2 papers
cs.DC2025
The Smart Contract Model
Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou, Maurice Herlihy, Sucharita Jayanti +2
Many of the problems that arise in the context of blockchains and decentralized finance can be seen as variations on classical problems of distributed computing. The smart contract…
cs.CR2024
Byzantine Attacks Exploiting Penalties in Ethereum PoS
Ulysse Pavloff, Yackolley Amoussou-Genou, Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni
In May 2023, the Ethereum blockchain experienced its first inactivity leak, a mechanism designed to reinstate chain finalization amid persistent network disruptions. This mechanism…