Adaptive Trust Consensus for Blockchain IoT: Comparing RL, DRL, and MARL Against Naive, Collusive, Adaptive, Byzantine, and Sleeper Attacks

Soham Padia, Dhananjay Vaidya, Ramchandra Mangrulkar

Securing blockchain-enabled IoT networks against sophisticated adversarial attacks remains a critical challenge. This paper presents a trust-based delegated consensus framework int…