Selected Publications
* denotes equal contribution or alphabetical order.
Preprints
Q. Yu, G. Losa, N. Shrestha, X. Wang, “Angelfish: Leader, DAG, or Anywhere in Between”.
C. Li, Z. Sun, J. X. Yuu, X. Wang, “The Walls Have Ears: Unveiling Cross-Chain Sandwich Attacks in DeFi”.
D. Wu, J. Liu, X. Wang, J. Liu, Y. Xue, K. Ren, C. Chun, “Your Trust, Your Terms: A General Paradigm for Near-Instant Cross-Chain Transfer”.
J. Liu, Y. Xue, D. Wu, J. Liu, X. Wang, “Zeus: Defending against Fee Stealing and Griefing Attacks in Multi-Hop Payments”.
M. Bastankhah, V. Nadkarni, X. Wang, P. Viswanath, “AgileRate: Bringing Adaptivity and Robustness to DeFi Lending Markets”.
Z. Zhao, Z. Fang, X. Wang, X. Chen, Y. Zhou, “Proof-of-Learning with Incentive Security”.
L. Yang, X. Wang, V. Bagaria, G. Wang, M. Alizadeh, G. Fanti, D. Tse, and P. Viswanath, “Practical Low Latency Proof of Work Consensus”.
Conference Papers
J. Yao, H. Su, T. Liao, Z. Cheng, H. Zhang, X. Wang, P. Viswanath, “TAO: Tolerance-Aware Optimistic Verification for Floating-Point Neural Networks”, EuroSys 2026.
Y. Cao*, M. Zheng*, L. W. Cong, S. Li, X. Wang, “The Price of Interoperability: Exploring Cross-Chain Bridges and Their Economic Consequences”, ACM SIGMETRICS 2026.
Z. Peng, Y. Liu, Z. Sun, M. Li, Z. Luo, J. Zheng, W. Dong, X. He, X. Wang, Y. Xue, S. Xu, X. Huang, “JALMBench: Benchmarking Jailbreak Vulnerabilities in Audio Language Models”, ICLR 2026.
H. Su*, M. Liu*, J. Xu, X. Jia, X. Wang, “GasLiteAA: Optimizing ERC-4337 for Efficient and Secure Gas Sponsorship”, ICBC 2026.
N. Shrestha*, Q. Yu*, A. Kate, G. Losa, K. Nayak, X. Wang, “Optimistic, Signature-Free Reliable Broadcast and Its Applications”, ACM CCS 2025. (Distinguished Paper Award)
J. Lin, M. Liu, S. Li, X. Wang, “SecurePay: Enabling Secure and Fast Payment Processing for Platform Economy”, IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2025.
S. Wang, Y. Huang, W. Zhang, Y. Huang, X. Wang, J. Tang, “Private Order Flows and Builder Bidding Dynamics: The Road to Monopoly in Ethereum’s Block Building Market”, ACM WWW 2025.
C. Che, S. Li, X. Wang, “Manifoldchain: Maximizing Blockchain Throughput via BandwidthClustered Sharding”, NDSS 2025.
W. Tang, P. Sheng, R. Hi, P. Roy, X. Wang, G. Fanti, P. Viswanath, “Raft-Forensics: High Performance CFT Consensus with Accountability for Byzantine Faults”, AFT 2024.
Q. Yu, G. Losa, X. Wang, “TetraBFT: Reducing Latency of Unauthenticated, Responsive BFT Consensus”, ACM PODC 2024.
P. Sheng*, X. Wang*, S. Kannan, K. Nayak, and P. Viswanath, “TrustBoost: Boosting Trust among Interoperable Blockchains”, ACM CCS 2023.
X. Wang, S. Azouvi, and M. Vukolic, “Security Analysis of Filecoin’s Expected Consensus in the Byzantine vs Honest Model”, AFT 2023.
M. Fitzi*, X. Wang*, S. Kannan, A. Kiayias, N. Leonardos, P. Viswanath, and G. Wang, “Minotaur: Multi-Resource Blockchain Consensus”, ACM CCS 2022.
V. Bagaria*, A. Dembo*, S. Kannan*, S. Oh*, D. Tse*, P. Viswanath*, X. Wang*, and O. Zeitouni*, “Proof-of-Stake Longest Chain Protocols: Security vs Predictability”, ACM CCS 2022 Workshop on developments in consensus (ConsensusDay).
X. Wang, V. V. Muppirala, L. Yang, S. Kannan, and P. Viswanath, “Securing Parallel-Chain Protocols under Variable Mining Power”, ACM CCS 2021.
S. Sankagiri* , X. Wang*, S. Kannan, and P. Viswanath, “Blockchain CAP Theorem Allows User-Dependent Adaptivity and Finality”, Financial Cryptography 2021.
A. Dembo*, S. Kannan*, E. N. Tas*, D. Tse*, P. Viswanath*, X. Wang*, and O. Zeitouni*, “Everything is a Race and Nakamoto Always Wins”, ACM CCS 2020.
X. Wang, G. Kamath, V. Bagaria, S. Kannan, S. Oh, D. Tse, and P. Viswanath, “Proof-of-Stake Longest Chain Protocols Revisited”, The Stanford Blockchain Conference 2020 (SBC’20).