The Scalability of Trustless Trust
Cryptography and Security
2018-01-30 v1 Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Multiagent Systems
Abstract
Permission-less blockchains can realise trustless trust, albeit at the cost of limiting the complexity of computation tasks. To explain the implications for scalability, we have implemented a trust model for smart contracts, described as agents in an open multi-agent system. Agent intentions are not necessarily known and autonomous agents have to be able to make decisions under risk. The ramifications of these general conditions for scalability are analysed for Ethereum and then generalised to other current and future platforms.
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@article{arxiv.1801.09535,
title = {The Scalability of Trustless Trust},
author = {Dominik Harz and Magnus Boman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.09535},
year = {2018}
}
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16 pages, 2 figures