Quentin Kniep
Distributed Computing Group
Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK)
Department Electrical Engineering (D-ITET)
Office ETZ G 95
ETH Zurich
Gloriastrasse 35
8092 Zurich
Switzerland
| phone | +41 44 63 25663 |
| fax | +41 44 63 21036 |
Publications
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Pilotfish: Distributed Execution for Scalable Blockchains
Quentin Kniep, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Igor Zablotchi and Nuda Zhang.
Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2025 (FC), Miyakojima, Japan, April 2025.
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Quantifying Liveness and Safety of Avalanche's Snowball
Quentin Kniep, Maxime Laval, Jakub Sliwinski and Roger Wattenhofer.
8th International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology (CBT), Bydgoszcz, Poland, September 2024.
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Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Aggregate Signatures
Quentin Kniep and Roger Wattenhofer.
19th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Singapore, July 2024.
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Dissecting the EIP-2930 Optional Access Lists
Lioba Heimbach, Quentin Kniep, Yann Vonlanthen, Roger Wattenhofer and Patrick Züst.
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), Willemstad, Curaçao, March 2024.
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Halting the Solana Blockchain with Epsilon Stake (Best paper nominee)
Quentin Kniep, Fabian Schaich, Jakub Sliwinski and Roger Wattenhofer.
25th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), Chennai, India, January 2024.
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DeFi and NFTs Hinder Blockchain Scalability
Lioba Heimbach, Quentin Kniep, Yann Vonlanthen and Roger Wattenhofer.
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), Bol, Brač, Croatia, May 2023.
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 | An Empirical Analysis of Polymarket [confidential] | B | Lioba Heimbach, Quentin Kniep | HS 24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Mangrove: Fast and Parallelizable Smart Contract Agreement [confidential] | M | Yann Vonlanthen, Quentin Kniep | FS 24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Dawn of an Era: How Layer 2 Solutions Change the Workload on Ethereum Blockchains [confidential] | M | Lioba Heimbach, Quentin Kniep | HS 23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.png) | Analyzing the Use and Potential of Transaction Access Lists in Ethereum [confidential] | S | Yann Vonlanthen, Quentin Kniep | FS 23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Analyzing the Solana Blockchain [confidential] | B | Quentin Kniep, Jakub Sliwinski | HS 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Predicting Future Events via Markets | S | Robin Fritsch, Quentin Kniep | HS 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Clustering Ethereum Addresses | S | Lioba Heimbach, Quentin Kniep | FS 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Exploring Game Engine Architecture and Building an Experimental Voxel Renderer with Rust and Vulkan | B | Quentin Kniep | FS 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||