Duc V. Le

Publications and Preprints

• Circle's Post-Quantum Security Roadmap: Securing Blockchains, Smart Contracts, and Digital Assets for the Quantum Era,

  Circle Whitepaper 2026. [link] Mira Belenkiy, Duc V. Le, Gordon Liao, Vipin Singh Sehrawat, Dragos Rotaru, Sergey Gorbunov, Milap Sheth, Jay Logelin, Anthony De Abreu, Dan Boneh

• Concave is the New Linear: The Impossibility of Anti-Plutocratic DAO Governance,

  arXiv 2026. [link] Austin Bennett, Preston Vander Vos, Duc V. Le, Mira Belenkiy

• Scalable Off-Chain Auctions,

  NDSS 2026. [link] Mohsen Minaei, Ranjit Kumaresan, Andrew Beams, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Yibin Yang, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Mahdi Zamani, Duc V. Le

• OptiBridge: A Trustless, Cost-Efficient Bridge Between the Lightning Network and Ethereum,

  ACNS 2026. [link] Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Duc V. Le, Mohsen Minaei

• Lite-PoT: Practical Powers-of-Tau Setup Ceremony,

  CCS 2025. [link] Lucien K. L. Ng, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Mohsen Minaei, Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Adithya Bhat, Duc V. Le

• DTL: Data Tumbling Layer - A Composable Unlinkability Primitive for Smart Contracts,

  AsiaCCS 2025. [link] Mohsen Minaei, Pedro Moreno Sanchez, Zhiyong Fang, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Navid Alamati, Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Ranjit Kumaresan, Duc V. Le

• DSKE: Digital Signatures with Key Extraction,

  CT-RSA 2025. [link] Zhipeng Wang, Orestis Alpos, Alireza Kavousi, Harry W. H. Wong, Sze Yiu Chau, Duc V. Le, Christian Cachin

• AUPCH: Auditable Unlinkable Payment Channel Hubs,

  CBT 2025. [link] Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Mohsen Minaei, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Duc V. Le

• BlindPerm: Efficient MEV Mitigation with an Encrypted Mempool and Permutation,

  OPODIS 2025. [link] Alireza Kavousi, Duc V. Le, Philipp Jovanovic, George Danezis

• A Plug-and-Play Long-Range Defense System for Proof-of-Stake Blockchains,

  ESORICS 2024. [link] Lucien K.L. Ng, Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Duc V. Le, Mohsen Minaei, Ranjit Kumaresan, Mahdi Zamani

• Programmable Payment Channels,

  ACNS 2024. [link] Yibin Yang, Mohsen Minaei, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Ranjit Kumaresan, Duc V. Le, Mahdi Zamani

• Towards Precise Reporting of Cryptographic Misuses,

  NDSS 2024. [link] Yikang Chen, Yibo Liu, Ka Lok Wu, Duc V. Le, Sze Yiu Chau

• A Transaction-Level Model for Blockchain Privacy,

  FC 2024. [link] François-Xavier Wicht, Zhipeng Wang, Duc V. Le, Christian Cachin

• Pay Less for Your Privacy: Towards Cost-Effective On-Chain Mixers,

  AFT 2023. [link] Zhipeng Wang, Marko Cirkovic, Duc V. Le, William Knottenbelt, Christian Cachin

• Modeling Resources in Permissionless Longest-chain Total-order Broadcast,

  OPODIS 2022. [link] Sarah Azouvi, Christian Cachin, Duc V. Le, Marko Vukolic, Luca Zanolini

• AMR: Autonomous Coin Mixer with Privacy Preserving Reward Distribution,

  AFT 2021. [link] Duc V. Le, Arthur Gervais

• High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges,

  S&P Oakland 2021. [link] Liyi Zhou, Kaihua Qin, Christof Ferreira Torres, Duc V. Le, Arthur Gervais

• T3: Scaling Oblivious Accesses to Large-Scale Blockchain,

  PETS 2020. [link] [paper] [code] Duc V. Le, Lizzy Tengana Hurtado, Adil Ahmad, Mohsen Minaei, Byoungyoung Lee, Aniket Kate

• DLSAG: Dual Linkable Spontaneous Anonymous Group Signatures,

  Financial Crypto 2020. [link] [paper] [code] Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Arthur Blue, Duc V. Le, Sarang Noether, Brandon Goodell, Aniket Kate

• Flexible Digital Signatures,

  ESORICS 2019. [link] [paper] Duc V. Le, Mahimna Kelkar, Aniket Kate

People

I worked with:

• Lucien K. L. Ng on

  "Power of Tau ceremony optimization (CCS ‘25); Long-Range Defense for PoS Blockchains (ESORICS ‘24)"

• François-Xavier Wicht (Master Student) on

  "Blockchain Privacy Notions Using the Transaction Graph Model (FC ‘24)"

• Marko Cirkovic (Bachelor Student) on

  "Cost-Effective Onchain Mixers (AFT ‘23)"

• Lizzy Tengana Hurtado on

  "Oblivious Database for Blockchain Clients (PETS ‘20)"