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ZeroAuction: Zero-Deposit Sealed-Bid Auction via Delayed Execution

Zhang, Haoqian  
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Yeo, Michelle
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Estrada-Galiñanes, Vero  
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Budurushi, Jurlind
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Kulyk, Oksana
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November 30, 2024
Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2024 International Workshops - Voting, DeFI, WTSC, CoDecFin, Revised Selected Papers
9th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting Schemes, Workshop on Decentralized Finance, Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts, Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance held in conjunction with the International Conference on Financial Cryptography

Auctions, a long-standing method of trading goods and services, are a promising use case for decentralized finance. However, due to the inherent transparency property of blockchains, current sealed-bid auction implementations on smart contracts requires a bidder to send at least two transactions to the underlying blockchain: a bidder must first commit their bid in the first transaction during the bidding period and reveal their bid in the second transaction once the revealing period starts. In addition, the smart contract often requires a deposit to incentivize bidders to reveal their bids, rendering unnecessary financial burdens and risks to bidders. We address these drawbacks by enforcing delayed execution in the blockchain execution layer to all transactions. In short, the blockchain only accepts encrypted transactions, and when the blockchain has finalized an encrypted transaction, the consensus group decrypts and executes it. This architecture enables ZeroAuction, a sealed-bid auction smart contract with zero deposit requirement. ZeroAuction relies on the blockchain enhanced with delayed execution to hide and bind the bids within the encrypted transactions and, after a delay period, reveals them automatically by decrypting and executing the transactions. Because a bidder only needs to interact with the blockchain once instead of two times to participate in the auction, ZeroAuction significantly reduces the latency overhead along with eliminating the deposit requirement.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-69231-4_12
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85211348413

Author(s)
Zhang, Haoqian  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Yeo, Michelle

National University of Singapore

Estrada-Galiñanes, Vero  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Ford, Bryan  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Editors
Budurushi, Jurlind
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Kulyk, Oksana
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Allen, Sarah
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Diamandis, Theo
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Klages-Mundt, Ariah
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Bracciali, Andrea
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Goodell, Geoffrey
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Matsuo, Shin’ichiro
Date Issued

2024-11-30

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Published in
Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2024 International Workshops - Voting, DeFI, WTSC, CoDecFin, Revised Selected Papers
DOI of the book
10.1007/978-3-031-69231-4
ISBN of the book

978-3-031-69231-4

Total of pages

390

Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); 14746

ISSN (of the series)

1611-3349

0302-9743

Start page

170

End page

188

Subjects

Auction

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Blockchain

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Commit-and-Reveal

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Decentralized Finance

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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
9th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting Schemes, Workshop on Decentralized Finance, Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts, Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance held in conjunction with the International Conference on Financial Cryptography

FC

Willemstad, Netherlands

2024-03-04 - 2024-03-08

Available on Infoscience
January 26, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/244797
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