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DIABLO: A Benchmark Suite for Blockchains

Rachid Guerraoui, Gauthier Jérôme Timothée Voron, Vincent Gramoli, Andrei Lebedev

With the recent advent of blockchains, we have witnessed a plethora of blockchain proposals. These proposals range from using work to using time, storage or stake in order to select blocks to be appended to the chain. As a drawback it makes it difficult fo ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Diablo-v2: A Benchmark for Blockchain Systems

Rachid Guerraoui, Gauthier Jérôme Timothée Voron, Vincent Gramoli, Andrei Lebedev

2022

Wavelength-Division Multiplexed Optical Cryptocurrency

Maxim Karpov

We propose an optical proof-of-work scheme that feeds data encoded into wavelength-division multiplexed modes through a programmable photonic network. We verify robustness by modeling network dispersion, allowing for energy-efficient optical alternatives t ...

IEEE2021

Diablo: A Distributed Analytical Blockchain Benchmark Framework Focusing on Real-World Workloads

Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli

The plethora of blockchain proposals raises the question of selecting the ideal blockchain for a given decentralised application (DApp). Most blockchain performance evaluations are obtained through tailored environments under unknown experimental settings ...

2021

Essays in Financial Economics

Marc André Frattaroli

This thesis consists of three chapters that study separate subjects in the area of corporate governance and financial intermediation. In the first chapter, I study a protectionist anti-takeover law introduced in 2014 in France that covers a subset of all ...

EPFL2020

Quantifying Endogeneity of Cryptocurrency Markets

Thomas Alois Weber, Michael Mark

In this paper we construct a “reflexivity” index for Bitcoin cryptocurrency that measures the amount of activity generated endogenously within the market. For this purpose we fit a univariate self-exciting Hawkes process with two-classes of parametric kern ...

2020

The Anatomy of a Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Scheme

Jiahua Xu

While pump-and-dump schemes have attracted the attention of cryptocurrency observers and regulators alike, this paper represents the first detailed empirical query of pump-and-dump activities in cryptocurrency markets. We present a case study of a recent p ...

USENIX ASSOC2019

Scaling Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Matej Pavlovic

Online services are becoming more and more ubiquitous and keep growing in scale. At the same time, they are required to be highly available, secure, energy-efficient, and to achieve high performance. To ensure these (and many other) properties, replication ...

EPFL2019

Three Essays on Collective Forms of Organizing for Production and Innovation

Joana Rodrigues Pereira

This dissertation focuses on collective forms or organizing that through crowds or communities undertake production or innovation activities. Such organizations deviate from the traditional notions of hierarchy, authority, and control; however, they are st ...

EPFL2017

Poster: LocalCoin: An Ad-hoc Payment Scheme for Areas with High Connectivity

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar, Dimitrios Chatzopoulos

The popularity of digital currencies, especially cryptocurrencies, has been continuously growing since the appearance of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency protocol enabling transactions between individuals without the need of a truste ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016