Proofs-of-delay and randomness beacons in Ethereum

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Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More (2018, methodology): “This can be further improved by using an interactive referee delegation model [CRR11], previously proposed for other blockchain applications [BGB17,TR].”
Ekiden: A Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contracts (2018, background): “TEEbased computation in Ekiden provides confidentiality, enabling efficient use of powerful cryptographic primitives that a TEE is known to emulate, such as functional encryption [29] and black-box obfuscation [58], and also provides a trustworthy source of randomness, a major acknowledged difficult”
An Overview on Smart Contracts: Challenges, Advances and Platforms (2019, unknown): “Based on [42], [43] proposed a multi-round protocol to verify delay functions using a refereed delegation model.”
Arbitrum: Scalable, private smart contracts (2018, background): “8 Ethereum’s global gas limit is a significant limitation that makes many computations – that would take just seconds to execute on a modern CPU – unachievable [8, 24].”
The Ekiden Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contracts (2020, background): “3 To address the availability and network security limitations of TEEs, Ekiden supports on-chain checkpointing and (optional) storage of contract state and thereby supports safe interaction among long-lived smart contracts across different trust domains.”