US 12,074,976 B2
Consensus layer architecture for maintaining security with reduced processing power dependency in untrusted decentralized computing platforms
Dan Boneh, San Francisco, CA (US); Krzysztof Pietrzak, San Francisco, CA (US); Bram Cohen, San Francisco, CA (US); Lipa Long, San Francisco, CA (US); Richard Kiss, San Francisco, CA (US); Alex Wice, San Francisco, CA (US); Mariano Sorgente, San Francisco, CA (US); Benedikt Bunz, San Francisco, CA (US); and Ben Fisch, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Chia Network Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Chia Network Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/116,128.
Application 18/116,128 is a continuation of application No. 17/489,480, filed on Sep. 29, 2021, granted, now 11,621,847.
Application 17/489,480 is a continuation of application No. 15/931,463, filed on May 13, 2020, granted, now 11,165,582, issued on Nov. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/850,221, filed on May 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0283474 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 9/3218 (2013.01) [H04L 9/3239 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05); H04L 2209/56 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
store a block of a blockchain data structure, the block comprising:
verification information comprising:
a proof-of-space based on a first verifiable delay function output in a preceding block of the blockchain data structure; and
a second verifiable delay function output based on a preceding proof-of-space in the preceding block; and
a data payload associated with the verification information.