3 papers
cs.DC2026
Accountable Transaction Inclusion Lists: Enhancing Ethereum's Censorship Resistance
Patrick Spiesberger, Hannes Hartenstein
In Ethereum, transaction inclusion is rarely in question; what matters is the delay until inclusion. Currently, block builders could exercise censorship across consecutive blocks,…
cs.DC2026
Why Ethereum Needs Fairness Mechanisms that Do Not Depend on Participants' Altruism
Patrick Spiesberger, Nils Henrik Beyer, Hannes Hartenstein
Ethereum's ideal of censorship resistance, together with related fairness properties, is undermined in practice, motivating fairness mechanisms that aim to restore these properties…
cs.CR2025
Model Checking the Security of the Lightning Network
Matthias Grundmann, Hannes Hartenstein
Payment channel networks are an approach to improve the scalability of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies. The Lightning Network is a payment channel network built for Bitcoin that…