Protocol Design
If you like applying Protocol Design, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- DesignExpertNew
Design an End-to-End Encrypted Messaging Protocol
Read the Signal protocol specifications (X3DH, Double Ratchet) and the team's current architecture (server-stored unencrypted messages). Design an E2EE protocol covering: identi…
- Applied Cryptography
- Protocol Design
- Rust
Applied Cryptography - DesignExpertNew
Design a Cross-Chain Bridge Protocol with Honest Threat Model
Read the Vitalik 'cross-chain interoperability' essay and survey 3 existing bridge designs (lock-and-mint, atomic-swap, optimistic-rollup-native). Design your protocol around a …
- Blockchain Protocols
- Smart Contracts
- Solidity
Blockchain and Decentralized Systems Engineering - CodeExpertNew
Implement Threshold Signatures for a Multi-Sig Custody Service
Read the FROST IETF draft (draft-irtf-cfrg-frost) and the underlying Schnorr signature scheme on the secp256k1 curve. Implement the FROST distributed key generation (DKG) and 3-…
- Applied Cryptography
- Threshold Signatures
- Rust
Applied Cryptography - CodeExpertNew
Implement a Proof-of-Stake Consensus Mechanism in Rust
Read the Casper FFG paper (Buterin + Griffith, 2017) and design a simplified PoS implementation in Rust: 21 validators, 32-slot epochs, two-phase finality (justify, then finaliz…
- Consensus Algorithms
- Blockchain Protocols
- Rust
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