Scaling Privacy Perserving Payments

We explore privacy-preserving payments in a centralized setting, such as CBDCs. Specifically, we focus on two classes of designs that hide the transaction graph: Chaumian e-cash and Merkle tree-based systems (e.g., Tornado Cash), which differ both in their security assumptions and scalability. In ou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ali, Ayesha
Other Authors: Virza, Madars
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156765