[Resource Topic] 2020/527: Aggregatable Subvector Commitments for Stateless Cryptocurrencies

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Title:
Aggregatable Subvector Commitments for Stateless Cryptocurrencies

Authors: Alin Tomescu, Ittai Abraham, Vitalik Buterin, Justin Drake, Dankrad Feist, Dmitry Khovratovich

Abstract:

An aggregatable subvector commitment (aSVC) scheme is a vector commitment (VC) scheme that can aggregate multiple proofs into a single, small subvector proof. In this paper, we formalize aSVCs and give a construction from constant-sized polynomial commitments. Our construction is unique in that it has linear-sized public parameters, it can compute all constant-sized proofs in quasilinear time, it updates proofs in constant time and it can aggregate multiple proofs into a constant-sized subvector proof. Furthermore, our concrete proof sizes are small due to our use of pairing-friendly groups. We use our aSVC to obtain a payments-only stateless cryptocurrency with very low communication and computation overheads. Specifically, our constant-sized, aggregatable proofs reduce each block’s proof overhead to a single group element, which is optimal. Furthermore, our subvector proofs speed up block verification and our smaller public parameters further reduce block size.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/527

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