A3
Rate Limiting Nullifiers (RLN)
Spam & Sybil Resistance Implementation
Description
A ZK gadget for decentralized spam protection that financially slashes rate-limit violators by revealing their secret key upon double-publishing.
Relationships
| Target | Type | Note |
|---|---|---|
| P4 | benefits | Provides Sybil resistance in anonymous overlay networks. |
| P8 | benefits | Economic deterrence against resource exhaustion DoS. |
| P2 | benefits | Prevents gossip flooding without requiring node identities. |
| P7 | hurts | Requires smart contract integration and Merkle tree state tracking. |
Open questions
- Optimizing Merkle tree updates for high-throughput validators.
- Slashing mechanism automation on-chain.
References
Relationships
| Dir | Target | Type |
|---|---|---|
| → | P4 Sybil Resistance | benefits |
| → | P8 Economic Deterrence | benefits |
| → | P2 Bandwidth Overhead | benefits |
| → | P7 Implementation Complexity | hurts |
| ← | A1 ZK Proof of Validator (ZK-PoV) | benefits from |