3 papers
cs.GT2026
The Economic Security of Exponential EIP-1559
Ben Berger, Edward W. Felten, Robin Fritsch
We consider the problem of parameter selection for EIP-1559, a widely used gas pricing mechanism for blockchains. As opposed to previous work, we aim to achieve economic security,…
cs.GT2025
Economic Censorship Games in Fraud Proofs
Ben Berger, Edward W. Felten, Akaki Mamageishvili +1
Optimistic rollups rely on fraud proofs -- interactive protocols executed on Ethereum to resolve conflicting claims about the rollup's state -- to scale Ethereum securely. To mitig…
cs.CR2024
BoLD: Fast and Cheap Dispute Resolution
Mario M. Alvarez, Henry Arneson, Ben Berger +12
BoLD is a new dispute resolution protocol that is designed to replace the originally deployed Arbitrum dispute resolution protocol. Unlike that protocol, BoLD is resistant to delay…