Patents Assigned to Blockstream Corporation
  • Patent number: 11310060
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for using equivalent secret values across different elliptic curves. For example, a transferring party may wish to exchange a first asset on a first blockchain with a recipient for a second asset on a second blockchain. After exchanging sets of public keys with a recipient, a transferring party may generate a zero-knowledge proof and public keys associated with a selected bitstring. The recipient may then verify the proof, which shows that private keys associated with the public keys associated with the bitstring are both derived from the bitstring without revealing the bitstring itself. Once validity of the private keys has been established, the transferring party may publish a second signature to claim the second asset. The published second signature may then be used to publish a first signature (generated using the selected bitstring) on the first blockchain to claim the first asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Blockstream Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Poelstra, Jonas Nick
  • Patent number: 11080665
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for encrypting amounts and asset types of a verifiable transaction on a blockchain ledger. For each asset, an asset tag is blinded, multiplied by the amount of the asset, and the product is blinded again to create an encrypted amount of the asset. Both encrypted amount of the asset and a corresponding generated output value are within a value range, and the sum of the encrypted input value and the encrypted output value equals zero. Rangeproofs for each of the encrypted output values are associated with a different public key. Each public key is signed with a ring signature based on a public key of a recipient. A second ring signature is used to verify each asset tag, where the private key of the second ring signature for each asset is a difference between a first blinding value and an output coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Blockstream Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Poelstra, Gregory Maxwell, Adam Back, Pieter Wuille, Mark Friedenbach
  • Patent number: 11062303
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for encrypting an amount transacted on a blockchain ledger, while preserving the transaction's ability to be verified. A blinding amount is added to an input value, and an output value is generated and encrypted. Both the input value and the output value are within a value range, where a sum of any two values within the range does not exceed an overflow threshold. The sum of the encrypted input value and the encrypted output value may equal zero. Rangeproofs associated with each of the input value and the output value are generated. The rangeproofs prove that the input value and the output value fall within the value range, and each rangeproof may be associated with a different public key. Each public key may be signed with a ring signature based on a public key of a recipient in the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Blockstream Corporation
    Inventor: Gregory Maxwell
  • Patent number: 10812274
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for transferring an asset from a parent chain to a sidechain. A simplified payment verification (SPV) proof associated with the parent chain asset may be generated. The SPV proof may include a threshold level of work. The SPV proof associated with the parent chain asset may be validated, and a sidechain asset corresponding to the parent chain asset may be generated. If no reorganization proof is detected, the sidechain asset is released. To redeem the sidechain asset in the parent chain, a SPV proof associated with the sidechain asset may be generated. The parent chain may validate the SPV proof associated with the sidechain asset. The parent chain asset associated with the sidechain asset may be held for a second predetermined contest period. The parent chain asset may then be released if no reorganization proof associated with the sidechain asset is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Blockstream Corporation
    Inventors: Adam Back, Gregory Maxwell, Matt Corallo, Luke Dashjr, Mark Friedenbach, Andrew Poelstra, Jorge Timon, Pieter Wuille
  • Patent number: 10805090
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for transferring and verifying the transfer of an asset from a limited-participant side chain back to a main blockchain. A public difference, associated with a secret difference, is determined as a difference between a main blockchain address and the public offline key of a transferring participant. The public difference is used, along with each participant public online key, to generate a ring signature key for each participant. A ring signature is then generated over the ring signature keys, based on the public online keys and a set of uniform random scalars (each associated with a participant public online key). The main blockchain address, a first coefficient from the ring signature, and the uniform random scalars are then published. When verified, the published ring signature shows that the transferring participant has control of the main blockchain address and the private offline key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Blockstream Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Poelstra, Glenn Willen, Gregory Maxwell, Gregory Sanders, Jonas Nick, Matt Corollo