Paper 2024/957
VRaaS: Verifiable Randomness as a Service on Blockchains
Abstract
Web3 applications, such as on-chain games, NFT minting, and leader elections necessitate access to unbiased, unpredictable, and publicly verifiable randomness. Despite its broad use cases and huge demand, there is a notable absence of comprehensive treatments of on-chain verifiable randomness services. To bridge this, we offer an extensive formal analysis of on-chain verifiable randomness services.
We present the
Note: The ledger and the VRaaS functionality have undergone a major update in this new version.
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PDF
- Category
- Foundations
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- Randomness ServiceBlockchainVerifiable Random FunctionSmart ContractUniversal Composability
- Contact author(s)
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jacobgorman613 @ gmail com
hanzlik @ cispa de
aniket @ purdue edu
e mangipudi @ supraoracles com
pratyay85 @ gmail com
iampratiksarkar @ gmail com
t srikrishnan @ gmail com - History
- 2025-02-05: last of 2 revisions
- 2024-06-14: received
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- https://ia.cr/2024/957
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/957, author = {Jacob Gorman and Lucjan Hanzlik and Aniket Kate and Easwar Vivek Mangipudi and Pratyay Mukherjee and Pratik Sarkar and Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan}, title = {{VRaaS}: Verifiable Randomness as a Service on Blockchains}, howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2024/957}, year = {2024}, url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/957} }