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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…
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…