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most citedIncentives Against Power Grabs or How to Engineer the Revolution in a Pooled Proof of Stake System

5 citations · 6 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CR2025

SoK: Preconfirmations

Aikaterini-Panagiota Stouka, Conor McMenamin, Demetris Kyriacou +2

In recent years, significant research efforts have focused on improving blockchain throughput and confirmation speeds without compromising security. While decreasing the time it ta…

cs.GT2025

Multiple Proposer Transaction Fee Mechanism Design: Robust Incentives Against Censorship and Bribery

Aikaterini-Panagiota Stouka, Julian Ma, Thomas Thiery

Transaction Fee Mechanism (TFM) design in blockchain protocols has gained significant attention following the pioneering work of Roughgarden [EC' 21], which established a formal fr…

cs.GT2024

Balancing Participation and Decentralization in Proof-of-Stake Cryptocurrencies

Aggelos Kiayias, Elias Koutsoupias, Francisco Marmolejo-Cossio +1

Proof-of-stake blockchain protocols have emerged as a compelling paradigm for organizing distributed ledger systems. In proof-of-stake (PoS), a subset of stakeholders participate i…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

On the (De)centralization of FruitChains

Aikaterini-Panagiota Stouka, Thomas Zacharias

One of the most important features of blockchain protocols is decentralization, as their main contribution is that they formulate a distributed ledger that will be maintained and e…

cs.GT2021★ 5 cited

Incentives Against Power Grabs or How to Engineer the Revolution in a Pooled Proof of Stake System

Aggelos Kiayias, Elias Koutsoupias, Aikaterini-Panagiota Stouka

Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain systems, especially those that allow stakeholders to organize themselves in ``stake-pools'', have emerged as a compelling paradigm for the deploymen…

cs.GT2019

Coalition-Safe Equilibria with Virtual Payoffs

Aggelos Kiayias, Aikaterini-Panagiota Stouka

Consider a set of parties invited to execute a protocol . The protocol will incur some cost to run while in the end (or at regular intervals), it will populate and update local…