A blockchain ontology for DApps development

L Besancon, CF Da Silva, P Ghodous, JP Gelas - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Decentralized Applications, or DApps, provide distributed trusted applications that use
blockchains. They are often composed of several services, such as transaction scalability …

Reparo: Publicly verifiable layer to repair blockchains

SAK Thyagarajan, A Bhat, B Magri, D Tschudi… - … Conference on Financial …, 2021 - Springer
Although blockchains aim for immutability as their core feature, several instances have
exposed the harms with perfect immutability. The permanence of illicit content inserted in …

Smart contract interactions in Coq

JB Nielsen, B Spitters - International Symposium on Formal Methods, 2019 - Springer
We present a model/executable specification of smart contract execution in Coq. Our
formalization allows for inter-contract communication and generalizes existing work by …

[PDF][PDF] Byzantine Agreement Decomposed: Honest Majority Asynchronous Total-Order Broadcast from Reliable Broadcast.

SH Kamp, JB Nielsen - IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023 - iacr.steepath.eu
It is well-known that Asynchronous Total Order Broadcast (ATOB) requires randomisation
and that at most t< n/3 out of n players are corrupted. This is opposed to synchronous total …

Proof-of-reputation blockchain with nakamoto fallback

L Kleinrock, R Ostrovsky, V Zikas - … on Cryptology in India, Bangalore, India …, 2020 - Springer
Reputation is a major component of trustworthy systems. However, the subjective nature of
reputation, makes it tricky to base a system's security on it. In this work, we describe how to …

Reparo: Publicly verifiable layer to repair blockchains

SAK Thyagarajan, A Bhat, B Magri, D Tschudi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Although blockchains aim for immutability as their core feature, several instances have
exposed the harms with perfect immutability. The permanence of illicit content inserted in …

Modelling of decentralised blockchain applications development

L Besançon, P Ghodous, JP Gelas… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - repositorio.iscte-iul.pt
The development of Decentralised Blockchain Applications (DBA) is becoming more and
more complex. We formalise the development of DBA based on Business Process Modelling …

Byzantine Agreement Decomposed: Honest Majority Asynchronous Atomic Broadcast from Reliable Broadcast

SH Kamp, JB Nielsen - Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2023 - eprint.iacr.org
It is well-known that Atomic Broadcast (AB) in asynchronous networks requires
randomisation and that at most $ t< n/3$ out of $ n $ players are Byzantine corrupted. This is …

[PDF][PDF] A PoR/PoS-Hybrid Blockchain: Proof of Reputation with Nakamoto Fallback.

L Kleinrock, R Ostrovsky, V Zikas - IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2020 - iacr.steepath.eu
Reputation is a major component of trustworthy systems. In this work, we describe how to
leverage reputation to establish a highly scalable and efficient blockchain. In order to avoid …

[PDF][PDF] Towards Scalable & Robust Distributed Computing

SH Kamp - 2025 - pure.au.dk
With their seminal whitepaper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” and its
implementation the author known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto sparked a chain of …