Lioba Heimbach
Distributed Computing Group
Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK)
Department Electrical Engineering (D-ITET)
Office ETZ G 95
ETH Zurich
Gloriastrasse 35
8092 Zurich
Switzerland
| phone | +41 44 63 27057 |
| fax | +41 44 63 21036 |
Publications
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The Potential of Self-Regulation for Front-Running Prevention on Decentralized Exchanges
Lioba Heimbach, Eric Schertenleib and Roger Wattenhofer.
22nd Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), Geneva, Switzerland, July 2023.
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FnF-BFT: A BFT protocol with provable performance under attack
Zeta Avarikioti, Lioba Heimbach, Roland Schmid, Laurent Vanbever, Roger Wattenhofer and Patrick Wintermeyer.
30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO), Alcala de Henares, Spain, June 2023.
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Short Squeeze in DeFi Lending Market: Decentralization in Jeopardy?
Lioba Heimbach, Eric Schertenleib and Roger Wattenhofer.
3rd Workshop on Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Bol, Brač, Croatia, May 2023.
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DeFi and NFTs Hinder Blockchain Scalability
Lioba Heimbach, Quentin Kniep, Yann Vonlanthen and Roger Wattenhofer.
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), Bol, Brač, Croatia, May 2023.
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Exploring Price Accuracy on Uniswap V3 in Times of Distress
Lioba Heimbach, Eric Schertenleib and Roger Wattenhofer.
2nd ACM Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security (DeFi), Los Angeles, California, USA, November 2022.
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Risks and Returns of Uniswap V3 Liquidity Providers
Lioba Heimbach, Eric Schertenleib and Roger Wattenhofer.
4th ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, September 2022.
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SoK: Preventing Transaction Reordering Manipulations in Decentralized Finance
Lioba Heimbach and Roger Wattenhofer.
4th ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, September 2022.
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Eliminating Sandwich Attacks with the Help of Game Theory
Lioba Heimbach and Roger Wattenhofer.
ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS), Nagasaki, Japan, June 2022.
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An Empirical Study of Market Inefficiencies in Uniswap and SushiSwap
Jan Arvid Berg, Robin Fritsch, Lioba Heimbach and Roger Wattenhofer.
2nd Workshop on Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Grenada, May 2022.
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Behavior of Liquidity Providers in Decentralized Exchanges
Lioba Heimbach, Ye Wang and Roger Wattenhofer.
2021 Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology (CVCBT), Rotkreuz, Switzerland, October 2021.
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PIBES - A Competing-Flow-Aware Protocol for Real-Time Video Applications
Lioba Heimbach, Lingfeng Guo, Rudolf KH Ngan and Jack YB Lee.
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, August 2020.
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Ride the Lightning: The Game Theory of Payment Channels
Zeta Avarikioti, Lioba Heimbach, Yuyi Wang and Roger Wattenhofer.
24th Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, February 2020.
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 | Bitcoin Lightning Network Statistics and On-Chain Analysis [confidential] | B | Florian Grötschla, Lioba Heimbach | HS 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Detecting DDoS Attacks on Ethereum Validators [confidential] | M | Lioba Heimbach | HS 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Fair Transaction Ordering [confidential] | M | Lioba Heimbach, Andrei Constantinescu | HS 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Incentivizing Simple Transactions [confidential] | S | Lioba Heimbach, Andrei Constantinescu | HS 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Measuring Cryptocurrency Networks | B | Lucianna Kiffer, Lioba Heimbach | HS 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Clustering Ethereum Addresses [confidential] | S | Lioba Heimbach, Quentin Kniep | FS 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hedging the Risks of Liquidity Providers | B | Lioba Heimbach, Robin Fritsch | FS 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Arbitrage Opportunities on Decentralized Exchanges | B | Robin Fritsch, Lioba Heimbach | FS 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Optimal Liquidity Pool Graphs [confidential] | M | Lioba Heimbach, Judith Beestermöller | FS 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Mining and Visualizing Ethereum [confidential] | B | Yann Vonlanthen, Lioba Heimbach | HS 21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Understanding PancakeSwap Through Data [confidential] | S | Lioba Heimbach, Ye Wang | HS 21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Understanding Uniswap V3 Through Data [confidential] | B | Lioba Heimbach, Ye Wang | HS 21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Optimal Trading and Arbitrage in a Network of Decentralized Exchanges [confidential] | B | Robin Fritsch, Lioba Heimbach | FS 21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||