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

2017; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-63688-7_12

1611-3349

Aggelos Kiayias, Alexander Russell, Bernardo David, Roman Oliynykov,

Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting

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.