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Ouroboros Crypsinous: Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Stake

Crypsinous combines a stake lottery with a private transaction ledger so the leader proof and the transfers do not reveal the stake and the amounts in the way a public chain does.

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Authors
Thomas Kerber, Aggelos Kiayias, Markulf Kohlweiss and Vassilis Zikas
Date
2019
Publisher
Thomas Kerber, Aggelos Kiayias, Markulf Kohlweiss and Vassilis Zikas
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BLC-STUDY-0124
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Crypsinous combines a stake lottery with a private transaction ledger so the leader proof and the transfers do not reveal the stake and the amounts in the way a public chain does.

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Kerber, T., Kiayias, A., Kohlweiss, M., & Zikas, V. (2019). Ouroboros Crypsinous: Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Stake. Thomas Kerber, Aggelos Kiayias, Markulf Kohlweiss and Vassilis Zikas. https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1132

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@techreport{crypsinous2019,
  title = {Ouroboros Crypsinous: Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Stake},
  author = {Thomas Kerber, Aggelos Kiayias, Markulf Kohlweiss and Vassilis Zikas},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {Thomas Kerber, Aggelos Kiayias, Markulf Kohlweiss and Vassilis Zikas},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1132},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/crypsinous}
}

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AU  - Aggelos Kiayias
AU  - Markulf Kohlweiss
AU  - Vassilis Zikas
PY  - 2019
PB  - Thomas Kerber, Aggelos Kiayias, Markulf Kohlweiss and Vassilis Zikas
UR  - https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1132
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
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