Paper 2022/288
Spats: confidential assets and non-fungible tokens
Abstract
In privacy-preserving transaction protocols, confidential asset designs permit transfer of quantities of distinct asset types in a way that obscures their types and values. Spark is a protocol that provides flexible privacy properties relating to addressing, transaction sources and recipients, and value transfer; however, it does not natively support the use of multiple confidential asset types or non-fungible tokens. Here we describe Spats, a new design for confidential assets and serialized tokens compatible with Spark that focuses on efficient and modular implementation. It does so by extending coin value commitments to bind and mask an asset type and identifier, and asserting in zero knowledge that they are maintained throughout transactions. We describe the cryptographic components and changes to the Spark protocol necessary for the design of Spats.
Note: Adds support for transparent output value in spend transactions.
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- Preprint.
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aaron @ cypherstack com
aram @ firo org - History
- 2024-02-14: last of 5 revisions
- 2022-03-07: received
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- https://ia.cr/2022/288
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/288,
author = {Aaron Feickert and Aram Jivanyan},
title = {Spats: confidential assets and non-fungible tokens},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2022/288},
year = {2022},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/288}
}
