{"doi":"10.1145/3317550.3321448","date_published":"2019-05-01T00:00:00Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"title":"Rethinking general-purpose decentralized computing","article_processing_charge":"No","author":[{"first_name":"Enis Ceyhun","full_name":"Alp, Enis Ceyhun","last_name":"Alp"},{"last_name":"Kokoris Kogias","full_name":"Kokoris Kogias, Eleftherios","id":"f5983044-d7ef-11ea-ac6d-fd1430a26d30","first_name":"Eleftherios"},{"first_name":"Georgia","full_name":"Fragkouli, Georgia","last_name":"Fragkouli"},{"full_name":"Ford, Bryan","last_name":"Ford","first_name":"Bryan"}],"conference":{"location":"Bertinoro, Italy","name":"HotOS: Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems","start_date":"2019-05-13","end_date":"2019-05-15"},"day":"01","quality_controlled":"1","oa_version":"None","date_updated":"2021-01-12T08:17:56Z","publication_status":"published","date_created":"2020-08-26T11:45:45Z","month":"05","scopus_import":"1","publisher":"ACM","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","extern":"1","publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9781450367271"]},"year":"2019","_id":"8296","type":"conference","publication":"Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems","status":"public","citation":{"ista":"Alp EC, Kokoris Kogias E, Fragkouli G, Ford B. 2019. Rethinking general-purpose decentralized computing. Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems. HotOS: Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, 105–112.","short":"E.C. Alp, E. Kokoris Kogias, G. Fragkouli, B. Ford, in:, Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, ACM, 2019, pp. 105–112.","ama":"Alp EC, Kokoris Kogias E, Fragkouli G, Ford B. Rethinking general-purpose decentralized computing. In: <i>Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems</i>. ACM; 2019:105-112. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1145/3317550.3321448\">10.1145/3317550.3321448</a>","apa":"Alp, E. C., Kokoris Kogias, E., Fragkouli, G., &#38; Ford, B. (2019). Rethinking general-purpose decentralized computing. In <i>Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems</i> (pp. 105–112). Bertinoro, Italy: ACM. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1145/3317550.3321448\">https://doi.org/10.1145/3317550.3321448</a>","ieee":"E. C. Alp, E. Kokoris Kogias, G. Fragkouli, and B. Ford, “Rethinking general-purpose decentralized computing,” in <i>Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems</i>, Bertinoro, Italy, 2019, pp. 105–112.","mla":"Alp, Enis Ceyhun, et al. “Rethinking General-Purpose Decentralized Computing.” <i>Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems</i>, ACM, 2019, pp. 105–12, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1145/3317550.3321448\">10.1145/3317550.3321448</a>.","chicago":"Alp, Enis Ceyhun, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Georgia Fragkouli, and Bryan Ford. “Rethinking General-Purpose Decentralized Computing.” In <i>Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems</i>, 105–12. ACM, 2019. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1145/3317550.3321448\">https://doi.org/10.1145/3317550.3321448</a>."},"page":"105-112","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"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."}]}