Asynchronous BFT Achieves Practical Performance through Designated Leaders
Alea-BFT combines designated leader efficiency with asynchronous resilience, creating a simple, highly performant BFT protocol that eliminates network timing assumptions.
Proof of Quantum Work Achieves Quantum-Safe, Energy-Efficient Blockchain Architecture
Proof of Quantum Work leverages quantum supremacy to secure the ledger, solving classical PoW's energy crisis and quantum-proofing the consensus layer.
Zero-Knowledge Proof of Personhood Secures Decentralized Identity and Sybil Resistance
This research introduces Zero-Knowledge Proof of Personhood (ZK-PoP) to cryptographically enforce unique identity without compromising user privacy, solving the Sybil resistance challenge.
Verifiable Shuffle Function Ensures Fair Transaction Ordering and MEV Neutrality
A Verifiable Shuffle Function cryptographically enforces random transaction ordering, fundamentally neutralizing MEV and securing decentralized sequencing.
Black-Box Commit-and-Prove SNARKs Unlock Verifiable Computation Scaling
Artemis, a new black-box SNARK construction, modularly solves the commitment verification bottleneck, enabling practical, large-scale zero-knowledge machine learning.
Concurrent DAG Block Production Enables Frontrunning via Finalization Ordering Manipulation
Research exposes how leaderless DAG consensus protocols, designed for throughput, introduce a new, exploitable frontrunning vector during transaction finalization.
Decoupling Work and Compensation Enables Resource Exhaustion Attacks on Blockchains
New attack vectors exploit Turing-complete transaction logic to decouple validator work from fee compensation, compromising blockchain liveness.
Coin Holder Checkpointing Secures Proof-of-Stake History Permanently
A new checkpointing primitive leverages the network's total economic weight to eliminate long-range attacks, securing PoS history trustlessly.
Communication Lower Bounds Redefine Broadcast Efficiency in Dishonest-Majority Systems
New theoretical bounds and a sub-quadratic protocol fundamentally redefine the communication cost for Byzantine broadcast in dishonest-majority networks.
Graded Broadcast Unlocks Optimal Latency for Asynchronous BFT Consensus
Falcon BFT introduces Graded Broadcast, bypassing the agreement stage to resolve high latency and instability in asynchronous consensus protocols.
