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by Marwa Mouallem, Ittay Eyal, and Ittai Abraham on August 09, 2024
Public key cryptography (PKC) is a fundamental technology that is a key enabler to the Internet and the whole client-server paradigm. Without public key cryptography there would be no cryptocurrencies, no online bank accounts, no online retail, etc.
by Surya Bakshi (UIUC, IC3, Offchain Labs), Sarah Allen (IC3, Flashbots), Lorenz Breidenbach (IC3, Chainlink Labs), Jim Ballingall (IC3), Haaroon Yousaf (IC3), Patrick McCorry (IC3, Arbitrum Foundation), Giannis Kaklamanis (Yale University), Vivian Jeng (Ethereum Foundation), Jayamine Alupotha (IC3, University of Bern), Mariarosaria Barbaraci (IC3, University of Bern), Abhimanyu Rawat (UPF Barcelona) on June 20, 2024
The team behind Boquila, a proof of concept to obscure identifiable information from third-party websites, took the top spot at this year’s hackathon. We sat down with Mariarosaria Barbaraci and Jayamine Alupotha, two members of the winning team, to talk about what they built and their experience at this year’s IC3 Blockchain Camp.
by Philipp Schneider (University of Bern, IC3) with contributions by Ignacio Amores-Sesar (University of Bern, IC3), and Christian Cachin (University of Bern, IC3) on May 17, 2024
In a three part series, we look at the “Snow” protocols that address the fundamental consensus problem and were introduced in a whitepaper by a group associated with AvaLabs that pioneered the Avalanche blockchain infrastructure. This is a post that consists of three parts. Part 1 appears here, part 2 and part 3 appear on the Crypto@Bern blog. This first part gives an overview of these Snow protocols and a summary of our findings.
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PROF: Protected Order Flow in a Profit-Seeking World

Users of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications face significant risks from adversarial actions that manipulate the order of transactions to extract value from users. Such actions—an adversarial form of what is called maximal extractable value (MEV)—impact both individual outcomes and the stability of the DeFi ecosystem. MEV exploitation, moreover, is being institutionalized through an architectural paradigm known Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS). This work introduces a system called PROF (Protected Order Flow) that is designed to limit harmful forms of MEV in existing PBS systems. For further details, please check out our Projects Page.

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DeFi
MEV
PBS
PROF

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