Aurora: Transparent succinct arguments for R1CS

E Ben-Sasson, A Chiesa, M Riabzev… - Advances in Cryptology …, 2019 - Springer
We design, implement, and evaluate a zero knowledge succinct non-interactive argument
(SNARG) for Rank-1 Constraint Satisfaction (R1CS), a widely-deployed NP language …

Poseidon: A new hash function for {Zero-Knowledge} proof systems

L Grassi, D Khovratovich, C Rechberger… - 30th USENIX Security …, 2021 - usenix.org
The area of practical computational integrity proof systems, like SNARKs, STARKs,
Bulletproofs, is seeing a very dynamic development with several constructions having …

Batching techniques for accumulators with applications to IOPs and stateless blockchains

D Boneh, B Bünz, B Fisch - Advances in Cryptology–CRYPTO 2019: 39th …, 2019 - Springer
We present batching techniques for cryptographic accumulators and vector commitments in
groups of unknown order. Our techniques are tailored for distributed settings where no …

[PDF][PDF] Chainlink 2.0: Next steps in the evolution of decentralized oracle networks

L Breidenbach, C Cachin, B Chan, A Coventry… - Chainlink …, 2021 - files.elfsightcdn.com
In this whitepaper, we articulate a vision for the evolution of Chainlink beyond its initial
conception in the original Chainlink whitepaper. We foresee an increasingly expansive role …

Gtxchain: A secure iot smart blockchain architecture based on graph neural network

J Cai, W Liang, X Li, K Li, Z Gui… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the expansion of scale, the Internet of Things (IoT) suffers more and more security
threats, and vulnerability and sensitivity to attacks are also increasing. As a distributed and …

Scalable zero knowledge with no trusted setup

E Ben-Sasson, I Bentov, Y Horesh… - Advances in Cryptology …, 2019 - Springer
One of the approaches to constructing zero knowledge (ZK) arguments relies on “PCP
techniques” that date back to influential works from the early 1990's Babai et al., Arora et al …

Spartan: Efficient and general-purpose zkSNARKs without trusted setup

S Setty - Annual International Cryptology Conference, 2020 - Springer
This paper introduces Spartan, a new family of zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive
arguments of knowledge (zkSNARKs) for the rank-1 constraint satisfiability (R1CS), an NP …

Themis: Fast, strong order-fairness in byzantine consensus

M Kelkar, S Deb, S Long, A Juels… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We introduce Themis, a scheme for introducing fair ordering of transactions into
(permissioned) Byzantine consensus protocols with at most ƒ faulty nodes among n≥ 4ƒ+ 1 …

Fractal: Post-quantum and Transparent Recursive Proofs from Holography

A Chiesa, D Ojha, N Spooner - … on the Theory and Applications of …, 2020 - Springer
We present a new methodology to efficiently realize recursive composition of succinct non-
interactive arguments of knowledge (SNARKs). Prior to this work, the only known …

Zkcnn: Zero knowledge proofs for convolutional neural network predictions and accuracy

T Liu, X Xie, Y Zhang - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Deep learning techniques with neural networks are developing prominently in recent years
and have been deployed in numerous applications. Despite their great success, in many …