SBIR Phase I: Lightweight Scalable Auctions for Decentralized Martketplaces and Beyond

SBIR 第一阶段：适用于去中心化市场及其他领域的轻量级可扩展拍卖

• 批准号: 2212788
• 负责人: Ruihan Wang
• 金额: $ 25.28万
• 依托单位: LIGERO, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2212788&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Lightweight; Scalable; Auctions

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to increase the security and privacy controls in today's financial (crypto or traditional) exchanges and auction platforms. Currently, such exchanges suffer from information leakage, meaning that third parties can see aspects of the bidding or auction processes and this ability allows them to gain an advantage or unfairly outbid (i.e. front-run) the competition. A related issue is the lack of transparency in exchanges, which often results from their efforts to limit information leakage. The lack of transparency has led to significant issues at several centralized exchanges. This project proposes to build an innovative decentralized exchange that will empower traders with a fair and efficient marketplace. The proposed solution will employ state-of-the-art cryptographic protocols based on secure multiparty computation (MPC) to guarantee the necessary confidentiality without compromising transparency. The project is not bound by the tradeoff between security and transparency - it will seek to provide both in an efficient system. Furthermore, the tools developed under this project will have potential beyond the financial sector, including improving methods to securely and privately operate with sensitive data. This SBIR Phase I project investigates the design of a decentralized marketplace by scaling secure multiparty computation (MPC) to a large number of parties. MPC provides a decentralized solution for executing an auction that is automatically front-running resistant as the protocol only allows the winning bid (or bidder) to be revealed to anyone. The proposed solution will address a key challenge of developing a concretely efficient mechanism to execute the MPC off-chain and certify the results on-chain with minimal transaction fees while guaranteeing maximal security. The proposed solution will take advantage of quantum secure primitives and star network topology to get robust security and minimal communication overhead. In this project, the first application to validate the designed auction MPC will be a decentralized Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplace and instantaneous withdrawal mechanism from L2 to L1.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是增加当今财务（加密或传统）交易所和拍卖平台中的安全性和隐私控制。 当前，此类交流遭受信息泄漏的困扰，这意味着第三方可以看到投标或拍卖过程的各个方面，并且这种能力使他们能够获得优势或不公平的竞争（即前进）竞争。 一个相关的问题是交易所缺乏透明度，这通常是由于限制信息泄漏的努力而导致的。 缺乏透明度导致了几个集中交流的重大问题。 该项目建议建立一个创新的分散交易所，以使交易者能够以公平而有效的市场为能力。 提出的解决方案将基于安全的多方计算（MPC）采用最新的加密协议，以确保必要的机密性而不会损害透明度。 该项目不受安全性和透明度之间的权衡的约束 - 它将寻求在有效的系统中提供同时提供。此外，该项目下开发的工具将在金融部门以外具有潜力，包括改进使用敏感数据安全和私人运行的方法。 该SBIR I期项目通过将安全多方计算（MPC）扩展到大量各方来研究分散市场的设计。 MPC提供了一个分散的解决方案，用于执行自动抗抗药性的拍卖，因为该协议仅允许获胜的出价（或投标者）向任何人揭示。提出的解决方案将解决一个关键挑战，即开发一种有效的机制来执行MPC离链，并通过最少的交易费用在链上证明结果，同时保证最大安全性。拟议的解决方案将利用量子安全的基础和星网拓扑，以获得稳健的安全性和最小的通信开销。在该项目中，首次验证设计拍卖MPC的应用程序将是一个分散的非遗体令牌（NFT）市场，并从L2到L1迅速撤回机制。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的智力功能和广泛的影响来评估Criteria的智力优点和广泛影响。