Publications (13)
Political Plasticity: An Analysis of Ideological Adaptability in Large Language Models
Bruno Bianchi, Diego Tiscornia, Matias Travizano +1
Since the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), a significant area of research has focused on their intrinsic biases, particularly in political discourse. This study investigates…
BATTLE for Bitcoin: Capital-Efficient Optimistic Bridges with Large Committees
Sergio Demian Lerner, Ariel Futoransky
We present BATTLE for Bitcoin, a DoS-resilient dispute layer that secures optimistic bridges between Bitcoin and rollups or sidechains. Our design adapts the BATTLE tournament prot…
BatPay: a gas efficient protocol for the recurrent micropayment of ERC20 tokens
Hartwig Mayer, Ismael Bejarano, Daniel Fernandez +5
BatPay is a proxy scaling solution for the transfer of ERC20 tokens. It is suitable for micropayments in one-to-many and few-to-many scenarios, including digital markets and the di…
An Oblivious Password Cracking Server
Aureliano Calvo, Ariel Futoransky, Carlos Sarraute
Building a password cracking server that preserves the privacy of the queries made to the server is a problem that has not yet been solved. Such a server could acquire practical re…
ESSPI: ECDSA/Schnorr Signed Program Input for BitVMX
Sergio Demian Lerner, Martin Jonas, Ariel Futoransky
The BitVM and BitVMX protocols have long relied on inefficient one-time signature (OTS) schemes like Lamport and Winternitz for signing program inputs. These schemes exhibit signif…
OTS-PC: OTS-based Payment Channels for the Lightning Network
Sergio Demian Lerner, Ariel Futoransky
We present a new type of bidirectional payment channel based on One-Time Signatures on state sequence numbers. This new construction is simpler than the Poon-Dryja construction, bu…