5 papers
QPQ 1DLT: A system for the rapid deployment of secure and efficient EVM-based blockchains
Simone Bottoni, Anwitaman Datta, Federico Franzoni +5
Limited scalability and transaction costs are, among others, some of the critical issues that hamper a wider adoption of distributed ledger technologies (DLT). That is particularly…
Clover: an Anonymous Transaction Relay Protocol for the Bitcoin P2P Network
Federico Franzoni, Vanesa Daza
The Bitcoin P2P network currently represents a reference benchmark for modern cryptocurrencies. Its underlying protocol defines how transactions and blocks are distributed through…
AToM: Active Topology Monitoring for the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network
Federico Franzoni, Xavier Salleras, Vanesa Daza
Over the past decade, the Bitcoin P2P network protocol has become a reference model for all modern cryptocurrencies. While nodes in this network are known, the connections among th…
Improving Bitcoin Transaction Propagation by Leveraging Unreachable Nodes
Federico Franzoni, Vanesa Daza
The Bitcoin P2P network is at the core of all communications between clients. The reachable part of this network has been explored and analyzed by numerous studies. Unreachable nod…
Leveraging Bitcoin Testnet for Bidirectional Botnet Command and Control Systems
Federico Franzoni, Ivan Abellan, Vanesa Daza
Over the past twenty years, the number of devices connected to the Internet grew exponentially. Botnets benefited from this rise to increase their size and the magnitude of their a…