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Zexe: Enabling Decentralized Private Computation

A model for private computation over records. Each record has a birth predicate and a death predicate. A transaction proves that some records died and others were born, without showing which, or showing the data.

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Authors: Sean Bowe, Alessandro Chiesa, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Pratyush Mishra and Howard Wu
Date: 2020
Publisher: Sean Bowe, Alessandro Chiesa, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Pratyush Mishra and Howard Wu
Version: Source cited by the 2020 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0076
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Bowe, S., Chiesa, A., Green, M., Miers, I., Mishra, P., & Wu, H. (2020). Zexe: Enabling Decentralized Private Computation. Sean Bowe, Alessandro Chiesa, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Pratyush Mishra and Howard Wu. https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/962

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@techreport{zexe2020,
  title = {Zexe: Enabling Decentralized Private Computation},
  author = {Sean Bowe, Alessandro Chiesa, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Pratyush Mishra and Howard Wu},
  year = {2020},
  institution = {Sean Bowe, Alessandro Chiesa, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Pratyush Mishra and Howard Wu},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/962},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/zexe}
}

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AU  - Pratyush Mishra
AU  - Howard Wu
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