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Carbyne: An Ultra-Lightweight DoS-Resilient Mempool for Bitcoin
Hina Binte Haq, Syed Taha Ali, Asad Salman +2
The increasing adoption of cryptocurrencies has significantly amplified the resource requirements for operating full nodes, creating substantial barriers to entry. Unlike miners, w…
Shades of Finality and Layer 2 Scaling
Bennet Yee, Dawn Song, Patrick McCorry +1
Blockchains combine a distributed append-only log with a virtual machine that defines how log entries are interpreted. By viewing transactions as state transformation functions for…
Sliding Window Challenge Process for Congestion Detection
Ayelet Lotem, Sarah Azouvi, Patrick McCorry +1
Many prominent smart-contract applications such as payment channels, auctions, and voting systems often involve a mechanism in which some party must respond to a challenge or appea…
Formal Modelling and Security Analysis of Bitcoin's Payment Protocol
Paolo Modesti, Siamak F. Shahandashti, Patrick McCorry +1
The Payment Protocol standard BIP70, specifying how payments in Bitcoin are performed by merchants and customers, is supported by the largest payment processors and most widely-use…
Betting on Blockchain Consensus with Fantomette
Sarah Azouvi, Patrick McCorry, Sarah Meiklejohn
Blockchain-based consensus protocols present the opportunity to develop new protocols, due to their novel requirements of open participation and explicit incentivization of partici…
Winning the Caucus Race: Continuous Leader Election via Public Randomness
Sarah Azouvi, Patrick McCorry, Sarah Meiklejohn
Consensus protocols inherently rely on the notion of leader election, in which one or a subset of participants are temporarily elected to authorize and announce the network's lates…