The paper introduces PACE (Policy‑Attested Contract Execution), a framework that sits between large‑language‑model (LLM) based autonomous AI agents and on‑chain DeFi operations. PACE defines typed transaction intents, a deterministic policy verifier, and signed Policy Decision Records (PDRs) that cryptographically bind an approved intent, policy, and simulation report to the exact on‑chain execution bytes, providing replay and expiration protection. In evaluations across 40 tasks and six baselines, PACE achieves zero unsafe executions and zero false positives, outperforming unguarded agents by a large margin.
By Rabimba Karanjai (Larry), Yang Lu (Larry), Richard Williamson (Larry), Hemanth Hm (Larry), Prakhar Mehrotra (Larry), Lei Xu (Larry), Weidong (Larry), Shi
arXiv:2603. 26270v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Smart contracts govern billions of dollars in decentralized finance (DeFi), yet automated vulnerability detection remains challenging because many vulnerabilities are tightly coupled with project-specific business logic.
By Ziqiao Kong, Wanxu Xia, Chong Wang, Yue Xue, Yi Lu, Pan Li, Shaohua Li, Zong Cao, Yang Liu
arXiv:2606. 03128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Smart contracts face critical security challenges that require thorough auditing in decentralized web services.
By Bagus Rakadyanto Oktavianto Putra, Muhamad Risqi Utama Saputra, Widyawan, Guntur Dharma Putra
arXiv:2608. 20271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid proliferation of memecoins on blockchain platforms has increased the risk of fraudulent activities, particularly rug pulls.
By Jianghai Li, Pavel Kuznetsov, Yury Yanovich, Konstantin Nott-Whaley, Igor Vodolazov
The paper presents a method for early detection of fraudulent memecoins (rug pulls) on the Solana blockchain, using a dataset of 6.4 million tokens collected over seven months. It shows that most rug pulls occur within an hour of launch and that classic machine learning models, especially Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), can reliably predict them using only the first five minutes of trading data. Cross‑platform data fusion between PumpFun and Raydium further improves detection by reducing domain shift.
arXiv:2607. 27350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sybil bots are Ethereum actors that imitate legitimate users to extract airdrop rewards or influence governance.
By Micha{\l} Bartnicki, Jaros{\l}aw A. Chudziak