2 papers
cs.GT2026
Price of Censorship: Censorship Resistance and Throughput under Rational Concurrent Proposers
Aditya Saraf, Ioannis Kaklamanis, Giannis Kaklamanis +2
Censorship resistance is the defining advantage of blockchains over their centralized counterparts. Yet block proposers censor transactions for many reasons, from legal consequence…
cs.DC2026
Cadence: Extreme Pipelining with Multiple Concurrent Proposers
Kushal Babel, Fatima Elsheimy, Lioba Heimbach +6
We present Cadence, a Byzantine fault-tolerant multi-proposer consensus protocol with arbitrarily low block intervals, optimal resilience, and optimal fast-path latency. Cadence di…