The Math Behind Blockchain Scheduling and Transaction Fee Mechanisms

Table of Links

Abstract and 1. Introduction

1.1 Our Approach

1.2 Our Results & Roadmap

1.3 Related Work

  1. Model and Warmup and 2.1 Blockchain Model

    2.2 The Miner

    2.3 Game Model

    2.4 Warm Up: The Greedy Allocation Function

  2. The Deterministic Case and 3.1 Deterministic Upper Bound

    3.2 The Immediacy-Biased Class Of Allocation Function

  3. The Randomized Case

  4. Discussion and References

A: Missing Proofs for Sections 2, 3



















We now note that a few facts that hold true for any n when x1 ≥ ℓ + ϵ:























We separate to several subcases:



















B Missing Proofs for Section 4


We now compare ALG and ADV ’s performance in different steps along the adversary schedule, separating the steps before n and the last two steps.


Step i


ALG expected performance:



Notice that this amortization of considering the i + 1 is only relevant for ADV, as ALG in such case necessarily has no transactions remaining to choose from at step i + 1.



where the last transition is since for any 0 ≤ λ ≤ 1, the expression



We now move on to analyze steps n, n + 1.


ALG expected performance at step n, n + 1:



As the base case, consider k = n. Then,



For the inductive step,



We thus need to show that







With this potential function, we can thus write at step i,


C Glossary

A summary of all symbols and acronyms used in the paper.

C.1 Symbols

ψ Transaction schedule function.


x Allocation function.


B Predefined maximal block-size, in bytes.


λ Miner discount factor.


ϕ Transaction fee of some transaction, in tokens.


T Miner planning horizon.


ℓ Immediacy ratio for our non-myopic allocation rule.


µ TTL of past transactions.


α Miner’s relative mining power, as a fraction. u Miner revenue.


t TTL of a transaction.


tx A transaction.

C.2 Acronyms

mempool memory pool


PoS Proof-of-Stake


PoW Proof-of-Work


QoS quality of service


TFM transaction fee mechanism


TTL time to live


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Authors:

(1) Yotam Gafni, Weizmann Institute (yotam.gafni@gmail.com);

(2) Aviv Yaish, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (aviv.yaish@mail.huji.ac.il).

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This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license.

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[2] The argument of [CCFJST06] is done by showing conditions that hold for any fixed x ∈ [−1, 0], and so they hold for any fixed x ∈ [−λ, 0] as well.

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