This file was created by the TYPO3 extension bib --- Timezone: UTC Creation date: 2025-04-19 Creation time: 05-35-50 --- Number of references 1 inproceedings 2019_wagner_dispute_resolution 2019 5 Blockchain systems promise to mediate interactions of mutually distrusting parties without a trusted third party. However, protocols with full smart contract-based security are either limited in functionality or complex, with high costs for secured interactions. This observation leads to the development of protocol-specific schemes to avoid costly dispute resolution in case all participants remain honest. In this paper, we introduce SmartJudge, an extensible generalization of this trend for smart contract-based two-party protocols. SmartJudge relies on a protocol-independent mediator smart contract that moderates two-party interactions and only consults protocol-specific verifier smart contracts in case of a dispute. This way, SmartJudge avoids verification costs in absence of disputes and sustains interaction confidentiality among honest parties. We implement verifier smart contracts for cross-blockchain trades and exchanging digital goods and show that SmartJudge can reduce costs by 46-50% and 22% over current state of the art, respectively. Ethereum,Bitcoin,smart contracts,two-party protocols,dispute resolution,cross-blockchain trades mynedata, impact-digital, rfc https://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/fileadmin/papers/2019/2019-wagner-dispute.pdf IEEE IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency 2019 (ICBC 2019) Seoul, South Korea IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency 2019 English 10.1109/BLOC.2019.8751312 1 EricWagner AchimVölker FrederikFuhrmann RomanMatzutt KlausWehrle