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CryptoConcurrency: (Almost) Consensusless Asset Transfer with Shared Accounts
Andrei Tonkikh, Pavel Ponomarev, Petr Kuznetsov +1
A typical blockchain protocol uses consensus to make sure that mutually mistrusting users agree on the order in which their operations on shared data are executed. However, it is k…
Homomorphic Sortition -- Secret Leader Election for PoS Blockchains
Luciano Freitas, Andrei Tonkikh, Adda-Akram Bendoukha +4
In a single secret leader election protocol (SSLE), one of the system participants is chosen and, unless it decides to reveal itself, no other participant can identify it. SSLE has…
Distributed Randomness from Approximate Agreement
Luciano Freitas, Petr Kuznetsov, Andrei Tonkikh
Randomisation is a critical tool in designing distributed systems. The common coin primitive, enabling the system members to agree on an unpredictable random number, has proven to…