Network & Settlement Engineering Intern

Project background

The Future Resilient Internet Exchange (FIREx) is a marketplace for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection built at the Singapore-ETH Centre, the Singapore-based research institute of ETH Zurich. FIREx standardizes and tokenizes DDoS protection infrastructure and provides market for the process of buying and selling those tokens and the settlement up to their provisioning. We collaborate with three industry partners across Singapore and Europe to develop this technology into areal-world product.

The settlement layer is a real Ethereum-compatible PoS blockchain, integrating with the APIs of DDoS defence providers, regional internet registries, and internet routing registries. The network layer on top of that are BGP and GRE tunnels that must hold during DDoS attack is in progress.

Job description

• Define and implement a scalable standard for clean-traffic forwarding using automated GRE tunneli...