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The paper designs an optimal mechanism for soliciting expensive computational tasks in adversarial blockchain environments, showing that the loss of optimality scales logarithmically with the cost of…
The paper proposes a trustless framework using dual-layer cryptographic commitments to solve the operator-gating problem in blockchain provenance trees, ensuring verifiable user attribution even when…
The paper identifies and demonstrates the existence of a covert sublayer, called the Exclusive Network, within the I2P anonymous network, which allows nodes to host services without being discoverable…
The paper proves that for resources with structural parallelizability (like divisibility and transferability), it is impossible to enforce a linear cost for concentrating influence, demonstrating that…
Intercloud proposes a decentralized economic network that achieves eventual consistency and security using a novel 'chilling-effect consensus' mechanism, eliminating the need for global coordination.
This paper analyzes Bitcoin's new V2 P2P transport protocol, demonstrating that while it fixes known vulnerabilities, attackers can still execute conceptual attacks like message identification via pay…
This paper advances the lightweight blockchain verification protocol, FlyClient, by addressing technical challenges, introducing a new adversary model, and providing practical implementations and opti…
Pepper is a novel, high-bandwidth anonymous broadcast protocol that achieves cryptographic sender anonymity and significantly improves messaging throughput compared to existing state-of-the-art system…
This empirical study of Pearl's cuPOW protocol demonstrates that the network's Proof-of-Useful-Work mechanism generates zero useful AI computation, instead causing economic harm and displacing legitim…
The paper proposes a hash-based commit-reveal alternative to minimize the infrastructural overhead associated with adopting large post-quantum signature schemes in blockchain transactions.
The paper proposes Proof of Useful Attestation (PoUA), a consensus mechanism that weights validator vote power not just by staked capital, but also by a reputation score earned through performing vali…
Bowen Cai, Weiheng Bai, Youshui Lu, Haoran Xu +3 more
GenDetect introduces a novel framework to rapidly generalize detection rules from single observed DeFi exploits, significantly improving resilience against subsequent, similar 'Imitative Attack Cascad…
The paper introduces $I$-$(OT)^2$, a novel base 1-out-of-2 Oblivious Transfer (OT) protocol designed to minimize computation and interaction for resource-constrained IoT devices.
This paper provides a comprehensive, system-level taxonomy for designing quantum-resistant network architectures, moving beyond simple protocol substitutions to address key distribution and management…
This paper provides the first unified, security-focused survey that rigorously maps Layer-2 (L2) blockchain architecture to its underlying cryptographic security assumptions.
This study analyzed I2P's routing topology and found no significant evidence that peer selection is influenced by geographic location, suggesting highly random global mixing.
The paper introduces probabilistic swaps, a new cryptographic primitive that extends traditional atomic swaps to enable trustless, randomized exchanges with verifiable, fixed probabilities.
LiteAtt introduces a verifier-less, Peer-to-Peer Self-Attestation (P2P-SA) framework for modern IoT MCUs, enabling mutual authentication and firmware attestation directly within the connection handsha…
ORCHID introduces a novel, bio-inspired consensus protocol that uses quantum-noisy phase oscillators and a binding threshold derived from neuroscience to achieve scalable, high-fidelity consensus in d…
The paper introduces PASS, a Provenanced Access Subaccount System that replaces traditional key-based control with verifiable provenance-based control for blockchain wallets, enabling secure, multi-ac…