@inproceedings{8296,
  abstract     = {While showing great promise, smart contracts are difficult to program correctly, as they need a deep understanding of cryptography and distributed algorithms, and offer limited functionality, as they have to be deterministic and cannot operate on secret data. In this paper we present Protean, a general-purpose decentralized computing platform that addresses these limitations by moving from a monolithic execution model, where all participating nodes store all the state and execute every computation, to a modular execution-model. Protean employs secure specialized modules, called functional units, for building decentralized applications that are currently insecure or impossible to implement with smart contracts. Each functional unit is a distributed system that provides a special-purpose functionality by exposing atomic transactions to the smart-contract developer. Combining these transactions into arbitrarily-defined workflows, developers can build a larger class of decentralized applications, such as provably-secure and fair lotteries or e-voting.},
  author       = {Alp, Enis Ceyhun and Kokoris Kogias, Eleftherios and Fragkouli, Georgia and Ford, Bryan},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems},
  isbn         = {9781450367271},
  location     = {Bertinoro, Italy},
  pages        = {105--112},
  publisher    = {ACM},
  title        = {{Rethinking general-purpose decentralized computing}},
  doi          = {10.1145/3317550.3321448},
  year         = {2019},
}