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cs.CR2019★ 4 cited
LazyLedger: A Distributed Data Availability Ledger With Client-Side Smart Contracts
Mustafa Al-Bassam
We propose LazyLedger, a design for distributed ledgers where the blockchain is optimised for solely ordering and guaranteeing the availability of transaction data. Responsibility…
cs.CR2019
Proof-of-Prestige: A Useful Work Reward System for Unverifiable Tasks
Michał Król, Alberto Sonnino, Mustafa Al-Bassam +2
As cryptographic tokens and altcoins are increasingly being built to serve as utility tokens, the notion of useful work consensus protocols, as opposed to number-crunching PoW cons…
cs.CR2019★ 1 cited
Replay Attacks and Defenses Against Cross-shard Consensus in Sharded Distributed Ledgers
Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano, Mustafa Al-Bassam +1
We present a family of replay attacks against sharded distributed ledgers, that target cross-shard consensus protocols, such as the recently proposed Chainspace and Omniledger. The…