Proving and Rewarding Client Diversity to Strengthen Resilience of Blockchain Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18401v2
• Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:06:59 GMT
• Title: Proving and Rewarding Client Diversity to Strengthen Resilience of Blockchain Networks
• Authors: Javier Ron, Zheyuan He, Martin Monperrus,
• Abstract summary: Client diversity is a cornerstone of blockchain resilience, yet most networks suffer from a dangerously skewed distribution of client implementations.<n>This monoculture exposes the network to very risky scenarios, such as massive financial losses in the event of a majority client failure.<n>We present a novel framework that combines verifiable execution and economic incentives to provably identify and reward the use of minority clients.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Client diversity is a cornerstone of blockchain resilience, yet most networks suffer from a dangerously skewed distribution of client implementations. This monoculture exposes the network to very risky scenarios, such as massive financial losses in the event of a majority client failure. In this paper, we present a novel framework that combines verifiable execution and economic incentives to provably identify and reward the use of minority clients, thereby promoting a healthier, more robust ecosystem. Our approach leverages state-of-the-art verifiable computation (zkVMs and TEEs) to generate cryptographic proofs of client execution, which are then verified on-chain. We design and implement an end-to-end prototype of verifiable client diversity in the context of Ethereum, by modifying the popular Lighthouse client and by deploying our novel diversity-aware reward protocol. Through comprehensive experiments, we quantify the practicality of our approach, from overheads of proof production and verification to the effectiveness of the incentive mechanism. This work demonstrates, for the first time, a practical and economically viable path to encourage and ensure provable client diversity in blockchain networks. Our findings inform the design of future protocols that seek to maximize the resilience of decentralized systems

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