3 papers
cs.DC2025
HYDRA: Breaking the Global Ordering Barrier in Multi-BFT Consensus
Hanzheng Lyu, Shaokang Xie, Jianyu Niu +5
Multi-Byzantine Fault Tolerant (Multi-BFT) consensus, which runs multiple BFT instances in parallel, has recently emerged as a promising approach to overcome the leader bottleneck…
cs.CR2025
Demystifying Private Transactions and Their Impact in PoW and PoS Ethereum
Xingyu Lyu, Mengya Zhang, Xiaokuan Zhang +3
In Ethereum, private transactions, a specialized transaction type employed to evade public Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network broadcasting, remain largely unexplored, particularly in the c…
cs.CR2024
MECURY: Practical Cross-Chain Exchange via Trusted Hardware
Xiaoqing Wen, Quanbi Feng, Jianyu Niu +2
The proliferation of blockchain-backed cryptocurrencies has sparked the need for cross-chain exchanges of diverse digital assets. Unfortunately, current exchanges suffer from high…