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Arthur Gervais

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Arthur Gervais

@HatforceSec

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Arthur Gervais
@HatforceSec
Sep 1, 2025
AI for Security has never been more exciting. Let me present MAPTA, our multi-agent framework that found multiple (now confirmed!) Remote Code Executions (RCE's) in flagship web products of Tier-1 companies. Why the secrecy? We're good boys, letting them cook patched through
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Arthur Gervais
@HatforceSec
Jun 22, 2023
1/ 🧵 Do you still need a manual smart contract audit? #GPT #LLM
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Arthur Gervais
@HatforceSec
Aug 11, 2023
Replying to @ProfFeynman
Who isn't a student
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Arthur Gervais
@HatforceSec
Apr 26, 2023
Sorry, but we had to.
arxiv.org
Blockchain Large Language Models
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...
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Arthur Gervais
@HatforceSec
Mar 4, 2021
New @IEEESSP'21 paper on how to discover automagically profitable transactions in the intertwined DeFi graph: arxiv.org/abs/2103.02228 with @lzhou1110 @KaihuaQIN @CULLYAntoine @convoluted_code ✨🔥🎉
Arthur Gervais
@HatforceSec
Oct 14, 2021
.@AriJuels is live, giving Lecture 8 on * Oracles * at the #DeFiMOOC youtube.com/watch?v=vFcW18…! Also, check out the associated quiz (forms.gle/Bej86dG6QHMPof…) and recommended readings 😃
Arthur Gervais
@HatforceSec
Apr 29, 2023
Our paper “Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?” has been nominated for the Springer Cybersecurity Award 2023. We’d really appreciate your support during the public voting phase, it takes about 10 seconds 📷 (Track B, Best Practical Research Paper):
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Arthur Gervais
@HatforceSec
Jan 18, 2021
How much value is being extracted from DeFi, and by whom? 😈 We estimate that the extracted profit from sandwich attacks, liquidations and arbitrage over the past 2 years is 28.80M USD! 💸 loom.ly/tVybgMY Joint work with @KaihuaQIN @lzhou1110 #DeFi #DiveDeeper
Arthur Gervais
@HatforceSec
Nov 21, 2023
Unreal, my two most senior PhD students @KaihuaQIN @lzhou1110 each now have over 1000 citations, accumulated within their PhD. They are on the job market!!
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Arthur Gervais
@HatforceSec
Nov 4, 2020
What's the state of the art #Front-Running #Research on #DeFi? I've been asked by @convoluted_code and others, let's collect pointers. It seems things started with this insightful SoK at FC by @sbetamc, Seyedehmahsa Moosavi and @PulpSpy.
Arthur Gervais
@HatforceSec
Jul 9, 2025
This paper goes from A to Z
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Arthur Gervais
@HatforceSec
Sep 1, 2025
Replying to @HatforceSec
The patched XBOW benchmark, our evaluation results and code are freely available: github.com/arthurgervais/…. Full paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20816 Now, please, help us. We've got much work to do. Let's fix the security of the web!
GitHub - arthurgervais/mapta: We present MAPTA, a multi-agent system for autonomous web application...
From github.com
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Arthur Gervais
@HatforceSec
Nov 25, 2020
Our DeFi farming version of @TornadoCash is out. Anonymity set sizes can grow by attracting larger user demographics, not only privacy-interested folks. loom.ly/LSQUXcs, work with @levduc #DeFi #divedeeper
Arthur Gervais
@HatforceSec
May 1, 2022
Replying to @TheEVuniverse and @elonmusk