Computing Optimal Manipulations in Cryptographic Self-Selection Proof-of-Stake Protocols

Matheus V. X. Ferreira, Aadityan Ganesh, Jack Hourigan +3

Cryptographic Self-Selection is a paradigm employed by modern Proof-of-Stake consensus protocols to select a block-proposing "leader." Algorand [Chen and Micali, 2019] proposes a c…