The Economic Security of Exponential EIP-1559

We consider the problem of parameter selection for EIP-1559, a widely used gas pricing mechanism for blockchains. As opposed to previous work, we aim to achieve economic security, where the chosen parameters guarantee a lower bound on total collected gas fees whenever usage over a given time wind...

Gas Pricing Can Be Used To Extort Funds From Users of SChain Owner

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The function refundGasByUser can be exploited by the message sender to drain nodes and SChain owners of their balances when processing incoming messages. When a node collates a set of exits from an SChain to Ethereum, they are submitted on-chain via...