Research Area:  Blockchain Technology

Abstract:

Theft from cryptocurrency exchanges due to cyberattacks or internal fraud is a major problem. Exchanges can partially alleviate customer concerns by providing periodic proofs of solvency. We describe MProve, a proof of reserves protocol for Monero exchanges which can be combined with a known proof of liabilities protocol to provide a proof of solvency. It is the first protocol for Monero which provides address privacy by allowing an exchange to hide its own addresses within a larger anonymity set. MProve also provides a simple proof of non-collusion between exchanges.

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Author(s) Name:   Arijit Dutta; Saravanan Vijayakumaran

Publisher name:  IEEE

DOI:  10.1109/EuroSPW.2019.00043

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Paper Link:   https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8802437