Yann Vonlanthen

Distributed Computing Group
Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK)
Department Electrical Engineering (D-ITET)
Office ETZ G 97
ETH Zurich

Gloriastrasse 35
8092 Zurich
Switzerland

phone	+41 44 63 26326
fax	+41 44 63 21036
email	yvonlanthen@ethz.ch

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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Banyan: Fast Rotating Leader BFT (Best paper award)
Yann Vonlanthen, Jakub Sliwinski, Massimo Albarello and Roger Wattenhofer.
25th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference, Hong Kong, China, December 2024.
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SoK: Attacks on DAOs
Rainer Feichtinger, Robin Fritsch, Lioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen and Roger Wattenhofer.
Sixth International Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT), Vienna, Austria, September 2024.
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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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Dissecting the EIP-2930 Optional Access Lists
Lioba Heimbach, Quentin Kniep, Yann Vonlanthen, Roger Wattenhofer and Patrick Züst.
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), Willemstad, Curaçao, March 2024.
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The Hidden Shortcomings of (D)AOs - An Empirical Study of On-Chain Governance
Rainer Feichtinger, Robin Fritsch, Yann Vonlanthen and Roger Wattenhofer.
4th Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance (CoDecFin) 2023, 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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Consensus on Demand
Jakub Sliwinski, Yann Vonlanthen and Roger Wattenhofer.
24th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS), Clermont-Ferrand, France, November 2022.
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Scalable Byzantine Reliable Broadcast (Extended Version) (Best paper award)
Rachid Guerraoui, Petr Kuznetsov, Matteo Monti, Matej Pavlovic, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi and Yann Vonlanthen.
33rd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Budapest, Hungary, February 2020.
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Theses & Labs

	Title	Type	Contact/Supervisor	Assigned	Student(s)
Current Theses & Labs
	Creating the Next Decentralized Computer	B	Anton Paramonov, Yann Vonlanthen	FS 25	Cedric Schwyter
	Scalable Proof-of-Personhood	B	Yann Vonlanthen	FS 25	Jan Boog
	Simulating Democracy through LLM Agents	M	Frédéric Berdoz, Yann Vonlanthen	FS 25	Yann Billeter
	Chaos Testing Blockchain Networks: Simulating Real-World Failures	M	Yann Vonlanthen	HS 24	Ludovic Burnier
	Layer-2s and MEV	B	Lioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen	HS 24	Ozan Solmaz
Past Theses & Labs
	Title	Type	Contact/Supervisor	Assigned	Student(s)
	Recommender Systems for Politics [confidential]	G	Frédéric Berdoz, Yann Vonlanthen	HS 24	Niklas Pohl
	Uncovering Discovery: A Deep Dive Into Ethereum’s Discovery Protocols [confidential]	M	Lucianna Kiffer, Yann Vonlanthen	FS 24	Jérôme Landtwing
	FuzzNet: Imitating Byzantine Behavior in Distributed Systems [confidential]	M	Yann Vonlanthen	FS 24	Marc Widmer
	Toward Robust Voting Advice Applications: Lessons from Smartvote [confidential]	M	Yann Vonlanthen, Frédéric Berdoz	FS 24	Dustin Brunner
	Mangrove: Fast and Parallelizable Smart Contract Agreement [confidential]	M	Yann Vonlanthen, Quentin Kniep	FS 24	Anton Paramonov
	Airdrop Mechanisms and Their Sybil Resistance [confidential]	B	Lioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen	HS 23	Noe Marty
	Locating and Hiding Validators in the Ethereum Consensus Network [confidential]	M	Lucianna Kiffer, Yann Vonlanthen	HS 23	Juan Villacis
	Attacks on DAOs [confidential]	S	Lioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen	HS 23	Rainer Feichtinger
	Building Practical Distributed Algorithms	G	Yann Vonlanthen	HS 23	Andrea Jiang, Catherine Schmit
	Building Practical Longest Chain Protocols	G	Yann Vonlanthen	HS 23	Marc Widmer
	Post Merge Cryptocurrencies	B	Lucianna Kiffer, Yann Vonlanthen	FS 23	Sophia Skorik
	Enabling Interactions Between Encointer Local Communities	G	Yann Vonlanthen	FS 23	E. Delacour
	Analyzing the Use and Potential of Transaction Access Lists in Ethereum [confidential]	S	Yann Vonlanthen, Quentin Kniep	FS 23	Patrick Züst
	Dangers of Voting Advice Applications in Swiss Politics [confidential]	M	Judith Beestermöller, Yann Vonlanthen	HS 22	Gina Stoffel
	Fast Internet Computer Consensus [confidential]	M	Jakub Sliwinski, Yann Vonlanthen	HS 22	Massimo Albarello
	Understanding Peer-Discovery in ETH 2.0	M	Lucianna Kiffer, Yann Vonlanthen	HS 22	Samuel Kaeser
	Agent-Based Simulation of Community Currencies with Basic Income	S	Yann Vonlanthen	FS 22	Damla Welti
	Do Politicians Keep Their Election Campaign Position? [confidential]	M	Yann Vonlanthen	FS 22	Roger Germann
	Machine Learning vs. Swiss Politics	B	Yann Vonlanthen, Robin Fritsch	FS 22	Douglas Orsini-Rosenberg
	More Democracy on the Blockchain [confidential]	B	Robin Fritsch, Yann Vonlanthen	FS 22	Rainer Feichtinger
	Optimizing Swiss Politics [confidential]	B	Yann Vonlanthen, Judith Beestermöller	FS 22	Leon Plath
	GitDAO - Blockchain Primitives for Trustless Open Source	M	Yann Vonlanthen	FS 22	Yves Zumbach
	Mining and Visualizing Ethereum [confidential]	B	Yann Vonlanthen, Lioba Heimbach	HS 21	Felix Schoellen

Yann Vonlanthen

Publications

Theses & Labs

Current Theses & Labs

Past Theses & Labs