AMOUSSOU-GUENOU Yackolley

Supervision : Maria POTOP-BUTUCARU

Governing the commons in Blockchains

Blockchains are transactional systems based on crypto-currencies governed by decentralized protocols. Decentralized protocol rules govern a community of users without a centralized authority. The “common” shared resource here is a distributed immutable ledger resilient to malicious attacks. The level of resilience strictly depends on the good behavior of participants, that are recompensed by a rewarding mechanism. The objective of this doctoral thesis is then to combine self-organized micro-economies success rules with on- the-shelf tools issued from decision theories including modeling the typical uncertainty incurred in distributed computing systems. The combined rules resulted from these theories will be translated in distributed protocols that will govern a new generation of block-chain-based sustainable communities.

Defence : 10/08/2020

Jury members :

ANCEAUME Emmanuelle (Directrice de Recherche CNRS, IRISA) [Rapporteur]
FERNANDEZ ANTA Antonio (Research Professor, IMDEA Networks) [Rapporteur]
EL FALLAH SEGHROUCHNI Amal (Professeure, Sorbonne Université)
KUZNETSOV Petr (Professeur, Télécom Paris)
PRAT Julien (Directeur de Recherche CNRS, CREST, École Polytechnique)
BIAIS Bruno (Professeur, HEC Paris)
TUCCI-PIERGIOVANNI Sara (Cheffe de Laboratoire, CEA List)
POTOP-BUTUCARU Maria (Professeure, Sorbonne Université)

Departure date : 10/08/2020

2018-2021 Publications

  • 2021
    • Y. Amoussou‑Guenou, A. Pozzo, M. Potop‑Butucaru, S. Tucci‑Piergiovanni : “On Fairness in Committee-Based Blockchains”, 2th International Conference on Blockchain Economics, Security and Protocols, Tokenomics, vol. 82, Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Toulouse, France, pp. 4:1-4:15, (Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik), (ISBN: 978-3-95977-157-3) (2021)
    • Y. Amoussou‑Guenou, B. Biais, M. Potop‑Butucaru, S. Tucci‑Piergiovanni : “Rational Behaviors in Committee-Based Blockchains”, 24th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2020), vol. 184, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Strassbourg, France, pp. 12:1-12:16, (Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik), (ISBN: 978-3-95977-176-4) (2021)
    • Y. Amoussou‑Guenou, S. Baarir, M. Potop‑Butucaru, N. Sznajder, L. Tible, S. Tixeuil : “On the Encoding and Solving of Partial Information Games”, Networked Systems, vol. 12129, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Marrakech, Morocco, pp. 60-76, (Springer International Publishing), (ISBN: 978-3-030-67087-0) (2021)
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
    • Y. Amoussou‑Guenou, A. Del Pozzo, M. Potop‑Butucaru, S. Tucci‑Pergiovanni : “Correctness of Tendermint-Core Blockchains”, 22nd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2018), vol. 125, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Hong Kong, China, pp. 16:1-16:16, (Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik) (2018)
    • Y. Amoussou‑Guenou, A. Del Pozzo, M. Potop‑Butucaru, S. Tucci‑Piergiovanni : “Dissecting Tendermint”, Networked Systems - 7th International Conference, NETYS 2019, vol. 11704, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Marrakech, Morocco, pp. 166–182, (Springer, Cham), (ISBN: 978-3-030-31277-0) (2018)
    • Y. Amoussou‑Guenou, A. Del Pozzo, M. Potop‑Butucaru, S. Tucci‑Piergiovanni : “Correctness and Fairness of Tendermint-core Blockchains”, 1-29 pages (2018)
    • Y. Amoussou‑Guenou, S. Baarir, M. Potop‑Butucaru, N. Sznajder, L. Tible, S. Tixeuil : “On the encoding and solving partial information games”, (2018)