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Modern blockchains support a variety of distributed applications beyond cryptocurrencies, including smart contracts -- which let users execute arbitrary code in a distributed and decentralized fashion. Regardless of their intended…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Orestis Alpos , Christian Cachin , Giorgia Azzurra Marson , Luca Zanolini

One fundamental limitation of blockchain-based smart contracts is that they execute in a closed environment. Thus, they only have access to data and functionality that is already on the blockchain, or is fed into the blockchain. Any…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Shayan Eskandari , Mehdi Salehi , Wanyun Catherine Gu , Jeremy Clark

Blockchain has been praised for its capacity to hold data in a decentralized and tamper-proof way. It also supports the execution of code through blockchain's smart contracts, adding automation of actions to the network with high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Nicolas Six , Claudia Negri Ribalta , Nicolas Herbaut , Camille Salinesi

Wibson is a blockchain-based, decentralized data marketplace that provides individuals a way to securely and anonymously sell information in a trusted environment. The combination of the Wibson token and blockchain-enabled smart contracts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Daniel Fernandez , Ariel Futoransky , Gustavo Ajzenman , Matias Travizano , Carlos Sarraute

Security and trust are the most important factors in online transaction, this paper introduces TSET a Token based Secure Electronic Transaction which is an improvement over the existing SET, Secure Electronic Transaction protocol. We take…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Rajdeep Borgohain , Moirangthem Tiken Singh , Chandrakant Sakharwade , Sugata Sanyal

We proposed a framework of quantum-enhanced logic-based blockchain, which improves the efficiency and power of quantum-secured blockchain. The efficiency is improved by using a new quantum honest-success Byzantine agreement protocol to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Xin Sun , Quanlong Wang , Piotr Kulicki , Xishun Zhao

The global financial landscape is experiencing significant transformation driven by technological advancements and evolving market dynamics. Moreover, blockchain technology has become a pivotal platform with widespread applications,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Maruf Ahmed Mridul , Kaiyang Chang , Aparna Gupta , Oshani Seneviratne

Smart Contracts (SCs) are programs stored in a Blockchain to ensure agreements between two or more parties. Due to the unchangeable essence of Blockchain, failures or errors in SCs become perpetual once published. The reliability of SCs is…

As a disruptive technology that originates from cryptocurrency, blockchain provides a trusted platform to facilitate industrial IoT (IIoT) applications. However, implementing a blockchain platform in IIoT scenarios confronts various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Qing Yang , Hao Wang , Xiaoxiao Wu , Taotao Wang , Shengli Zhang , Naijin Liu

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) is facing significant scalability and security challenges. On the one hand, IoT devices are "weak" and need external assistance. Edge computing provides a promising direction addressing the deficiency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Jianli Pan , Jianyu Wang , Austin Hester , Ismail Alqerm , Yuanni Liu , Ying Zhao

Smart contracting protocols promise to regulate the transfer of cryptocurrency amongst participants in a trustless manner. A safe smart contract implementation should ensure that each participant can always append a contract transaction to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-16 James Chiang

Raziel combines secure multi-party computation and proof-carrying code to provide privacy, correctness and verifiability guarantees for smart contracts on blockchains. Effectively solving DAO and Gyges attacks, this paper describes an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-17 David Cerezo Sánchez

Ethereum smart contracts are distributed programs running on top of the Ethereum blockchain. Since program flaws can cause significant monetary losses and can hardly be fixed due to the immutable nature of the blockchain, there is a strong…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Clara Schneidewind , Markus Scherer , Matteo Maffei

Blockchain technology (BT) Ethereum Smart Contracts allows programmable transactions that involve the transfer of monetary assets among peers on a BT network independent of a central authorizing agency. Ethereum Smart Contracts are programs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Noama Fatima Samreen , Manar H. Alalfi

The industrial market continuously needs reliable solutions to secure autonomous systems. Especially as these systems become more complex and interconnected, reliable security solutions are becoming increasingly important. One promising…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Önder Gürcan

Cross-Blockchain communication has gained traction due to the increasing fragmentation of blockchain networks and scalability solutions such as side-chaining and sharding. With SmartSync, we propose a novel concept for cross-blockchain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Martin Westerkamp , Axel Küpper

Formally reasoning about functional programs is supposed to be straightforward and elegant, however, it is not typically done as a matter of course. Reasoning in a proof assistant requires "reimplementing" the code in those tools, which is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Laila El-Beheiry , Giselle Reis , Ammar Karkour

Blockchain and Distributed ledger Technologies are increasingly becoming key enablers for vital innovation in financial services, manufacturing, government and other industries. One of the biggest challenges though is the level of support…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Marcelle von Wendland

Blockchains and smart contracts are an emerging, promising technology, that has received considerable attention. We use the blockchain technology, and in particular Ethereum, to implement a large-scale event-based Internet of Things (IoT)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Nikos Fotiou , Iakovos Pittaras , Vasilios A. Siris , Spyros Voulgaris , George C. Polyzos

UTXO-based smart contract platforms face an efficiency bottleneck, in that any transaction sent to a contract must specify the entire updated contract state. This requirement becomes particularly burdensome when the contract state contains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Massimo Bartoletti , Riccardo Marchesin , Roberto Zunino