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Low-latency, Scalable, DeFi with Zef

Cryptography and Security 2022-01-14 v1
Authors: Mathieu Baudet , Alberto Sonnino , Michal Krol
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Abstract

Zef was recently proposed to extend the low-latency, Byzantine-Fault Tolerant (BFT) payment protocol FastPay with anonymous coins. This report explores further extensions of FastPay and Lef beyond payments. We start by off-chain assets (e.g. NFTs). We introduce the idea of on-demand BFT consensus instances throught the example of atomic swaps between account owners.

Keywords

byzantine fault tolerance

Cite

@article{arxiv.2201.05073,
  title  = {Low-latency, Scalable, DeFi with Zef},
  author = {Mathieu Baudet and Alberto Sonnino and Michal Krol},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.05073},
  year   = {2022}
}

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