Duke CS Awarded Several Grants from the Ethereum Foundation

Duke CS Awarded Several Grants from the Ethereum Foundation

Duke CS Assistant Professor Kartik Nayak and Yale CS Assistant Professor Fan Zhang received several grants from the Ethereum Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting the open-source blockchain technology that powers Ethereum. These grants will fund research to advance the Ethereum ecosystem: Disentangling Transaction Privacy and Consensus in Ethereum (Nayak and Zhang); Catching the ephemeral: Understanding blockchains through mempool data (Zhang and Nayak); and Improving Ethereum Communication Efficiency through Accountability and Flexible Quorums (Nayak).