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Unconditionally Safe Light Client
Niusha Moshrefi, Peiyao Sheng, Soubhik Deb +2
Blockchain applications often rely on lightweight clients to access and verify on-chain data efficiently without the need to run a resource-intensive full node. These light clients…
STAKESURE: Proof of Stake Mechanisms with Strong Cryptoeconomic Safety
Soubhik Deb, Robert Raynor, Sreeram Kannan
As of July 15, 2023, Ethererum, which is a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain [1] has around 410 Billion USD in total assets on chain (popularly referred to as total-value-locked, TVL…
Travelers: A scalable fair ordering BFT system
Bowen Xue, Sreeram Kannan
Many blockchain platform are subject to maximal value extraction (MEV), and users on the platform are losing money while sending transactions because the transaction order can be m…
SAKSHI: Decentralized AI Platforms
Suma Bhat, Canhui Chen, Zerui Cheng +8
Large AI models (e.g., Dall-E, GPT4) have electrified the scientific, technological and societal landscape through their superhuman capabilities. These services are offered largely…
BigDipper: Sharded Censorship Resistant Data Availability for Leader-Based BFT
Bowen Xue, Samuel Laferriere, Soubhik Deb +1
Leader-based Byzantine-fault-tolerant (BFT) protocols provide low latency and simple communication structure, but they give the leader short-term control over transaction inclusion…
TrustBoost: Boosting Trust among Interoperable Blockchains
Peiyao Sheng, Xuechao Wang, Sreeram Kannan +2
Currently there exist many blockchains with weak trust guarantees, limiting applications and participation. Existing solutions to boost the trust using a stronger blockchain, e.g.,…