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Latus Incentive Scheme: Enabling Decentralization in Blockchains based on Recursive SNARKs (2103.13754v1)
Published 25 Mar 2021 in cs.CR and cs.GT
Abstract: In the Zendoo whitepaper we introduced a novel SNARK-based construction that allows Bitcoin-like blockchains to create and communicate with sidechains of different types without knowing their internal structure. We also introduced a specific construction, called Latus, allowing creation of fully verifiable sidechains. In the paper we omitted a detailed description of an incentive scheme for Latus that is an essential element of a real decentralized system. This paper fills the gap by introducing details of the incentive scheme for the Latus sidechain. The represented ideas can also be adopted by other SNARK-based blockchains to incentivize decentralized proofs creation.