SoK: Public Randomness

A Kavousi, Z Wang, P Jovanovic - 2024 IEEE 9th European …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Public randomness is a fundamental component in many cryptographic protocols and
distributed systems and often plays a crucial role in ensuring their security, fairness, and …

Cornucopia: Distributed Randomness at Scale

M Christ, K Choi, J Bonneau - 6th Conference on Advances in …, 2024 - drops.dagstuhl.de
We propose Cornucopia, a protocol framework for distributed randomness beacons
combining accumulators and verifiable delay functions. Cornucopia generalizes the Unicorn …

VRaaS: Verifiable Randomness as a Service on Blockchains

J Gorman, L Hanzlik, A Kate, EV Mangipudi… - Cryptology ePrint …, 2024 - eprint.iacr.org
Web3 applications, such as on-chain games, NFT minting, and leader elections necessitate
access to unbiased, unpredictable, and publicly verifiable randomness. Despite its broad …