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Crossroads: A Smart Contract Layer for Chain-Abstracted Assets
James Austgen, Dani Vilardell, Ari Juels
This paper introduces Crossroads, a smart contract layer for chain-abstracted assets. In Crossroads, assets from nearly any chain are represented on a single backend blockchain as…
Creds: Privately Inferred Credentials
Samuel Breckenridge, Dani Vilardell, Derek Leung +4
Decentralized verifiable credential systems have seen limited deployment in practice. Existing constructions, built on zero-knowledge proofs, are complex, application-specific, and…
Crypto x AI, AI x Crypto: A Survey
Sarah Allen, Pranay Anchuri, James Austgen +22
The intersection of crypto x AI is spawning papers, products, online posts, and companies. All the surrounding buzz, though, obscures what exactly has been done, what the opportuni…
B-Privacy: Defining and Enforcing Privacy in Weighted Voting
Samuel Breckenridge, Dani Vilardell, Andrés Fábrega +4
In traditional, one-vote-per-person voting systems, privacy equates with ballot secrecy: voting tallies are published, but individual voters' choices are concealed. Voting systems…
Liquefaction: Privately Liquefying Blockchain Assets
James Austgen, Andrés Fábrega, Mahimna Kelkar +5
Inherent in the world of cryptocurrency systems and their security models is the notion that private keys, and thus assets, are controlled by individuals or individual entities. We…
Props for Machine-Learning Security
Ari Juels, Farinaz Koushanfar
We propose protected pipelines or props for short, a new approach for authenticated, privacy-preserving access to deep-web data for machine learning (ML). By permitting secure use…
PROF: Protected Order Flow in a Profit-Seeking World
Kushal Babel, Nerla Jean-Louis, Yan Ji +5
Users of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications face significant risks from adversarial actions that manipulate the order of transactions to extract value from users. Such actio…
DAO Decentralization: Voting-Bloc Entropy, Bribery, and Dark DAOs
James Austgen, Andrés Fábrega, Sarah Allen +3
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) use smart contracts to foster communities working toward common goals. Existing definitions of decentralization, however-the 'D' in DA…