Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol

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Source : https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/889.pdf

Extract from Abstract

We  present  “Ouroboros”,  the  first  blockchain  protocol  based  on proof  of  stake with  rigorous  security  guarantees.   We  establish  security  properties  for  the  protocol  comparable  to those achieved by the bitcoin blockchain protocol.  As the protocol provides a “proof of stake” blockchain discipline, it offers qualitative efficiency advantages over blockchains based on proof of physical resources (e.g., proof of work).  We also present a novel reward mechanism for incentivizing Proof of Stake protocols and we prove that, given this mechanism, honest behavior is an approximate Nash equilibrium, thus neutralizing attacks such as selfish mining.  We also present initial evidence of the practicality of our protocol in real world settings by providing experimental results on transaction confirmation and processing.

Author Details

Aggelos Kiayias at university of Edinburgh and IOHK,akiayias@inf.ed.ac.uk

Alexander Russell ,University of Connecticut,acr@cse.uconn.ed

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