S	Lucianna Kiffer	HS 23	Thomas Buob
	The Peer Discovery Layer of the Ethereum Network	S	Lucianna Kiffer	HS 23	Jérôme Landtwing
	Post Merge Cryptocurrencies	B	Lucianna Kiffer, Yann Vonlanthen	FS 23	Sophia Skorik
	Measuring Cryptocurrency Networks	B	Lucianna Kiffer, Lioba Heimbach	HS 22	Hyun-Min Chang
	Understanding Peer-Discovery in ETH 2.0	M	Lucianna Kiffer, Yann Vonlanthen	HS 22	Samuel Kaeser