5 papers
Fast Tendermint: Speeding Up a Foundational Consensus Protocol
Preston Vander Vos, Daniel Cason
Tendermint is among the most widely studied and deployed Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols, owing in part to its native leader-rotation mechanism that subsumes com…
AMP: Arc Multi-Proposer Protocol with Bounded Inclusion Guarantees
Daniel Cason, Gordon Liao, Sergio Mena +5
Blockchain systems that settle financial transactions face a structural tension: the single validator that assembles each block holds unilateral power over transaction inclusion an…
Concave is the New Linear: The Impossibility of Anti-Plutocratic DAO Governance
Austin Bennett, Preston Vander Vos, Duc V. Le +1
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) run protocol governance by letting token holders vote on proposals. The dominant rule, voting power proportional to wallet balance, co…
BlueBottle: Fast and Robust Blockchains through Subsystem Specialization
Preston Vander Vos, Alberto Sonnino, Giorgos Tsimos +2
Blockchain consensus faces a trilemma of security, latency, and decentralization. High-throughput systems often require a reduction in decentralization or robustness against strong…
Odontoceti: Ultra-Fast DAG Consensus with Two Round Commitment
Preston Vander Vos
Users of blockchains value scalability, expecting fast confirmations and immediate transaction processing. Odontoceti, the latest in DAG-based consensus, addresses these concerns b…