61 citations · 87 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for
8 papers
Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges
Philip Daian, Steven Goldfeder, Tyler Kell +5
Blockchains, and specifically smart contracts, have promised to create fair and transparent trading ecosystems. Unfortunately, we show that this promise has not been met. We docume…
Instantaneous Decentralized Poker
Iddo Bentov, Ranjit Kumaresan, Andrew Miller
We present efficient protocols for amortized secure multiparty computation with penalties and secure cash distribution, of which poker is a prime example. Our protocols have an ini…
Sprites and State Channels: Payment Networks that Go Faster than Lightning
Andrew Miller, Iddo Bentov, Ranjit Kumaresan +2
Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies, as deployed today, cannot scale for wide-spread use. A leading approach for cryptocurrency scaling is a smart contrac…
Decentralized Prediction Market without Arbiters
Iddo Bentov, Alex Mizrahi, Meni Rosenfeld
We consider a prediction market in which all aspects are controlled by market forces, in particular the correct outcomes of events are decided by the market itself rather than by t…
Zero-Collateral Lotteries in Bitcoin and Ethereum
Andrew Miller, Iddo Bentov
We present cryptocurrency-based lottery protocols that do not require any collateral from the players. Previous protocols for this task required a security deposit that is …
Bitcoin Beacon
Iddo Bentov, Ariel Gabizon, David Zuckerman
We examine a protocol that outputs unpredictable and publicly verifiable randomness, meaning that the output is unknown at the time that sta…