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Measuring Miner Decentralization in Proof-of-Work Blockchains
Sishan Long, Soumya Basu, Emin Gün Sirer
Proof of work cryptocurrencies began with the promise of a more egalitarian future with a decentralized monetary system with no powerful entities in charge. While this vision is fa…
CedrusDB: Persistent Key-Value Store with Memory-Mapped Lazy-Trie
Maofan Yin, Hongbo Zhang, Robbert van Renesse +1
As a result of RAM becoming cheaper, there has been a trend in key-value store design towards maintaining a fast in-memory index (such as a hash table) while logging user operation…
A Classification Framework for Stablecoin Designs
Amani Moin, Emin Gün Sirer, Kevin Sekniqi
Stablecoins promise to bridge fiat currencies with the world of cryptocurrencies. They provide a way for users to take advantage of the benefits of digital currencies, such as abil…
Scalable and Probabilistic Leaderless BFT Consensus through Metastability
Team Rocket, Maofan Yin, Kevin Sekniqi +2
This paper introduces a family of leaderless Byzantine fault tolerance protocols, built around a metastable mechanism via network subsampling. These protocols provide a strong prob…
sAVSS: Scalable Asynchronous Verifiable Secret Sharing in BFT Protocols
Soumya Basu, Alin Tomescu, Ittai Abraham +3
This paper introduces a new way to incorporate verifiable secret sharing (VSS) schemes into Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) protocols. This technique extends the threshold guarante…
Enabling Strong Database Integrity using Trusted Execution Environments
Kai Mast, Lequn Chen, Emin Gün Sirer
Many applications require the immutable and consistent sharing of data across organizational boundaries. Because conventional datastores cannot provide this functionality, blockcha…