2 papers
cs.DC2026
Ambulance: saving BFT through racing
Neil Giridharan, Shubham Mishra, Lorenzo Alvisi +5
Today's practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) state machine replication deployments are vulnerable to slowdowns. The main culprit is timeouts. Aggressive timeouts spuriously tri…
cs.DC2025
ChonkyBFT: Consensus Protocol of ZKsync
Bruno França, Denis Kolegov, Igor Konnov +1
We present ChonkyBFT, a partially-synchronous Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocol used in the ZKsync system. The proposed protocol is a hybrid protocol inspired by FA…