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Discreet Log Contracts

The oracle publishes a signature on an outcome. Parties use adaptor signatures so the signature that settles the contract also reveals the oracle's secret, without the oracle knowing which contract it served.

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Authors: Thaddeus Dryja
Date: 2017
Publisher: Thaddeus Dryja
Version: Source cited by the 2017 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0179
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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Dryja, T. (2017). Discreet Log Contracts. Thaddeus Dryja. https://adiabat.github.io/dlc.pdf

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@techreport{discreetlogcontracts2017,
  title = {Discreet Log Contracts},
  author = {Thaddeus Dryja},
  year = {2017},
  institution = {Thaddeus Dryja},
  url = {https://adiabat.github.io/dlc.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/discreet-log-contracts}
}

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AU  - Thaddeus Dryja
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