3 papers
cs.CR2026
Slow and Steady: Preventing MEV with Verifiable Delays
Zeta Avarikioti, Dimitris Karakostas, Karl Kreder +1
Our work presents a defense mechanism against Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) opportunities in distributed ledgers. The mechanism relies on the idea of enforcing a verifiable delay…
cs.GT2025
Optimal Reward Allocation via Proportional Splitting
Lukas Aumayr, Zeta Avarikioti, Dimitris Karakostas +2
Following the publication of Bitcoin's arguably most famous attack, selfish mining, various works have introduced mechanisms to enhance blockchain systems' game-theoretic resilienc…
cs.CR2023
POEM: Proof of Entropy Minima
Karl Kreder, Shreekara Shastry
Nakamoto consensus has been incredibly influential in enabling robust blockchain systems, and one of its components is the so-called heaviest chain rule (HCR). Within this rule, th…