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most citedEnhancing Accountability and Trust in Distributed Ledgers

19 citations · 31 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.DC20223 cited

Invited Paper: Fault-tolerant and Expressive Cross-Chain Swaps

Yingjie Xue, Di Jin, Maurice Herlihy

Cross-chain swaps enable exchange of different assets that reside on different blockchains. Several protocols have been proposed for atomic cross-chain swaps. However, those protoc…

cs.CR20215 cited

Hedging Against Sore Loser Attacks in Cross-Chain Transactions

Yingjie Xue, Maurice Herlihy

A *sore loser attack* in cross-blockchain commerce rises when one party decides to halt participation partway through, leaving other parties' assets locked up for a long duration.…

cs.NI20211 cited

Cryptoasset Competition and Market Concentration in the Presence of Network Effects

Konstantinos Stylianou, Leonhard Spiegelberg, Maurice Herlihy +1

When network products and services become more valuable as their userbase grows (network effects), this tendency can become a major determinant of how they compete with each other…

cs.DC2019

Clairvoyant State Machine Replication

Rida Bazzi, Maurice Herlihy

We propose a new protocol for the generalized consensus problem in asynchronous systems subject to Byzantine server failures. The protocol solves the consensus problem in a setting…

cs.DC2019

Cross-chain Deals and Adversarial Commerce

Maurice Herlihy, Barbara Liskov, Liuba Shrira

Modern distributed data management systems face a new challenge: how can autonomous, mutually-distrusting parties cooperate safely and effectively? Addressing this challenge brings…

cs.DC2019

An Empirical Study of Speculative Concurrency in Ethereum Smart Contracts

Vikram Saraph, Maurice Herlihy

We use historical data to estimate the potential benefit of speculative techniques for executing Ethereum smart contracts in parallel. We replay transaction traces of sampled block…