Mining CryptoNight-Haven on the Varium C1100 Blockchain Accelerator Card
Lucas Bex, Furkan Turan, Michiel Van Beirendonck, Ingrid Verbauwhede

TL;DR
This paper introduces the first hardware accelerator for CryptoNight-Haven on the Xilinx Varium C1100, aiming to improve mining throughput and energy efficiency compared to CPU and GPU solutions.
Contribution
It presents a novel coprocessor design for CryptoNight-Haven, utilizing pipelined computation and HBM on an FPGA-based blockchain accelerator card.
Findings
Increased hash computation throughput
Enhanced energy efficiency over CPU and GPU miners
Successful implementation of a pipelined FPGA-based accelerator
Abstract
Cryptocurrency mining is an energy-intensive process that presents a prime candidate for hardware acceleration. This work-in-progress presents the first coprocessor design for the ASIC-resistant CryptoNight-Haven Proof of Work (PoW) algorithm. We construct our hardware accelerator as a Xilinx Run Time (XRT) RTL kernel targeting the Xilinx Varium C1100 Blockchain Accelerator Card. The design employs deeply pipelined computation and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) for the underlying scratchpad data. We aim to compare our accelerator to existing CPU and GPU miners to show increased throughput and energy efficiency of its hash computations
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Malware Detection Techniques · Cryptographic Implementations and Security · Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security
