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# Confidential Assets

* Xing Li, Yi Zheng, Kunxian Xia, Tongcheng Sun, and John Beyler. Phantom: An efficient privacy protocol using zk-snarks based on smart contracts. Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2020/156, 2020. <https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/156>.
* Yi Zheng, Howard Ye, Patrick Dai, Tongcheng Sun, and Vladislav Gelfer. Confidential assets on mimblewimble. Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2019/1435, 2019. <https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1435>.


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