5 papers
Resilient Liquid Democracy: Mitigating Voting Power Imbalances via Secure Delegation Networks
Zhuolun Li, Evangelos Pournaras
Liquid democracy lets voters either vote directly or delegate their voting power to a trusted participant. Existing deployments make delegations publicly visible as they form, whic…
Are Voters Willing to Collectively Secure Elections? Unraveling a Practical Blockchain Voting System
Zhuolun Li, Haluk Sonmezler, Faiza Shirazi +5
Ensuring ballot secrecy is critical for fair and trustworthy electronic voting systems, yet achieving strong secrecy guarantees in decentralized, large-scale elections remains chal…
Blockchain and Edge Computing Nexus: A Large-scale Systematic Literature Review
Zeinab Nezami, Zhuolun Li, Chuhao Qin +3
Blockchain and edge computing are two instrumental paradigms of decentralized computation, driving key advancements in Smart Cities applications such as supply chain, energy and mo…
SoK: Consensus for Fair Message Ordering
Zhuolun Li, Evangelos Pournaras
Distributed ledgers rely on consensus protocols to commit messages in an agreed order. In practice, this order is often chosen for profit, which raises fairness concerns. For examp…
Send Message to the Future? Blockchain-based Time Machines for Decentralized Reveal of Locked Information
Zhuolun Li, Srijoni Majumdar, Evangelos Pournaras
Conditional information reveal systems automate the release of information upon meeting specific predefined conditions, such as time or location. This paper introduces a breakthrou…