Snapshot chain consensus reading list

Creator

Alex North

Created

Mar 9, 2023 1:55 AM

Reading list of papers relevant to the concept of using a parallel chain of snapshots for finality and external verification of consensus in PoS networks.

From Joachim Neu (the first few are most relevant to us)

• Ebb-and-Flow Protocols: A Resolution of the Availability-Finality Dilemma 🎯 Joachim Neu, Ertem Nusret Tas, David Tse
• talk
• The Availability-Accountability Dilemma and its Resolution via Accountability Gadgets 🎯 Joachim Neu, Ertem Nusret Tas, David Tse
• talk
• Three Attacks on Proof-of-Stake Ethereum Caspar Schwarz-Schilling, Joachim Neu, Barnabé Monnot, Aditya Asgaonkar, Ertem Nusret Tas, David Tse
• Two Attacks On Proof-of-Stake GHOST/Ethereum Joachim Neu, Ertem Nusret Tas, David Tse
• Proofs of Proof-of-Stake with Sublinear Complexity Shresth Agrawal, Joachim Neu, Ertem Nusret Tas, Dionysis Zindros
• No More Attacks on Proof-of-Stake Ethereum? Francesco D'Amato, Joachim Neu, Ertem Nusret Tas, David Tse More at his web site

Via Sreeram Kannan (Eigenlayer guy)

• Proof-of-Stake Longest Chain Protocols: Security vs Predictability Vivek Bagaria, Amir Dembo, Sreeram Kannan, Sewoong Oh, David Tse, Pramod Viswanath, Xuechao Wang, Ofer Zeitouni
• Blockchain CAP Theorem Allows User-Dependent Adaptivity and Finality 🎯 Suryanarayana Sankagiri, Xuechao Wang, Sreeram Kannan, Pramod Viswanath
• talk

Others

• Mithril: Stake-based Threshold Multisignatures 🎯 Pyrros Chaidos and Aggelos Kiayias
• Pikachu: Securing PoS Blockchains from Long-Range Attacks by Checkpointing into Bitcoin PoW using Taproot Sarah Azouvi, Marko Vukolić