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08/08/2023
The Vulnerable Nature of Decentralized Governance in DeFi
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platforms are often governed by Decentraliz...
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03/16/2023
Security of Blockchains at Capacity
Given a network of nodes with certain communication and computation capa...
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11/03/2022
Validated Byzantine Asynchronous Multidimensional Approximate Agreement
Consider an asynchronous system where each node begins with some point i...
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01/22/2022
Sliding Window Challenge Process for Congestion Detection
Many prominent smart-contract applications such as payment channels, auc...
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08/19/2020
Survey on Cryptocurrency Networking: Context, State-of-the-Art, Challenges
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are realized using distributed systems ...
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07/18/2020
Optimizing Off-Chain Payment Networks in Cryptocurrencies
Off-chain transaction channels represent one of the leading techniques t...
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06/15/2020
Flood Loot: A Systemic Attack On The Lightning Network
The Lightning Network promises to alleviate Bitcoin's known scalability ...
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02/18/2020
Pricing ASICs for Cryptocurrency Mining
Cryptocurrencies that are based on Proof-of-Work rely on special purpose...
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02/16/2020
Congestion Attacks in Payment Channel Networks
Payment channel networks provide a fast and scalable solution to relay f...
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09/15/2019
Hijacking Routes in Payment Channel Networks: A Predictability Tradeoff
Off-chain transaction networks can mitigate the scalability issues of to...
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10/12/2018
How to Pick Your Friends - A Game Theoretic Approach to P2P Overlay Construction
A major limitation of open P2P networks is the lack of strong identities...
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03/15/2018
Database Perspectives on Blockchains
Modern blockchain systems are a fresh look at the paradigm of distribute...
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12/29/2017
How to Charge Lightning
Off-chain transaction channels represent one of the leading techniques t...
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09/26/2017
Redesigning Bitcoin's fee market
The security of the Bitcoin system is based on having a large amount of ...
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06/24/2016