S7 - Secure and Scalable Blockchain Technology – SFB 1119 CROSSING

Project Areas

S – Solutions

S7 – Secure and Scalable Blockchain Technology

This project will address the current scalability challenges of decentralized blockchain technology. The overall goal is to develop protocols that achieve similar efficiency as centralized systems, while at the same time guaranteeing strong security against realistic adversaries. To accomplish this goal, the project will investigate two main directions. First, it will develop novel consensus mechanisms with significantly improved transaction throughput and reduced latency. Second, the project will design off-chain protocols, which support high transaction throughput by keeping the vast majority of transactions off-chain.

Principal Investigators

	Name	Working area(s)	Contact
	Prof. Sebastian Faust Applied Cryptography	S7, P2	sebastian.faust@tu-... +49 6151 16-25710 S2\|20 308
	Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi System Security	P3, S2, S7	ahmad.sadeghi@trust.tu-... +49 6151 16-25328 S2\|20 305

Researchers

	Name	Contact
	Jan Bormet	jan.bormet@tu-... +49 6151 16-25720 S2\|20 310
	Marius Hagemann	marius.hagemann@tu-... +49 6151 16-25726 S2\|20 312
	Jonas Hofmann Applied Cryptography	jonas.hofmann1@tu-... +49 6151 16-25720 S2\|20 310
	Philipp-Florens Lehwalder	philipp-florens.lehwalder@tu-... +49 6151 16-25728 S2\|20 316
	Elena Micheli Applied Cryptography	elena.micheli@tu-... +49 6151 16-25714 S2\|20 315
	Ziyan Qu	ziyan.qu@tu-... +49 6151 16-25739 S2\|20 314
	Kathrin Wirschem Applied Cryptography	kathrin.wirschem@tu-... +49 6151 16-25727 S2\|20 315
	Liang Zhao	liang.zhao@tu-... 25739 S2\|20 314

Project Areas