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Open problems in cross-chain protocols

Cryptography and Security 2021-02-01 v1 Software Engineering

Abstract

Blockchain interoperability is a prominent research field which aims to build bridges between otherwise isolated blockchains. With advances in cryptography, novel protocols are published by academia and applied in different applications and products in the industry. In theory, these innovative protocols provide strong privacy and security guarantees by including formal proofs. However, pure theoretical work often lacks the perspective of real world applications. In this work, we describe a number of hardly researched problems which developers encounter when building cross-chain products.

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@article{arxiv.2101.12412,
  title  = {Open problems in cross-chain protocols},
  author = {Thomas Eizinger and Philipp Hoenisch and Lucas Soriano del Pino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.12412},
  year   = {2021}
}
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