This list is intended to help new students and enthusiasts learn about the field of blockchain research. If you have any papers to add, please submit a pull request on GitHub.
| Course Name | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Decentralized Finance | MOOC | https://defi-learning.org/f21 |
| Blockchain course | Imperial College London | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOa3v6xgsJullbz4uD13nm-U5D_cw0xLh |
| Blockchain course | Princeton University | https://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu |
| Paper title | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the open blockchain | O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2017 | https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook |
| Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction | Princeton University Press, 2016 | https://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu |
| Mastering Ethereum | O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2018 | https://github.com/ethereumbook/ethereumbook |
| Paper title | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin and Beyond: A Technical Survey on Decentralized Digital Currencies | COMST '16 | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7423672 |
| Paper title | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin White paper | White paper | https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf |
| Ethereum Yellowpaper | Yellowpaper | https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf |
| Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network | USENIX Security 2015 | https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-heilman.pdf |
| Paper title | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies | SOSP '17 | https://algorandcom.cdn.prismic.io/algorandcom%2Fa26acb80-b80c-46ff-a1ab-a8121f74f3a3_p51-gilad.pdf |
| Polkadot: Vision for a Heterogeneous Multi-Chain Framework | White paper | https://polkadot.network/PolkaDotPaper.pdf |
| Paper title | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|
| TxProbe: Discovering Bitcoin's Network Topology Using Orphan Transactions | FC '19 | https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00942 |
| Stick a fork in it: Analyzing the Ethereum Network Partition | HotNets '17 | https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3152449 |
| Majority is not Enough | International conference on financial cryptography and data security 2014 | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.0243.pdf |
| On the Security and Performance of Proof of Work Blockchains | CCS, Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC conference on computer and communications security | https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2976749.2978341 |
| On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward | CCS '16: | https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/mining_CCS.pdf |
| Misbehavior in Bitcoin: A Study of Double-Spending and Accountability | ACM Transactions on Information and System Security '15 | <<https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2732196 |
| Tampering with the Delivery of Blocks and Transactions in Bitcoin | CCS '15: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security | https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2810103.2813655 |
| Paper title | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges | 2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) | https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05234 |
| Selfish & Opaque Transaction Ordering in the Bitcoin Blockchain: The Case for Chain Neutrality | IMC '21 | https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3487552.3487823 |
| Byzantine Ordered Consensus without Byzantine Oligarchy | OSDI '20 | https://www.cs.cornell.edu/lorenzo/papers/Zhang20Byzantine.pdf |
| Order-Fairness for Byzantine Consensus | IACR-CRYPTO-2020 | https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/269.pdf |
| SoK: Transparent Dishonesty: Front-Running Attacks on Blockchain | FC 2019: Financial Cryptography and Data Security | https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1628.pdf |
| Frontrunner Jones and the Raiders of the DarkForest: An Empirical Study of Frontrunning on the Ethereum Blockchain | USENIX SECURITY '21 | https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec21-torres.pdf |
| He-HTLC: Revisiting Incentives in HTLC | --- | https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/546.pdf |
| Paper title | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Chainlink 2.0: Next Steps in the Evolution of Decentralized Oracle Networks | White paper | https://research.chain.link/whitepaper-v2.pdf |
| Chainlink Off-chain Reporting Protocol | White paper | https://research.chain.link/ocr.pdf |
| Paper title | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|
| High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges | S&P'21 | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9519421 |
| Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest? | S&P'22 | <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.05511.pdf |
| On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in DeFi Protocols | S&P'21 | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9519469 |
| Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit | FC '21 | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.03810.pdf |
| A Flash(bot) in the Pan: Measuring Maximal Extractable Value in Private Pools | IMC '22 | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.04185.pdf |
| Paper title | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|
| An Empirical Study of DeFi Liquidations: Incentives, Risks, and Instabilities | IMC'21 | https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3487552.3487811 |
| Speculative Multipliers on DeFi: Quantifying On-Chain Leverage Risks | FC '22 | https://www.ifca.ai/fc22/preproceedings/71.pdf |
| Liquidations: DeFi on a Knife-edge | FC '21 | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.13235.pdf |
| Paper title | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|
| CeFi vs. DeFi--Comparing Centralized to Decentralized Finance | CryptoValley Conference '21 | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.08157.pdf |
| The Decentralized Financial Crisis: Attacking DeFi | FC '21 | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.03810.pdf |
| Paper title | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|
| SoK: Communication Across Distributed Ledgers | FC '21 | https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1128.pdf |
| Paper title | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin-NG: A Scalable Blockchain Protocol | NSDI ’16 | https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi16/nsdi16-paper-eyal.pdf |
| On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains (A position Paper) | FC ’16 | https://fc16.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/CDE+16.pdf |
| Paper title | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|
| LedgerHedger: Gas Reservation for Smart-Contract Security | --- | https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/056.pdf |
| MAD-HTLC: Because HTLC is Crazy-Cheap to Attack | S&P '21 | https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12031 |
| Do you need a Blockchain? | Crypto Valley '18 | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8525392 |
| Is Bitcoin a Decentralized Currency | IEEE Security & Privacy ( Volume: 12, Issue: 3, May-June 2014) | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6824541 |