4 papers
Lyte Quorum: Off-Chain Ready Smart Contract Hosted with Choice
Hao Hao, Dahlia Malkhi, Maofan Yin +1
This paper introduces Lyquor, a decentralized platform that reimagines blockchain infrastructure through a service-centric model where nodes selectively host smart contracts (calle…
Ordered Consensus with Equal Opportunity
Yunhao Zhang, Haobin Ni, Soumya Basu +6
The specification of state machine replication (SMR) has no requirement on the final total order of commands. In blockchains based on SMR, however, order matters, since different o…
On Orchestrating Parallel Broadcasts for Distributed Ledgers
Peiyao Sheng, Chenyuan Wu, Dahlia Malkhi +4
This paper introduces and develops the concept of ``ticketing'', through which atomic broadcasts are orchestrated by nodes in a distributed system. The paper studies different tick…
Lessons from HotStuff
Dahlia Malkhi, Maofan Yin
This article will take you on a journey to the core of blockchains, their Byzantine consensus engine, where HotStuff emerged as a new algorithmic foundation for the classical Byzan…