Proof of Complete Knowledge (PoCK) aims to prevent bribery attacks by ensuring real control over voting keys.
A group of researchers from Cornell University is investigating potential threats that could turn into “dark” voting systems in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).
This group is formed by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and PhD students Mahimna Kelkar, Kushal Babel, Philip Daian and James Austgen. Their work revolves around how to mitigate an imminent threat to decentralization as DAOs go mainstream: unified attacks against protocols through smart contracts bribery.
During the Science of Blockchain Conference held at Columbia University in early August, Cointelegraph spoke with Mahimna Kelkar about the group’s research on proofs of complete knowledge (CK) — a new cryptographic notion they introduced in 2023.
