2 papers
cs.CR2026
Beluga: Block Synchronization for BFT Consensus Protocols
Tasos Kichidis, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Arun Koshy +4
Modern high-throughput BFT consensus protocols use streamlined push-pull mechanisms to disseminate blocks and keep happy-path performance optimal. Yet state-of-the-art designs lack…
cs.DC2025
Mysticeti: Reaching the Limits of Latency with Uncertified DAGs
Kushal Babel, Andrey Chursin, George Danezis +5
We introduce Mysticeti-C, the first DAG-based Byzantine consensus protocol to achieve the lower bounds of latency of 3 message rounds. Since Mysticeti-C is built over DAGs it also…