Pietro Carta
Pietro is a Blockchain Security Engineer at ChainSecurity
Session
05-27
17:00
25min
Novel on-chain oracle manipulations: Proposer bribing and L2 sequencer timing
Pietro Carta
On-chain price feeds are a powerful component of DeFi. For example, Curve price feeds can be used by lending protocols to ensure over-collateralization. On-chain oracles can be especially vulnerable to manipulation and must be protected.
We describe two novel on-chain oracle manipulation vectors: proposer bribing on Ethereum Mainnet, and L2 sequencer timing.
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