Instantaneous Decentralized Poker

By Iddo Bentov, Ranjit Kumaresan, Andrew K. Miller. 2017

65 citations recorded by the source corpus.

We present efficient protocols for amortized secure multiparty computation with penalties and secure cash distribution, of which poker is a prime example. Our protocols have an initial phase where the parties interact with a cryptocurrency network, that then enables them to interact only among themselves over the course of playing many poker games in which money changes hands.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Information Systems

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Artificial Intelligence

1. Ari Juels
2. Benedikt Bünz
3. Dan Boneh
4. Fan Zhang
5. Iddo Bentov
6. Steven Goldfeder
7. Brent Waters
8. S. Matthew Weinberg

In Computational Theory and Mathematics

1. Benedikt Bünz
2. Ari Juels
3. Dan Boneh
4. Yan Ji
5. Fan Zhang
6. Iddo Bentov
7. Steven Goldfeder
8. Brent Waters

In Information Systems

1. Ari Juels
2. Dan Boneh
3. Benedikt Bünz
4. Fan Zhang
5. Iddo Bentov
6. Steven Goldfeder
7. Pengbo Si
8. Ruizhe Yang

Citations in the corpus

• Ekiden: A Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contracts (2018, neutral): “Poker is a common benchmark application for blockchain systems and secure multi-party computation called mental poker [11], [43], [42], [6].”
• Arbitrum: Scalable, private smart contracts (2018, background): “Previous state channel research [5, 14, 15, 25] has mainly focused on a different type of scaling than Arbitrum has achieved.”
• Tesseract: Real-Time Cryptocurrency Exchange using Trusted Hardware (2017, background): “For instance, Carol may wish to play a trust-free poker game in which the pot is denominated in tBTC instead of ETH (it is impractical to play poker directly on the Bitcoin blockchain and instead Ethereum’s stateful contracts need to utilized, see [15]).”
• Zether: Towards Privacy in a Smart Contract World (2020, background): “For example, a private account can be used to fund an account on the smart contract, or be tied to a payment channel smart contract [5, 69].”
• Integrated Blockchain and Edge Computing Systems: A Survey, Some Research Issues and Challenges (2019, methodology): “An efficient protocol for amortized secure MPC with penalties and secure cash distribution is recently presented in [77].”