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Fraud and Data Availability Proofs

Light clients can refuse a block if a fraud proof shows it is invalid, but only if the block's data was actually published. The paper shows how erasure coding and sampling let clients check publication without downloading everything.

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Authors: Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino and Vitalik Buterin
Date: 2018
Publisher: Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino and Vitalik Buterin
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Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0077
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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Al-Bassam, M., Sonnino, A., & Buterin, V. (2018). Fraud and Data Availability Proofs. Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino and Vitalik Buterin. https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09044

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@techreport{fraudandda2018,
  title = {Fraud and Data Availability Proofs},
  author = {Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino and Vitalik Buterin},
  year = {2018},
  institution = {Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino and Vitalik Buterin},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09044},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/fraud-and-da}
}

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AU  - Alberto Sonnino
AU  - Vitalik Buterin
PY  - 2018
PB  - Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino and Vitalik Buterin
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09044
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
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