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The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology has caused a powerful transition in the cyber threat landscape. As a result, organisations have had to find new ways to better manage the risks associated with their infrastructure.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Kealan Dunnett , Shantanu Pal , Zahra Jadidi

With the recent rise of cryptocurrencies' popularity, the security and management of crypto-tokens have become critical. We have witnessed many attacks on users and providers, which have resulted in significant financial losses. To remedy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Ivan Homoliak , Dominik Breitenbacher , Ondrej Hujnak , Pieter Hartel , Alexander Binder , Pawel Szalachowski

Blockchain technology ensures secure and trustworthy data flow between multiple participants on the chain, but interoperability of on-chain and off-chain data has always been a difficult problem that needs to be solved. To solve the problem…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Xueying Zeng , Youquan Xian , Chunpei Li , Zhengdong Hu , Aoxiang Zhou , Peng Liu

Decentralized Finance (DeFi), a blockchain powered peer-to-peer financial system, is mushrooming. Two years ago the total value locked in DeFi systems was approximately 700m USD, now, as of April 2022, it stands at around 150bn USD. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Sam M. Werner , Daniel Perez , Lewis Gudgeon , Ariah Klages-Mundt , Dominik Harz , William J. Knottenbelt

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a system of financial products and services built and delivered through smart contracts on various blockchains. In the past year, DeFi has gained popularity and market capitalization. However, it has also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Arianna Trozze , Bennett Kleinberg , Toby Davies

Within just four years, the blockchain-based Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem has accumulated a peak total value locked (TVL) of more than 253 billion USD. This surge in DeFi's popularity has, unfortunately, been accompanied by many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Liyi Zhou , Xihan Xiong , Jens Ernstberger , Stefanos Chaliasos , Zhipeng Wang , Ye Wang , Kaihua Qin , Roger Wattenhofer , Dawn Song , Arthur Gervais

While the smart surveillance system enhanced by the Internet of Things (IoT) technology becomes an essential part of Smart Cities, it also brings new concerns in security of the data. Compared to the traditional surveillance systems that is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Deeraj Nagothu , Ronghua Xu , Seyed Yahya Nikouei , Yu Chen

Blockchain offers an innovative approach to storing information, executing transactions, performing functions, and establishing trust in an open environment. Many consider blockchain as a technology breakthrough for cryptography and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Rui Zhang , Rui Xue , Ling Liu

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols are crypto projects developed on the blockchain to manage digital assets. Attacks on DeFi have been frequent and have resulted in losses exceeding $80 billion. Current tools detect and locate possible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiaoqi Li , Wenkai Li , Zhiquan Liu , Yuqing Zhang , Yingjie Mao

Since the inception of permissionless blockchains with Bitcoin in 2008, it became apparent that their most well-suited use case is related to making the financial system and its advantages available to everyone seamlessly without depending…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-06-16 Georgios Palaiokrassas , Sandro Scherrers , Iason Ofeidis , Leandros Tassiulas

As an emerging service framework built by combining cryptography, P2P network, consensus mechanism and innovative contract technology, blockchain has been widely used in digital finance, data sharing, message traceability and electronic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Wenwen Zhou , Dongyang Lyu , Xiaoqi Li

This research study focuses primarily on Block-Chain-based voting systems, which facilitate participation in and administration of voting for voters, candidates, and officials. Because we used Block-Chain in the backend, which enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jagbeer Singh , Utkarsh Rastogi , Yash Goel , Brijesh Gupta , Utkarsh

This paper describes a decentralized low-cost system designed to reinforce personal security in big events in case of emergency. The proposal consists of using smart contracts supported by blockchain in the management of events. An…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Alexandra Rivero-García , Iván Santos-González , Candelaria Hernández-Goya , Pino Caballero-Gil

In blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, transactions represent the primary mechanism that the external world can use to trigger a change of blockchain state. Transactions serve as key sources of evidence and play a vital role in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Chao Li , Balaji Palanisamy

Blockchain was always associated with Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and digital asset trading. However, its benefits are far beyond that. It supports technologies like the Internet-of-Things (IoT) to pave the way for futuristic smart…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Maad Ebrahim , Abdelhakim Hafid , Etienne Elie

Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart home applications are rising in popularity. However, this trend attracts malicious activity, which causes cost-efficient security to be in high demand. This paper proposes a low-end design that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Marc Jayson Baucas , Stephen Andrew Gadsden , Petros Spachos

The Internet of Things (IoT) connected by Software Defined Networking (SDN) promises to bring great benefits to cyber-physical systems. However, the increased attack surface offered by the growing number of connected vulnerable devices and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Jiejun Hu , Martin Reed , Mays Al-Naday , Nikolaos Thomos

The decentralized and trustless nature of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology leads to a shift in the digital world. The possibility to execute small programs, called smart contracts, on cryptocurrencies like Ethereum opened doors to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Hendrik Amler , Lisa Eckey , Sebastian Faust , Marcel Kaiser , Philipp Sandner , Benjamin Schlosser

Integrating blockchain technology with the Internet of Things offers transformative possibilities for enhancing network security and privacy in the contemporary digital landscape, where interconnected devices and expansive networks are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ali Mohammadi Ruzbahani

We propose a new coded blockchain scheme suitable for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) network. In contrast to existing works for coded blockchains, especially blockchain-of-things, the proposed scheme is more realistic, practical, and secure…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Amirhossein Taherpour , Xiaodong Wang