PriDe CT: Towards Public Consensus, Private Transactions, and Forward Secrecy in Decentralized Payments

ePrint Report: PriDe CT: Towards Public Consensus, Private Transactions, and Forward Secrecy in Decentralized Payments

Yue Guo, Harish Karthikeyan, Antigoni Polychroniadou

Anonymous Zether, proposed by Bunz et al. (FC, 2020) and subsequently improved by Diamond (IEEE S&P, 2021) is an account-based confidential payment mechanism that works by using a smart contract to achieve privacy (i.e. identity of receivers to transactions and payloads are hidden). In this work, we look at simplifying the existing protocol while also achieving batching of transactions …

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