A DAG-Based Mechanism for Fairer and More Decentralized Reward Distribution
Fri, Nov 15, 2024, 08:01 AM · 23:53
Ethereum rewards validators for their correct and timely votes, incentivizing honest behavior and ensuring security. Although Ethereum has advanced large-scale decentralization, its current mechanism for verifying timely attestations is not entirely decentralized. This presentation highlights a bottleneck in Ethereum's reward distribution that could compromise LMD GHOST security. We propose a distributed DAG-based reward mechanism to enhance security, fairness, and incentive compatibility.
I am currently a Ph.D. student at the COSIC group in KU Leuven. The main focus of my research is on analyzing security attacks that can be applied to consensus mechanisms utilized in blockchain technologies and exploring possible solutions to mitigate these kinds of attacks.