Publications

My publications with citation counts etc are listed on Google Scholar. My talks and conference presentations are on my YouTube channel.

2026

Uğur Şen, Sergei Tikhomirov, Sylvain Delhomme, Nadeem Bhati, Cyprien Grau. Rate-Limiting Nullifiers for Gasless Sequencer Admission in Ethereum Layer-2 Rollups (PDF, ePrint).

H. Cornelius, S. Tikhomirov, A. Revuelta, S. P. Vivier, A. Challani. The Waku Network as Infrastructure for dApps (PDF). Presented at DLT 2024 on 15 May 2024.
A. Revuelta, S. Tikhomirov, A. Challani, H. Cornelius, S. P. Vivier. Message Latency in Waku Relay with Rate Limiting Nullifiers (PDF, ePrint). Presented at IEEE DAPPS 2024 in July 2024.

C. Shikhelman, S. Tikhomirov. Unjamming Lightning: A Systematic Approach (PDF, ePrint, writeup).

A. Biryukov, G. Naumenko, S. Tikhomirov. Analysis and Probing of Parallel Channels in the Lightning Network (PDF, ePrint, writeup). Presented at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2022 on 3 May 2022 (pre-recorded video, slides, thread).
R. Pickhardt, S. Tikhomirov, A. Biryukov, M. Nowostawski. Security and Privacy of Lightning Network Payments with Uncertain Channel Balances (PDF, arXiv).

S. Tikhomirov. Security and Privacy of Blockchain Protocols and Applications (doctoral thesis) (PDF, ORBilu). Defended on 17 September 2020 (slides, video).
S. Tikhomirov, R. Pickhardt, A. Biryukov, M. Nowostawski. Probing Channel Balances in the Lightning Network (PDF, arXiv, writeup).
S. Tikhomirov, P. Moreno-Sanchez, M. Maffei. A Quantitative Analysis of Security, Anonymity and Scalability for the Lightning Network (PDF, ePrint). Presented at the IEEE Security and Privacy on the Blockchain workshop (affiliated with EuroS&P) on 7 September 2020 (video).

A. Biryukov, S. Tikhomirov. Deanonymization and linkability of cryptocurrency transactions based on network analysis (PDF, ORBilu, slides, video). Presented at the 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) on 17 June 2019.
A. Biryukov, S. Tikhomirov. Security and Privacy of Mobile Wallet Users in Bitcoin, Dash, Monero, and Zcash (PDF, ORBilu). In Pervasive and Mobile Computing, special issue on blockchain technologies.
A. Biryukov, S. Tikhomirov. Transaction Clustering Using Network Traffic Analysis for Bitcoin and Derived Blockchains (PDF, ORBilu, slides, writeup). Presented at the 2nd Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems (CryBlock) on 29 April 2019.

S. Tikhomirov, E. Voskresenskaya, I. Ivanitskiy, R. Takhaviev, E. Marchenko and Y. Aleksandrov. SmartCheck: Static Analysis of Ethereum Smart Contracts (PDF, ORBilu, slides, video). Presented at the 1st International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain on 27 May 2018.
A. Biryukov, D. Khovratovich, S. Tikhomirov. Privacy-preserving KYC on Ethereum (PDF, ORBilu, slides, video). Presented at the 1st ERCIM Blockchain Workshop on 9 May 2018.

S. Tikhomirov. Ethereum: State of knowledge and research perspectives (PDF, ORBilu, slides, video). Presented at the 10th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security on 24 October 2017.
A. Biryukov, D. Khovratovich, S. Tikhomirov. Findel: Secure Derivative Contracts for Ethereum (PDF, ORBilu, slides, video). Presented at the 1st Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts on 7 April 2017.

С. Тихомиров, Я. Александров, Е. Марченко, Л. Сафин. Поиск закладок в программном обеспечении (S. Tikhomirov, Y. Alexandrov, E. Marchenko, L. Safin. Finding undocumented features in programs). «Защита информации. Инсайд» №3, 2016 (abstract)