Lioba Heimbach
Lioba is a fourth-year Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Dr. Roger Wattenhofer in the Distributed Computing (Disco) group at ETH Zurich. Her research centers around blockchain protocols with a focus on decentralised finance (DeFi).
In particular, she strives towards enabling an accessible, decentralised, fair, and efficient blockchain and DeFi ecosystem. She works on proposing new protocols to tackle the identified problems and vulnerabilities.
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Session
The complex dynamics and interactions within multi-layer blockchain architecture present unique challenges for decentralized finance (DeFi). To fully understand and address these challenges, it is essential to examine the interplay between various blockchain layers. One example of this interplay is maximal extractable value (MEV), which largely originates from DeFi applications. The value associated with MEV exerts centralizing forces and introduces security vulnerabilities at the consensus layer.