Research Theme: cryptography

Discover the posts related to cryptography produced by the team from the Blockchain@X research center at Ecole Polytechnique.

CBER Forum – “Best Before ? Expiring Central Bank Digital Currency and Loss Recovery“

Charles Kahn (University of Illinois) Presenting “Best Before? Expiring Central Bank Digital Currency and Loss Recovery Discussant: Steve Williamson (Western University) Moderator: William Roberds (FRB...

CBER Forum – “Best Before ? Expiring Central Bank Digital Currency and Loss Recovery“

Charles Kahn (University of Illinois) Presenting “Best Before? Expiring Central Bank Digital Currency and Loss Recovery Discussant: Steve Williamson (Western University) Moderator: William Roberds (FRB...

The Future(s) of Money

A two-day workshop where academics, central bankers and industry experts will envision the future(s) of money. Recordings of all the talks available HERE Academia: Universities...

CBER Forum – Digital Currency Competition

CBER Symposium: Digital Currency Competition Description The event will be hosted by Aleh Tsyvinkski (Yale University) and will include the following presentations: “The Coming Battle...

CBER Forum – The Limits of Code Deference

CBER Symposium: Auditing Economic Mechanisms in Blockchain Protocols The event will be hosted by Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern) and will include the following presentations: « Bridging...

Crypto in France: Structuring of the Sector and Adoption by the General Public

The Blockchain & B2B Platforms Chair at Ecole Polytechnique aims to combine academic excellence with institutional and scientific prestige in order to foster innovation in blockchain. Pioneer in its field and supported by Capgemini, Nomadic Labs and Caisse des Dépôts, is proud to have supported the production of this study...

CBER Forum – The Adoption of Blockchain Based Decentralized Exchanges

Topic: The Adoption of Blockchain-Based Decentralized Exchanges Abstract: We investigate the market microstructure of Automated Market Makers (AMMs), the most prominent type of blockchain-based decentralized...

Optimal Cryptocurrency Design: Seigniorage versus Transaction Fees

This paper studies how transaction fees and seigniorage, equivalent to inflation in the cryptocurrency setting, affect miner incentives and trade congestion. Each cryptocurrency miner chooses how many new transactions to group into the next block of transactions that the miner competes to validate. The successful miner earns (i) transaction fees...

Cryptoeconomics Seminar

Blockchain & Digital Market Design Seminar - We consider blockchain adoption in a multiple firm market. The blockchain cost per firm decreases with the adoption rate as the cost of verification and recording is distributed...

Call for Papers – CBER Forum May 12th – 13th, 2022

The Crypto and Blockchain Economics Research (CBER) Forum invites you to submit papers for presentation at the 2nd Annual CBER Conference on May 12th –...

Efficient Multivariate Low-Degree Tests via Interactive Oracle Proofs of Proximity for Polynomial Codes

In STARK-like zero -knowledge proofs, like those of the Starware company, the major algorithmic and mathematical breakthrough which enables such great performance in applications is the invention of very efficient "low degree test" of univariate polynomials. Our work enables to perform such low degree test for multivariate polynomials, with the...

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