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How to Trust Strangers: Composition of Byzantine Quorum Systems
Orestis Alpos, Christian Cachin, Luca Zanolini
Trust is the basis of any distributed, fault-tolerant, or secure system. A trust assumption specifies the failures that a system, such as a blockchain network, can tolerate and det…
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On the Synchronization Power of Token Smart Contracts
Orestis Alpos, Christian Cachin, Giorgia Azzurra Marson +1
Modern blockchains support a variety of distributed applications beyond cryptocurrencies, including smart contracts -- which let users execute arbitrary code in a distributed and d…