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View article: Progress, challenge and perspective of hydrogels application in food: a review
Progress, challenge and perspective of hydrogels application in food: a review Open
Hydrogels are adaptable materials characterized by three-dimensional polymer network structures that offer excellent structural stability, flexibility, and biocompatibility. These hydrogels can be engineered with various matrices and embed…
View article: Evasion Under Blockchain Sanctions
Evasion Under Blockchain Sanctions Open
Sanctioning blockchain addresses has become a common regulatory response to malicious activities. However, enforcement on permissionless blockchains remains challenging due to complex transaction flows and sophisticated fund-obfuscation te…
View article: Decompiling Smart Contracts with a Large Language Model
Decompiling Smart Contracts with a Large Language Model Open
The widespread lack of broad source code verification on blockchain explorers such as Etherscan, where despite 78,047,845 smart contracts deployed on Ethereum (as of May 26, 2025), a mere 767,520 (< 1%) are open source, presents a severe i…
View article: Advances in the Study of Microglia in Neuropathic Pain
Advances in the Study of Microglia in Neuropathic Pain Open
Neuropathic pain is a kind of chronic pain triggered by nervous system injury or dysfunction, whose mechanism is complex and lacks effective treatment. Recent studies have shown that microglia, as core immune cells in the central nervous s…
View article: The Application of Hydrogen Sulfide Fluorescent Probe in Food Preservation, Detection and Evaluation
The Application of Hydrogen Sulfide Fluorescent Probe in Food Preservation, Detection and Evaluation Open
This work primarily reviewed the response mechanism of fluorescent probes for H2S detection in foodstuffs in recent years, as well as the methodologies employed for detecting foodstuffs. Firstly, the significance of studying H2S gas as an …
View article: Fluorescent probes for sensing and visualizing methylglyoxal: progress, challenges, and perspectives
Fluorescent probes for sensing and visualizing methylglyoxal: progress, challenges, and perspectives Open
Developing effective tools for MGO is of great significance for studying pathogenesis. In this work, we provide a brief overview of recent research on fluorescent probes used for MGO biosensing in living cells, tissues, and animals.
View article: Do you still need a manual smart contract audit?
Do you still need a manual smart contract audit? Open
We investigate the feasibility of employing large language models (LLMs) for conducting the security audit of smart contracts, a traditionally time-consuming and costly process. Our research focuses on the optimization of prompt engineerin…
View article: Enhancing Smart Contract Security Analysis with Execution Property Graphs
Enhancing Smart Contract Security Analysis with Execution Property Graphs Open
Smart contract vulnerabilities have led to significant financial losses, with their increasing complexity rendering outright prevention of hacks increasingly challenging. This trend highlights the crucial need for advanced forensic analysi…
View article: Blockchain Large Language Models
Blockchain Large Language Models Open
This paper presents a dynamic, real-time approach to detecting anomalous blockchain transactions. The proposed tool, BlockGPT, generates tracing representations of blockchain activity and trains from scratch a large language model to act a…
View article: Smart Contract and DeFi Security Tools: Do They Meet the Needs of Practitioners?
Smart Contract and DeFi Security Tools: Do They Meet the Needs of Practitioners? Open
The growth of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem built on blockchain technology and smart contracts has led to an increased demand for secure and reliable smart contract development. However, attacks targeting smart contracts are i…
View article: The Blockchain Imitation Game
The Blockchain Imitation Game Open
The use of blockchains for automated and adversarial trading has become commonplace. However, due to the transparent nature of blockchains, an adversary is able to observe any pending, not-yet-mined transactions, along with their execution…
View article: Mitigating Decentralized Finance Liquidations with Reversible Call Options
Mitigating Decentralized Finance Liquidations with Reversible Call Options Open
Liquidations in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) are both a blessing and a curse -- whereas liquidations prevent lenders from capital loss, they simultaneously lead to liquidation spirals and system-wide failures. Since most lending and borrow…
View article: A Review for In Vitro and In Vivo Detection and Imaging of Gaseous Signal Molecule Carbon Monoxide by Fluorescent Probes
A Review for In Vitro and In Vivo Detection and Imaging of Gaseous Signal Molecule Carbon Monoxide by Fluorescent Probes Open
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a vital endogenous gaseous transmitter molecule involved in the regulation of various physiological and pathological processes in living biosystems. In order to investigate the biological function of CO, many techno…
View article: SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Attacks
SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Attacks Open
Within just four years, the blockchain-based Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem has accumulated a peak total value locked (TVL) of more than 253 billion USD. This surge in DeFi's popularity has, unfortunately, been accompanied by many …
View article: Cyclic Arbitrage in Decentralized Exchanges
Cyclic Arbitrage in Decentralized Exchanges Open
Decentralized Exchanges (DEXes) enable users to create markets for exchanging any pair of cryptocurrencies. The direct exchange rate of two tokens may not match the cross-exchange rate in the market, and such price discrepancies open up ar…
View article: On How Zero-Knowledge Proof Blockchain Mixers Improve, and Worsen User Privacy
On How Zero-Knowledge Proof Blockchain Mixers Improve, and Worsen User Privacy Open
Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) mixers are one of the most widely-used blockchain privacy solutions, operating on top of smart contract-enabled blockchains. We find that ZKP mixers are tightly intertwined with the growing number of Decentralize…
View article: Cyclic Arbitrage in Decentralized Exchanges
Cyclic Arbitrage in Decentralized Exchanges Open
Decentralized Exchanges (DEXes) enable users to create markets for exchanging any pair of cryptocurrencies. The direct exchange rate of two tokens may not match the cross-exchange rate in the market, and such price discrepancies open up ar…
View article: Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?
Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest? Open
Permissionless blockchains such as Bitcoin have excelled at financial services. Yet, opportunistic traders extract monetary value from the mesh of decentralized finance (DeFi) smart contracts through so-called blockchain extractable value …
View article: High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges
High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges Open
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) allow parties to participate in financial markets while retaining full custody of their funds. However, the transparency of blockchain-based DEX in combination with the latency for transactions to be processe…
View article: Isolation, genetic identification and degradation characteristics of COD-degrading bacterial strain in slaughter wastewater
Isolation, genetic identification and degradation characteristics of COD-degrading bacterial strain in slaughter wastewater Open
Contamination of water by meat production is an important and extensive environmental problem and even threat to human health. Biodegradation is a major mechanism which removes the pollutants from the environment. Therefore, the present st…