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Compounding of Wealth in Proof-of-Stake Cryptocurrencies
Giulia Fanti, Leonid Kogan, Sewoong Oh +3
Proof-of-stake (PoS) is a promising approach for designing efficient blockchains, where block proposers are randomly chosen with probability proportional to their stake. A primary…
Deconstructing the Blockchain to Approach Physical Limits
Vivek Bagaria, Sreeram Kannan, David Tse +2
Transaction throughput, confirmation latency and confirmation reliability are fundamental performance measures of any blockchain system in addition to its security. In a decentrali…
PolyShard: Coded Sharding Achieves Linearly Scaling Efficiency and Security Simultaneously
Songze Li, Mingchao Yu, Chien-Sheng Yang +3
Today's blockchain designs suffer from a trilemma claiming that no blockchain system can simultaneously achieve decentralization, security, and performance scalability. For current…
Dandelion++: Lightweight Cryptocurrency Networking with Formal Anonymity Guarantees
Giulia Fanti, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Surya Bakshi +4
Recent work has demonstrated significant anonymity vulnerabilities in Bitcoin's networking stack. In particular, the current mechanism for broadcasting Bitcoin transactions allows…