From permissioned to proof-of-stake consensus

Komatovic, Jovan, Lewis-Pye, Andrew, Neu, Joachim, Roughgarden, Tim and Nusret Tas, Ertem (2025) From permissioned to proof-of-stake consensus. In: Avarikioti, Zeta and Christin, Nicolas, (eds.) 7th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2025). Series: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs),354. Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. ISBN 978-3-95977-400-0

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Abstract

This paper presents the first generic compiler that transforms any permissioned consensus protocol into a proof-of-stake permissionless consensus protocol. For each of the following properties, if the initial permissioned protocol satisfies that property in the partially synchronous setting, the consequent proof-of-stake protocol also satisfies that property in the partially synchronous and quasi-permissionless setting (with the same fault-tolerance): consistency; liveness; optimistic responsiveness; every composable log-specific property; and message complexity of a given order. Moreover, our transformation ensures that the output protocol satisfies accountability (identifying culprits in the event of a consistency violation), whether or not the original permissioned protocol satisfied it.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author
Divisions:	Mathematics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Date Deposited:	29 Aug 2025 23:02
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2025 19:21
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129319

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