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Bullshark: The Partially Synchronous Version
Alexander Spiegelman, Neil Giridharan, Alberto Sonnino +1
The purpose of this manuscript is to describe the deterministic partially synchronous version of Bullshark in a simple and clean way. This result is published in CCS 2022, however,…
Block-STM: Scaling Blockchain Execution by Turning Ordering Curse to a Performance Blessing
Rati Gelashvili, Alexander Spiegelman, Zhuolun Xiang +5
Block-STM is a parallel execution engine for smart contracts, built around the principles of Software Transactional Memory. Transactions are grouped in blocks, and every execution…
Make Every Word Count: Adaptive BA with Fewer Words
Shir Cohen, Idit Keidar, Alexander Spiegelman
Byzantine Agreement is a key component in many distributed systems. While Dolev and Reischuk have proven a long time ago that quadratic communication complexity is necessary for wo…
Bullshark: DAG BFT Protocols Made Practical
Alexander Spiegelman, Neil Giridharan, Alberto Sonnino +1
We present Bullshark, the first directed acyclic graph (DAG) based asynchronous Byzantine Atomic Broadcast protocol that is optimized for the common synchronous case. Like previous…