Manta: Privacy Preserving Decentralized Exchange

Researcher(s)

Shumo Chu

Date of Talk

Bio

Shumo Chu is an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He obtained his PhD from the University of Washington and was a research scientist at Algorand. His current research interests are on privacy preserving systems. He has been working on database systems, formal methods, and large-scale graph analytics.

Abstract

Manta: Privacy Preserving Decentralized Exchange

Cryptocurrencies and decentralized ledger technology have been widely adopted over the last decades. However, there is not yet a decentralized exchange that protects users’ privacy from end to end. In this paper, we construct the first ledger-based decentralized token exchange with strong privacy guarantees. We propose the first Decentralized Anonymous eXchange scheme (DAX scheme) based on automated market maker (AMM) and zkSNARK and present a formal definition of its security and privacy properties.

 

 

 

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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