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Career

· Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University
· Chief Scientist, Common Prefix
· PhD in Distributed Computing, ETH Zurich
· Research Position, IST Austria
· Degree in Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
· Master's in Logic, Algorithms, and Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens
· Assistant Professor, TU Wien

Publications (32)

Ride the Lightning: The Game Theory of Payment Channels
Financial Cryptography · 2019
47
cited
Brick: Asynchronous Incentive-Compatible Payment Channels
Financial Cryptography · 2021
33
cited
HIDE & SEEK: Privacy-Preserving Rebalancing on Payment Channel Networks
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2021
29
cited
FnF-BFT: Exploring Performance Limits of BFT Protocols
arXiv.org · 2020
27
cited
Towards a Game-Theoretic Security Analysis of Off-Chain Protocols
IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium · 2021
19
cited
BitVM2 : Bridging Bitcoin to Second Layers
18
cited
BitVM: Quasi-Turing Complete Computation on Bitcoin
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2024
16
cited
TxChain: Efficient Cryptocurrency Light Clients via Contingent Transaction Aggregation
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2020
15
cited
Glimpse: On-Demand PoW Light Client with Constant-Size Storage for DeFi
USENIX Security Symposium · 2023
14
cited
Divide & Scale: Formalization and Roadmap to Robust Sharding
Colloquium on Structural Information & Communication Complexity · 2019
12
cited
Alba: The Dawn of Scalable Bridges for Blockchains
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2024
11
cited
Suborn Channels: Incentives Against Timelock Bribes
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2022
10
cited
FnF-BFT: A BFT Protocol with Provable Performance Under Attack
Colloquium on Structural Information & Communication Complexity · 2023
9
cited
Securing Lightning Channels against Rational Miners
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2024
8
cited
Wiser: Increasing Throughput in Payment Channel Networks with Transaction Aggregation
Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies · 2022
8
cited
Musketeer: Incentive-Compatible Rebalancing for Payment Channel Networks
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2023
5
cited
Blink: An Optimal Proof of Proof-of-Work
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2024
4
cited
Bribe & Fork: Cheap Bribing Attacks via Forking Threat
Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies · 2024
4
cited
Bridging Bitcoin to Second Layers via BitVM2
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · 2025
4
cited
Lightning Creation Games
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems · 2023
4
cited
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