Cryptographic Time-Locks and Distributed Sequencing Ensure Fair Transaction Ordering
A distributed sequencing committee uses Threshold Cryptography and Verifiable Delay Functions to cryptographically decouple ordering from the consensus proposer, eliminating MEV extraction.
Federated Distributed Key Generation Enables Robust, Open Threshold Cryptography
FDKG introduces optional, heterogeneous participation to DKG, enabling threshold cryptography for open, large-scale, and asynchronous decentralized networks.
Asynchronous Dynamic VSS Achieves Optimal Resilience in Byzantine Networks
A new Verifiable Asynchronous Echo primitive enables dynamic secret sharing to tolerate $t < n/2$ faults, securing decentralized services under worst-case network conditions.
Weighted VRFs Achieve Scalable Distributed On-Chain Randomness
A new cryptographic primitive, the Weighted Verifiable Unpredictable Function, ensures that validator computation costs remain constant regardless of stake, solving the scalability bottleneck for on-chain randomness in PoS systems.
Zero-Knowledge DKG Enables Cost-Effective Dynamic Threshold Cryptography
Integrating zk-SNARKs into Distributed Key Generation offloads costly on-chain computation, unlocking scalable, dynamic threshold cryptosystems for decentralized applications.
Verifiable Functional Encryption Enables Constant-Cost Decentralized Computation Scaling
A new Verifiable Threshold Functional Encryption primitive achieves constant-size partial decryption, fundamentally solving the linear communication cost bottleneck for large-scale private computation.
Threshold Cryptography Secures Transaction Ordering Eliminating Centralized MEV Risk
A threshold decryption protocol forces block ordering before content revelation, fundamentally solving the MEV centralization problem and ensuring transaction fairness.
Eliminating Threshold Cryptography Latency in Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus
Foundational research eliminates the inherent one-message latency price of threshold cryptography in BFT systems, enabling faster, provably secure on-chain randomness.
Efficient Verifiable Secret Sharing Secures Distributed BFT Systems
A new BFT-integrated Verifiable Secret Sharing scheme radically lowers cryptographic overhead and eliminates adaptive share delay attacks, securing decentralized computation.
