SoK: Tools for Game Theoretic Models of Security for Cryptocurrencies

Understand

Cryptocurrencies have garnered much attention in recent years, both from the academic community and industry.

• One interesting aspect of cryptocurrencies is their explicit consideration of incentives at the protocol level.
• Understanding how to incorporate this into the models used to design cryptocurrencies has motivated a large body of work, yet many open problems still exist and current systems rarely deal with incentive related problems well.
• This issue arises due to the gap between Cryptography and Distributed Systems security, which deals with traditional security problems that ignore the explicit consideration of incentives, and Game Theory, which deals best with situations involving incentives.