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Decentralized applications (DApps), which are innovative blockchain-powered software systems designed to serve as the fundamental building blocks for the next generation of Internet services, have witnessed exponential growth in recent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Lipeng He

The recent proliferation of blockchain-based decentralized applications (DApp) has catalyzed transformative advancements in distributed systems, with extensive deployments observed across financial, entertainment, media, and cybersecurity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Haoyang Sun , Yishun Wang , Xiaoqi Li

As popular tools for spreading spam and malware, Sybils (or fake accounts) pose a serious threat to online communities such as Online Social Networks (OSNs). Today, sophisticated attackers are creating realistic Sybils that effectively…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Gang Wang , Manish Mohanlal , Christo Wilson , Xiao Wang , Miriam Metzger , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

This note and agenda serve as a cause for thought for scholars interested in researching Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), addressing both the opportunities and challenges posed by this phenomenon. It covers key aspects of data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Christian Ziegler , Quinn DuPont

This paper reviews the Sybil attack in social networks, which has the potential to compromise the whole distributed network. In the Sybil attack, the malicious user claims multiple identities to compromise the network. Sybil attacks can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Rupesh Gunturu

Peer-discovery protocols within P2P networks are often vulnerable: because creating network identities is essentially free, adversaries can eclipse honest nodes or partition the overlay. This threat is especially acute for blockchains,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Kaya Alpturer , Constantine Doumanidis , Aviv Zohar

Sybil accounts are fake identities created to unfairly increase the power or resources of a single malicious user. Researchers have long known about the existence of Sybil accounts in online communities such as file-sharing systems, but…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Zhi Yang , Christo Wilson , Xiao Wang , Tingting Gao , Ben Y. Zhao , Yafei Dai

In an increasingly digitized world, the secure management and trade of digital assets have become a pressing issue. This project aims to address this challenge by developing a decentralized application (dApp) that leverages blockchain…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Piyush Batra , Gagan Raj Singh , Ritik Gandhi

Decentralized Applications (DApps) have seen widespread use in the recent past driving the world towards a new decentralized version of the web known as Web3.0. DApp-supported blockchains like Ethereum have largely been responsible for this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Deepal Tennakoon , Vincent Gramoli

Data leakage and theft from databases is a dangerous threat to organizations. Data Security and Data Privacy protection systems (DSDP) monitor data access and usage to identify leakage or suspicious activities that should be investigated.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Hagit Grushka-Cohen , Oded Sofer , Ofer Biller , Michael Dymshits , Lior Rokach , Bracha Shapira

With the rise of cryptocurrencies, many new applications built on decentralized blockchains have emerged. Blockchains are full-stack distributed systems where multiple sub-systems interact. While many deployed blockchains and decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ivan Homoliak

Blockchain technology has been envisaged to commence an era of decentralised applications and services (DApps) without the need for a trusted intermediary. Such DApps open a marketplace in which services are delivered to end-users by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Nguyen Truong , Gyu Myoung Lee , Kai Sun , Florian Guitton , Yike Guo

The Sybil attack plagues all peer-to-peer systems, and modern open distributed ledgers employ a number of tactics to prevent it from proof of work, or other resources such as space, stake or memory, to traditional admission control in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Alberto Sonnino , George Danezis

Ethereum contracts can be designed to function as fully decentralized applications called DAPPs. Many DAPPs have already been fielded, including an online marketplace, a role playing game, a prediction market, and an Internet service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-17 George Bissias , Brian Levine , Nikunj Kapadia

Decentralized reputation systems are emerging as promising mechanisms to enhance the effectiveness of token-based economies. Unlike traditional monetary incentives, these systems reward participants based on the actual value of their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Bulat Nasrulin , Georgy Ishmaev , Johan Pouwelse

Blockchain technology has attracted tremendous attention in both academia and capital market. However, overwhelming speculations on thousands of available cryptocurrencies and numerous initial coin offering (ICO) scams have also brought…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Wei Cai , Zehua Wang , Jason B. Ernst , Zhen Hong , Chen Feng , Victor C. M. Leung

As the number of Anthropogenic Space Objects (ASOs) grows, there is an urgent need to ensure space safety, security, and sustainability (S3) for long-term space use. Currently, no globally effective method can quantify the safety, security,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Anirban Chowdhury , Yasir Latif , Moriba K. Jah , Samya Bagchi

Ad hoc networks is vulnerable to numerous number of attacks due to its infrastructure-less nature, one of these attacks is the Sybil attack. Sybil attack is a severe attack on vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) in which the intruder…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Salam Hamdan , Amjad Hudaib , Arafat Awajan

We explore the burgeoning field of GameFi through a detailed network analysis of The Sandbox, a prominent decentralized application (dApp) in this domain. Utilizing the bow-tie model, we map out transaction data within The Sandbox,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Fernando Spadea , Oshani Seneviratne

Being a volunteer-run, distributed anonymity network, Tor is vulnerable to Sybil attacks. Little is known about real-world Sybils in the Tor network, and we lack practical tools and methods to expose Sybil attacks. In this work, we develop…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Philipp Winter , Roya Ensafi , Karsten Loesing , Nick Feamster