Incentives in Ethereum's Hybrid Casper Protocol

March 11, 2019 Β· Declared Dead Β· πŸ› International Conference on Blockchain

πŸ‘» CAUSE OF DEATH: Ghosted
No code link whatsoever

"No code URL or promise found in abstract"

Evidence collected by the PWNC Scanner

Authors Vitalik Buterin, Daniel Reijsbergen, Stefanos Leonardos, Georgios Piliouras arXiv ID 1903.04205 Category cs.CR: Cryptography & Security Cross-listed cs.DC, cs.GT Citations 98 Venue International Conference on Blockchain Last Checked 4 months ago
Abstract
We present an overview of hybrid Casper the Friendly Finality Gadget (FFG): a Proof-of-Stake checkpointing protocol overlaid onto Ethereum's Proof-of-Work blockchain. We describe its core functionalities and reward scheme, and explore its properties. Our findings indicate that Casper's implemented incentives mechanism ensures liveness, while providing safety guarantees that improve over standard Proof-of-Work protocols. Based on a minimal-impact implementation of the protocol as a smart contract on the blockchain, we discuss additional issues related to parametrisation, funding, throughput and network overhead and detect potential limitations.
Community shame:
Not yet rated
Community Contributions

Found the code? Know the venue? Think something is wrong? Let us know!

πŸ“œ Similar Papers

In the same crypt β€” Cryptography & Security

Died the same way β€” πŸ‘» Ghosted