4 papers
Robust and Automated Reconfiguration of Byzantine Wide-Area Replication
Rowdy Chotkan, Bulat Nasrulin, Johan Pouwelse +1
Distributed systems handle adversarial nodes through redundancy, which imposes a significant performance overhead. In blockchain systems, Byzantine fault-tolerant state-machine rep…
StarveSpam: Mitigating Spam with Local Reputation in Permissionless Blockchains
Rowdy Chotkan, Bulat Nasrulin, Jérémie Decouchant +1
Spam poses a growing threat to blockchain networks. Adversaries can easily create multiple accounts to flood transaction pools, inflating fees and degrading service quality. Existi…
MeritRank: Sybil Tolerant Reputation for Merit-based Tokenomics
Bulat Nasrulin, Georgy Ishmaev, Johan Pouwelse
Decentralized reputation systems are emerging as promising mechanisms to enhance the effectiveness of token-based economies. Unlike traditional monetary incentives, these systems r…
Taming Double-Spending in Offline Payments with Reputation-Weighted Loan Networks
Nektarios Evangelou, Rowdy Chotkan, Bulat Nasrulin +1
Blockchain solutions typically assume a synchronous network to ensure consistency and achieve consensus. In contrast, offline transaction systems aim to enable users to agree on an…