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LOPMM: A Low-Order Parlay Market Maker
Niusha Moshrefi, Ranvir Rana, Pramod Viswanath
Parlays - joint contracts on the simultaneous resolution of several events - are among the most heavily traded products in betting markets, but prediction markets have struggled to…
ParlayMarket: Automated Market Making for Parlay-style Joint Contracts
Ranvir Rana, Viraj Nadkarni, Niusha Moshrefi +1
Prediction markets are powerful mechanisms for information aggregation, but existing designs are optimized for single-event contracts. Traders frequently express beliefs about join…
BFT-PoLoc: A Byzantine Fortified Trigonometric Proof of Location Protocol using Internet Delays
Peiyao Sheng, Vishal Sevani, Ranvir Rana +2
Internet platforms depend on accurately determining the geographical locations of online users to deliver targeted services (e.g., advertising). The advent of decentralized platfor…
Proof of Diligence: Cryptoeconomic Security for Rollups
Peiyao Sheng, Ranvir Rana, Senthil Bala +2
Layer 1 (L1) blockchains such as Ethereum are secured under an "honest supermajority of stake" assumption for a large pool of validators who verify each and every transaction on it…
ZeroSwap: Data-driven Optimal Market Making in DeFi
Viraj Nadkarni, Jiachen Hu, Ranvir Rana +3
Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are major centers of matching liquidity supply and demand in Decentralized Finance. Their functioning relies primarily on the presence of liquidity p…
SAKSHI: Decentralized AI Platforms
Suma Bhat, Canhui Chen, Zerui Cheng +8
Large AI models (e.g., Dall-E, GPT4) have electrified the scientific, technological and societal landscape through their superhuman capabilities. These services are offered largely…
Optimal Bootstrapping of PoW Blockchains
Ranvir Rana, Dimitris Karakostas, Sreeram Kannan +2
Proof of Work (PoW) blockchains are susceptible to adversarial majority mining attacks in the early stages due to incipient participation and corresponding low net hash power. Boot…
Free2Shard: Adaptive-adversary-resistant sharding via Dynamic Self Allocation
Ranvir Rana, Sreeram Kannan, David Tse +1
Propelled by the growth of large-scale blockchain deployments, much recent progress has been made in designing sharding protocols that achieve throughput scaling linearly in the nu…
Barracuda: The Power of -polling in Proof-of-Stake Blockchains
Giulia Fanti, Jiantao Jiao, Ashok Makkuva +3
A blockchain is a database of sequential events that is maintained by a distributed group of nodes. A key consensus problem in blockchains is that of determining the next block (da…
Communication Algorithms via Deep Learning
Hyeji Kim, Yihan Jiang, Ranvir Rana +3
Coding theory is a central discipline underpinning wireline and wireless modems that are the workhorses of the information age. Progress in coding theory is largely driven by indiv…