Georgia Avarikioti
Dr.sc.ETH
Role
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PostDoc Researcher
Security and Privacy, E192-06
Projects
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Scalable, Private, and Interoperable Layer 2
2023 – 2027 / Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)
Publications: 204483 / 204345 -
A Composable Rational Framework for Blockchain Systems
2022 – 2025 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Publications: 150285 / 191199 / 190025 / 190616 / 190619 / 191168 / 200038 / 204344 / 204483 / 204345
Publications
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Musketeer: Incentive-Compatible Rebalancing for Payment Channel Networks
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Avarikioti, Z., Schmid, S., & Tiwari, S. (2024). Musketeer: Incentive-Compatible Rebalancing for Payment Channel Networks. In R. Böhme & L. Kiffer (Eds.), 6th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2024) (pp. 1–22). https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.AFT.2024.13
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Projects: CoRaF (2022–2025) / SCALE2 (2023–2027) / SFB SPyCoDe (2023–2026) -
Bribe & Fork: Cheap PCN Bribing Attacks via Forking Threat
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Avarikioti, Z., Kędzior, P., Lizurej, T., & Michalak, T. (2024). Bribe & Fork: Cheap PCN Bribing Attacks via Forking Threat. In R. Böhme & L. Kiffer (Eds.), 6th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2024) (pp. 1–22). https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.AFT.2024.11
Projects: CoRaF (2022–2025) / SFB SPyCoDe (2023–2026) -
Brief Announcement: Musketeer - Incentive-Compatible Rebalancing for Payment Channel Networks
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Avarikioti, Z., Schmid, S., & Tiwari, S. (2024). Brief Announcement: Musketeer - Incentive-Compatible Rebalancing for Payment Channel Networks. In PODC ’24: Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (pp. 306–309). https://doi.org/10.1145/3662158.3662809
Projects: CoRaF (2022–2025) / SCALE2 (2023–2027) / SFB SPyCoDe (2023–2026) -
Glimpse: On-Demand PoW Light Client with Constant-Size Storage for DeFi
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Scaffino, G., Aumayr, L., Avarikioti, G., & Maffei, M. (2023). Glimpse: On-Demand PoW Light Client with Constant-Size Storage for DeFi. In Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (pp. 733–750).
Projects: Browsec (2018–2024) / CDL-BOT (2020–2025) / CoRaF (2022–2025) / SFB SPyCoDe (2023–2026) -
Lightning Creation Games
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Avarikioti, G., Lizurej, T., Michalak, T., & Yeo, M. (2023). Lightning Creation Games. In E. Bertino, B. Li, O. Frieder, & X. Jia (Eds.), 2023 IEEE 43rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2023) (pp. 603–613). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS57875.2023.00037
Project: CoRaF (2022–2025) -
Divide & Scale: Formalization and Roadmap to Robust Sharding
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Avarikioti, G., Desjardins, A., Kokoris-Kogias, L., & Wattenhofer, R. (2023). Divide & Scale: Formalization and Roadmap to Robust Sharding. In S. Rajsbaum, A. Balliu, J. Daymude, & D. Olivetti (Eds.), Structural Information and Communication Complexity : 30th International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2023, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 6–9, 2023, Proceedings (pp. 199–245). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_10
Project: CoRaF (2022–2025) -
FnF-BFT: A BFT Protocol with Provable Performance Under Attack
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Avarikioti, G., Heimbach, L., Schmid, R., Vanbever, L., Wattenhofer, R., & Wintermeyer, P. (2023). FnF-BFT: A BFT Protocol with Provable Performance Under Attack. In S. Rajsbaum, A. Balliu, J. Dymude, & D. Olivetti (Eds.), Structural Information and Communication Complexity : 30th International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2023, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 6–9, 2023, Proceedings (pp. 165–198). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_9
Project: CoRaF (2022–2025) -
Towards a Game-Theoretic Security Analysis of Off-Chain Protocols
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Rain, S., Avarikioti, G., Kovacs, L., & Maffei, M. (2023). Towards a Game-Theoretic Security Analysis of Off-Chain Protocols. In 2023 IEEE 36th Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) (pp. 107–122). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSF57540.2023.00003
Projects: Browsec (2018–2024) / CDL-BOT (2020–2025) / LCS (2017–2025) / PROFET (2019–2023) / ViSP (2019–2023) -
Hide & Seek: Privacy-Preserving Rebalancing on Payment Channel Networks
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Avarikioti, G., Pietrzak, K., Salem, I., Schmid, S., Tiwari, S., & Yeo, M. (2022). Hide & Seek: Privacy-Preserving Rebalancing on Payment Channel Networks. In I. Eyal & J. Garay (Eds.), Financial Cryptography and Data Security (pp. 358–373). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18283-9_17
Projects: CoRaF (2022–2025) / ViSP (2019–2023) -
Suborn Channels: Incentives Against Timelock Bribes
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Avarikioti, G., & Thyfronitis Litos, O. S. (2022). Suborn Channels: Incentives Against Timelock Bribes. In Financial Cryptography and Data Security (pp. 488–511). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.34726/3904
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Wiser: Increasing Throughput in Payment Channel Networks with Transaction Aggregation
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Tiwari, S., Yeo, M., Avarikioti, G., Salem, I., Pietrzak, K., & Schmid, S. (2022). Wiser: Increasing Throughput in Payment Channel Networks with Transaction Aggregation. In AFT ’22: Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (pp. 217–231). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3558535.3559775
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Projects: CoRaF (2022–2025) / ViSP (2019–2023)