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The Security Reference Architecture for Blockchains: Towards a Standardized Model for Studying Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Defenses
Ivan Homoliak, Sarad Venugopalan, Qingze Hum +3
Blockchains are distributed systems, in which security is a critical factor for their success. However, despite their increasing popularity and adoption, there is a lack of standar…
An Empirical Study into the Success of Listed Smart Contracts in Ethereum
Pieter Hartel, Ivan Homoliak, Daniël Reijsbergen
Since it takes time and effort to put a new product or service on the market, one would like to predict whether it will be a success. In general this is not possible, but it is pos…
StrongChain: Transparent and Collaborative Proof-of-Work Consensus
Pawel Szalachowski, Daniel Reijsbergen, Ivan Homoliak +1
Bitcoin is the most successful cryptocurrency so far. This is mainly due to its novel consensus algorithm, which is based on proof-of-work combined with a cryptographically-protect…
Weighted Voting on the Blockchain: Improving Consensus in Proof of Stake Protocols
Stefanos Leonardos, Daniel Reijsbergen, Georgios Piliouras
Proof of Stake (PoS) protocols rely on voting mechanisms to reach consensus on the current state. If an enhanced majority of staking nodes, also called validators, agree on a propo…
Incentives in Ethereum's Hybrid Casper Protocol
Vitalik Buterin, Daniel Reijsbergen, Stefanos Leonardos +1
We present an overview of hybrid Casper the Friendly Finality Gadget (FFG): a Proof-of-Stake checkpointing protocol overlaid onto Ethereum's Proof-of-Work blockchain. We describe i…