References

Arbitrum / Orbit architecture

1. Offchain Labs. “AnyTrust Protocol (Data Availability Committee).” 2025.  Link

2. Offchain Labs. “Configure a Data Availability Committee (DAC).” 2025.  Link

3. Offchain Labs. “BoLD — A Gentle Introduction.” 2025.  Link  

4. Offchain Labs. “BoLD — Technical Deep Dive.” 2025.  Link

5. Offchain Labs. “The Sequencer & Censorship Resistance (Delayed Inbox / Force-Inclusion).” 2025.  Link

6. Offchain Labs. “Transaction Lifecycle (InboxTools & Delayed Inbox).” 2025.  Link

7. Offchain Labs. “Timeboost — A Gentle Introduction.” 2025.  Link

8. Offchain Labs. “Stylus — A Gentle Introduction.” 2025.  Link

9. Offchain Labs. “Stylus Rust SDK Overview (audit notes, SDK details).” 2025.  Link

1. Networking & presence signals

   1. Android Open Source Project. “Passpoint (Hotspot 2.0) Overview.” 2025.  Link

   2. Wireless Broadband Alliance. “WBA OpenRoaming™ Standards.” 2023.  Link

   3. Bluetooth SIG. “Bluetooth® Core 5.4 — Technical Overview.” 2023.  Link

   4. RTCM. “Published Standards & Publications (RTK/RTCM 3 family).” 2023–2024.  Link

   5. RFC 5905. “Network Time Protocol Version 4 (NTPv4).” 2010.  Link

   6. IEEE 1588-2019. “Precision Time Protocol (PTP).” 2019.  Link

2. Security, privacy, and compliance

   1. RFC 8446. “The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3.” 2018.  Link

   2. NIST SP 800-207. “Zero Trust Architecture.” 2020.  Link

   3. Regulation (EU) 2016/679. “General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).” 2016.  Link

   4. AICPA. “2017 Trust Services Criteria (with 2022 Points of Focus).” 2022.  Link

   5. NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5. “Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems & Organizations.” 2020.  Link

   6. FedRAMP Program Management Office. “Rev 5 Transition Guide.” 2023.  Link

3. Cryptography, ZK, and PQC (as referenced in the paper)

   1. Grassi et al. “Poseidon: A New Hash Function for Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems.” USENIX Security, 2021.  Link

   2. Stanford ACG. “Bulletproofs — Short Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs without Trusted Setup.” 2018.  Link

   3. Groth, J. “Groth16 overview and resources.” 2025.  Link

   4. IRTF CFRG. “BLS Signatures (Internet-Draft).” 2022–2025.  Link

   5. NIST FIPS 203. “Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM / Kyber).” 2024.  Link

   6. NIST FIPS 204. “Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Standard (ML-DSA / Dilithium).” 2024.  Link