FIRST: FrontrunnIng Resilient Smart ConTracts

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Autori principali: Sariboz, Emrah, Panwar, Gaurav, Vishwanathan, Roopa, Misra, Satyajayant
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2022
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author Sariboz, Emrah
Panwar, Gaurav
Vishwanathan, Roopa
Misra, Satyajayant
author_facet Sariboz, Emrah
Panwar, Gaurav
Vishwanathan, Roopa
Misra, Satyajayant
contents Owing to the meteoric rise in the usage of cryptocurrencies, there has been a widespread adaptation of traditional financial applications such as lending, borrowing, margin trading, and more, to the cryptocurrency realm. In some cases, the inherently transparent and unregulated nature of cryptocurrencies leads to attacks on users of these applications. One such attack is frontrunning, where a malicious entity leverages the knowledge of currently unprocessed financial transactions submitted by users and attempts to get its own transaction(s) executed ahead of the unprocessed ones. The consequences of this can be financial loss, inaccurate transactions, and even exposure to more attacks. We propose FIRST, a framework that prevents frontrunning attacks, and is built using cryptographic protocols including verifiable delay functions and aggregate signatures. In our design, we have a federated setup for generating the public parameters of the VDF, thus removing the need for a single trusted setup. We formally analyze FIRST, prove its security using the Universal Composability framework and experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of FIRST.
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Sariboz, Emrah
Panwar, Gaurav
Vishwanathan, Roopa
Misra, Satyajayant
Cryptography and Security
Owing to the meteoric rise in the usage of cryptocurrencies, there has been a widespread adaptation of traditional financial applications such as lending, borrowing, margin trading, and more, to the cryptocurrency realm. In some cases, the inherently transparent and unregulated nature of cryptocurrencies leads to attacks on users of these applications. One such attack is frontrunning, where a malicious entity leverages the knowledge of currently unprocessed financial transactions submitted by users and attempts to get its own transaction(s) executed ahead of the unprocessed ones. The consequences of this can be financial loss, inaccurate transactions, and even exposure to more attacks. We propose FIRST, a framework that prevents frontrunning attacks, and is built using cryptographic protocols including verifiable delay functions and aggregate signatures. In our design, we have a federated setup for generating the public parameters of the VDF, thus removing the need for a single trusted setup. We formally analyze FIRST, prove its security using the Universal Composability framework and experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of FIRST.
title FIRST: FrontrunnIng Resilient Smart ConTracts
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00955