Paper 2025/1965
Auntie: Unobservable Contracts from Zerocash and Trusted Execution Environments
, NASK National Research Institute, OktawaveAbstract
Privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies like Zerocash only support direct payments and not the execution of more complex contracts. Bitcoin and Ethereum, on the other hand, cannot guarantee privacy, and using them for contract execution leaves open questions about the fungibility of proceeds and requires contract designers to take frontrunning countermeasures. This work reconciles the two worlds and develops a lightweight protocol for decentralized execution of complex contracts that (1) is undetectable to the network at large, (2) maintains anonymity of the potentially mutually distrustful counterparties and unlinkability of their repeated interactions, (3) guarantees fair termination, and (4) is immediately resistant to frontrunning and miner bribery attacks. This is achieved by leveraging the confidentiality and anonymity guarantees of Zerocash and the verifiability and flexibility of trusted execution environments.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- FairnessPrivacy coinsTrusted execution environments
- Contact author(s)
- adrian cinal @ nask pl
- History
- 2026-08-04: last of 5 revisions
- 2025-10-20: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2025/1965
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2025/1965,
author = {Adrian Cinal},
title = {Auntie: Unobservable Contracts from Zerocash and Trusted Execution Environments},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2025/1965},
year = {2025},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1965}
}
