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08/04/2023
BlockChain I/O: Enabling Cross-Chain Commerce
By enabling users to safely transfer digital tokens without trusted inte...
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06/16/2023
CroCoDai: A Stablecoin for Cross-Chain Commerce
Decentralized Finance (DeFi), in which digital assets are exchanged with...
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06/16/2023
PIEChain – A Practical Blockchain Interoperability Framework
A plethora of different blockchain platforms have emerged in recent year...
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12/14/2022
Optimality Despite Chaos in Fee Markets
Transaction fee markets are essential components of blockchain economies...
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10/21/2022
TAP: Transparent and Privacy-Preserving Data Services
Users today expect more security from services that handle their data. I...
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04/30/2022
Protecting the Integrity of IoT Sensor Data and Firmware With A Feather-Light Blockchain Infrastructure
Smart cities deploy large numbers of sensors and collect a tremendous am...
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02/09/2022
Securing Smart Grids Through an Incentive Mechanism for Blockchain-Based Data Sharing
Smart grids leverage the data collected from smart meters to make import...
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10/10/2021
Transaction Fees on a Honeymoon: Ethereum's EIP-1559 One Month Later
Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559 was recently implemented to tra...
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04/16/2021
Transparent Electricity Pricing with Privacy
Smart grids leverage data from smart meters to improve operations manage...
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02/21/2021
Dynamical Analysis of the EIP-1559 Ethereum Fee Market
Participation in permissionless blockchains results in competition over ...
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07/05/2020
Decentralized Lightweight Detection of Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin Clients
Clients of permissionless blockchain systems, like Bitcoin, rely on an u...
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06/02/2020
ProPoS: A Probabilistic Proof-of-Stake Protocol
We present ProPoS, a Proof-of-Stake protocol dedicated, but not limited,...
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03/13/2020
On Exploiting Transaction Concurrency To Speed Up Blockchains
Consensus protocols are currently the bottlenecks that prevent blockchai...
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10/22/2019
The Security Reference Architecture for Blockchains: Towards a Standardized Model for Studying Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Defenses
Due to their specific features, such as decentralization and immutabilit...
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08/30/2019
An Empirical Study into the Success of Listed Smart Contracts in Ethereum
Since it takes time and effort to put a new product or service on the ma...
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06/15/2019
PREStO: A Systematic Framework for Blockchain Consensus Protocols
The rapid evolution of the blockchain community has brought together sta...
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05/23/2019
StrongChain: Transparent and Collaborative Proof-of-Work Consensus
Bitcoin is the most successful cryptocurrency so far. This is mainly due...
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03/11/2019
Weighted Voting on the Blockchain: Improving Consensus in Proof of Stake Protocols
Proof of Stake (PoS) protocols rely on voting mechanisms to reach consen...
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03/11/2019
Incentives in Ethereum's Hybrid Casper Protocol
We present an overview of hybrid Casper the Friendly Finality Gadget (FF...
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06/12/2018