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Modeling Resources in Permissionless Longest-chain Total-order Broadcast
Sarah Azouvi, Christian Cachin, Duc V. Le +2
Blockchain protocols implement total-order broadcast in a permissionless setting, where processes can freely join and leave. In such a setting, to safeguard against Sybil attacks,…
Quorum Systems in Permissionless Network
Christian Cachin, Giuliano Losa, Luca Zanolini
Fail-prone systems, and their quorum systems, are useful tools for the design of distributed algorithms. However, fail-prone systems as studied so far require every process to know…
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…
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…