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The UMass Amherst Cryptoeconomics Lab is focused on research involving cryptocurrencies, blockchains, and related technologies. Our interests include advances in security and network performance in an economic context. Among other contributions, we are home to the Graphene project for efficient block relaying and set reconciliation.

A presentation on Graphene:

A presentation on Bobtail:

Latest News

  • "Bobtail: A Proof-of-Work Target that Minimizes Blockchain Mining Variance" accepted to ISOC NDSS 2020
  • George Bissias presented "Bonded Mining: Difficulty Adjustment by Miner Commitment" at the ESORICS International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology 2019
  • Pinar Ozisik presented "Graphene: Efficient Interactive Set Reconciliation Applied to Blockchain Propagation" at ACM SIGCOMM 2019 in Beijing
  • George Bissias presented "Using Economic Risk to Model Miner Hash Rate Allocation in Cryptocurrencies" at the ESORICS International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology 2018
  • Bitcoin Unlimited releases Graphene to its dev branch for preliminary tests. (July 2018)
    [Twitter], [Reddit discussion by Peter Rizun]
  • Brian Levine presented Graphene and Bobtail at ScalingBitcoin 2017 (Nov 2017) [presentation slides]

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Affiliates

  • David Thibodeau, student