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Fast Deterministically Safe Proof-of-Work Consensus
Ali Farahbakhsh, Giuliano Losa, Youer Pu +2
Permissionless blockchains achieve consensus while allowing unknown nodes to join and leave the system at any time. They typically come in two flavors: proof of work (PoW) and proo…
MAD-DAG: Protecting Blockchain Consensus from MEV
Roi Bar-Zur, Aviv Tamar, Ittay Eyal
Blockchain security is threatened by selfish mining, where a miner (operator) deviates from the protocol to increase their revenue. Selfish mining is exacerbated by adverse conditi…
Prrr: Personal Random Rewards for Blockchain Reporting
Hongyin Chen, Yubin Ke, Xiaotie Deng +1
Smart contracts, the stateful programs running on blockchains, often rely on reports. Publishers are paid to publish these reports on the blockchain. Designing protocols that incen…
Elastic Restaking Networks
Roi Bar-Zur, Ittay Eyal
Many blockchain-based decentralized services require their validators (operators) to deposit stake (collateral), which is forfeited (slashed) if they misbehave. Restaking networks…