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Publications
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**Papers:**

* Jeff Burdges, Alfonso Cevallos, Peter Czaban, Rob Habermeier, Syed Hosseini, Fabio Lama, Handan Kılınç Alper, Ximin Luo, Fatemeh Shirazi, Alistair Stewart, Gavin Wood, `Overview of Polkadot and its Design Considerations <http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13456>`_, first version, 29 May 2020. 

* Jeff Burdges and Luca de Feo, `Delay Encryption <https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/638>`_, in submission. 

* Alfonso Cevallos and Alistair Stewart, `Validator Election in Nominated Proof-of-Stake <https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12990>`_, in progress.

* Handan Kılınç Alper, `Consensus on Clock in Universally Composable Timing Model <https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1348>`_, in submission. 

* Alistair Stewart and Lefteris Kokoris Kogias, `GRANDPA: A finality Gadget <https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01560>`_, in progress. 


**Posters:**

* Jeff Burdges, Handan Kılınç Alper, Alistair Stewart, `Availability and Validity <https://github.com/w3f/research/blob/master/docs/papers/AVAILABILITY%20AND%20VALIDITY%20OF%20DATA%20IN%20SHARDED%20BLOCKCHAINS_low.pdf>`_, Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), February 2020. 

* Jeff Burdges, "Assessing or incentivising correct mixing without authorities", Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), February 2020. 

* Alistair Stewart, "GRANDPA: A Finality Gadget", ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2019.

**Blog Posts:**

* Fatemeh Shirazi, Logan Saether, Alistair Stewart, Rob Habermeier, Gavin Wood, `Polkadot’s Messaging Scheme <https://medium.com/web3foundation/polkadots-messaging-scheme-b1ec560908b7>`_, Medium, Web3 Foundation, 14/01/2020. 

* Alfonso Cevallos, `How Nominated Proof-of-Stake will work in Polkadot <https://medium.com/web3foundation/how-nominated-proof-of-stake-will-work-in-polkadot-377d70c6bd43>`_, Medium, Web3 Foundation, 12/04/2019.

* Fatemeh Shirazi, Jeffrey Burdges, Edward Thomson, and Ignasi Albero, `Messaging Protocol Workshop Outcomes <https://medium.com/web3foundation/messaging-protocol-workshop-outcomes-7a827d02a81a>`_, Medium, Web3 Foundation/Status/Validity Labs meetup review, 21/02/2019.