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The Merkle Mountain Belt
Alfonso Cevallos, Robert Hambrock, Alistair Stewart
Merkle structures are widely used as commitment schemes: they allow a prover to publish a compact commitment to an ordered list of items, and then efficiently prove to a verifi…
Bridging Sapling: Private Cross-Chain Transfers
Aleixo Sanchez, Alistair Stewart, Fatemeh Shirazi
Interoperability is one of the main challenges of blockchain technologies, which are generally designed as self-contained systems. Interoperability schemes for privacy-focused bloc…
GRANDPA: a Byzantine Finality Gadget
Alistair Stewart, Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogia
Classic Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocols forfeit liveness in the face of asynchrony in order to preserve safety, whereas most deployed blockchain protocols forfeit safe…
Overview of Polkadot and its Design Considerations
Jeff Burdges, Alfonso Cevallos, Peter Czaban +8
In this paper we describe the design components of the heterogenous multi-chain protocol Polkadot and explain how these components help Polkadot address some of the existing shortc…
A verifiably secure and proportional committee election rule
Alfonso Cevallos, Alistair Stewart
The property of proportional representation in approval-based committee elections has appeared in the social choice literature for over a century, and is typically understood as av…