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Ouroboros Genesis: Composable Proof-of-Stake Blockchains with Dynamic Availability

Genesis gives a way to join late, when honest stake may be dynamic, without a checkpoint the protocol itself cannot justify.

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Authors
Christian Badertscher, Peter Gaži, Aggelos Kiayias, Alexander Russell and Vassilis Zikas
Date
2018
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Christian Badertscher, Peter Gaži, Aggelos Kiayias, Alexander Russell and Vassilis Zikas
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BLC-STUDY-0111
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Genesis gives a way to join late, when honest stake may be dynamic, without a checkpoint the protocol itself cannot justify.

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Badertscher, C., Gaži, P., Kiayias, A., Russell, A., & Zikas, V. (2018). Ouroboros Genesis: Composable Proof-of-Stake Blockchains with Dynamic Availability. Christian Badertscher, Peter Gaži, Aggelos Kiayias, Alexander Russell and Vassilis Zikas. https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/378

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@techreport{ouroborosgenesis2018,
  title = {Ouroboros Genesis: Composable Proof-of-Stake Blockchains with Dynamic Availability},
  author = {Christian Badertscher, Peter Gaži, Aggelos Kiayias, Alexander Russell and Vassilis Zikas},
  year = {2018},
  institution = {Christian Badertscher, Peter Gaži, Aggelos Kiayias, Alexander Russell and Vassilis Zikas},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/378},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/ouroboros-genesis}
}

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TI  - Ouroboros Genesis: Composable Proof-of-Stake Blockchains with Dynamic Availability
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AU  - Peter Gaži
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AU  - Alexander Russell
AU  - Vassilis Zikas
PY  - 2018
PB  - Christian Badertscher, Peter Gaži, Aggelos Kiayias, Alexander Russell and Vassilis Zikas
UR  - https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/378
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

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