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Formal Specification of the Cardano Blockchain Ledger, Mechanized in Agda

Authors: Andre Knispel, Orestis Melkonian, James Chapman, Alasdair Hill, Joosep Jääger, William DeMeo, and Ulf Norell

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 118, 5th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC 2024)


Abstract
Blockchain systems comprise critical software that handle substantial monetary funds, rendering them excellent candidates for formal verification. One of their core components is the underlying ledger that does all the accounting: keeping track of transactions and their validity, etc. Unfortunately, previous theoretical studies are typically confined to an idealized setting, while specifications for real implementations are scarce; either the functionality is directly implemented without a proper specification, or at best an informal specification is written on paper. The present work expands beyond prior meta-theoretical investigations of the EUTxO model to encompass the full scale of the Cardano blockchain: our formal specification describes a hierarchy of modular transitions that covers all the intricacies of a realistic blockchain, such as fully expressive smart contracts and decentralized governance. It is mechanized in a proof assistant, thus enjoys a higher standard of rigor: type-checking prevents minor oversights that were frequent in previous informal approaches; key meta-theoretical properties can now be formally proven; it is an executable specification against which the implementation in production is being tested for conformance; and it provides firm foundations for smart contract verification. Apart from a safety net to keep us in check, the formalization also provides a guideline for the ledger design: one informs the other in a symbiotic way, especially in the case of state-of-the-art features like decentralized governance, which is an emerging sub-field of blockchain research that however mandates a more exploratory approach. All the results presented in this paper have been mechanized in the Agda proof assistant and are publicly available. In fact, this document is itself a literate Agda script and all rendered code has been successfully type-checked.

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Andre Knispel, Orestis Melkonian, James Chapman, Alasdair Hill, Joosep Jääger, William DeMeo, and Ulf Norell. Formal Specification of the Cardano Blockchain Ledger, Mechanized in Agda. In 5th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC 2024). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 118, pp. 2:1-2:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{knispel_et_al:OASIcs.FMBC.2024.2,
  author =	{Knispel, Andre and Melkonian, Orestis and Chapman, James and Hill, Alasdair and J\"{a}\"{a}ger, Joosep and DeMeo, William and Norell, Ulf},
  title =	{{Formal Specification of the Cardano Blockchain Ledger, Mechanized in Agda}},
  booktitle =	{5th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC 2024)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:18},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-317-1},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{118},
  editor =	{Bernardo, Bruno and Marmsoler, Diego},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.FMBC.2024.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-198673},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.FMBC.2024.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: blockchain, distributed ledgers, UTxO, Cardano, formal verification, Agda}
}
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Automatic Amortised Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis

Authors: Christoph A. Herrmann, Armelle Bonenfant, Kevin Hammond, Steffen Jost, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, and Robert Pointon

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 6, 7th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET'07) (2007)


Abstract
Our research focuses on formally bounded WCET analysis, where we aim to provide absolute guarantees on execution time bounds. In this paper, we describe how amortisation can be used to improve the quality of the results that are obtained from a fully-automatic and formally guaranteed WCET analysis, by delivering analysis results that are parameterised on specific input patterns and which take account of relations between these patterns. We have implemented our approach to give a tool that is capable of predicting execution costs for a typical embedded system development platform, a Renesas board with a Renesas M32C/85U processor. We show that not only is the amortised approach applicable in theory, but that it can be applied automatically to yield good WCET results.

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Christoph A. Herrmann, Armelle Bonenfant, Kevin Hammond, Steffen Jost, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, and Robert Pointon. Automatic Amortised Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis. In 7th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET'07). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 6, pp. 1-6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2007)


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@InProceedings{herrmann_et_al:OASIcs.WCET.2007.1186,
  author =	{Herrmann, Christoph A. and Bonenfant, Armelle and Hammond, Kevin and Jost, Steffen and Loidl, Hans-Wolfgang and Pointon, Robert},
  title =	{{Automatic Amortised Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis}},
  booktitle =	{7th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET'07)},
  pages =	{1--6},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-05-7},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2007},
  volume =	{6},
  editor =	{Rochange, Christine},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2007.1186},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-11868},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2007.1186},
  annote =	{Keywords: Amortisation, functional programming, performance measurement, static analysis, type and effect systems, worst-case execution time}
}
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Towards Formally Verifiable WCET Analysis for a Functional Programming Language

Authors: Kevin Hammond, Christian Ferdinand, Reinhold Heckmann, Roy Dyckhoff, Martin Hofman, Steffen Jost, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Greg Michaelson, Robert Pointon, Norman Scaife, Jocelyn Sérot, and Andy Wallace

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 4, 6th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET'06) (2006)


Abstract
This paper describes ongoing work aimed at the construction of formal cost models and analyses to yield verifiable guarantees of resource usage in the context of real-time embedded systems. Our work is conducted in terms of the domain-specific language Hume, a language that combines functional programming for computations with finitestate automata for specifying reactive systems. We outline an approach in which high-level information derived from source-code analysis can be combined with worst-case execution time information obtained from high quality abstract interpretation of low-level binary code.

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Kevin Hammond, Christian Ferdinand, Reinhold Heckmann, Roy Dyckhoff, Martin Hofman, Steffen Jost, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Greg Michaelson, Robert Pointon, Norman Scaife, Jocelyn Sérot, and Andy Wallace. Towards Formally Verifiable WCET Analysis for a Functional Programming Language. In 6th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET'06). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 4, pp. 1-6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2006)


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@InProceedings{hammond_et_al:OASIcs.WCET.2006.677,
  author =	{Hammond, Kevin and Ferdinand, Christian and Heckmann, Reinhold and Dyckhoff, Roy and Hofman, Martin and Jost, Steffen and Loidl, Hans-Wolfgang and Michaelson, Greg and Pointon, Robert and Scaife, Norman and S\'{e}rot, Jocelyn and Wallace, Andy},
  title =	{{Towards Formally Verifiable WCET Analysis for a Functional Programming Language}},
  booktitle =	{6th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET'06)},
  pages =	{1--6},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-03-3},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{4},
  editor =	{Mueller, Frank},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2006.677},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-6773},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2006.677},
  annote =	{Keywords: Worst-case execution time, functional programming, Hume, cost model, asynchronous, finite state machine}
}
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