2 papers
cs.DC2025
An overview of the efficiency and censorship-resistance guarantees of widely-used consensus protocols
Orestis Alpos, Bernardo David, Nikolas Kamarinakis +1
Censorship resistance with short-term inclusion guarantees is an important feature of decentralized systems, missing from many state-of-the-art and even deployed consensus protocol…
cs.DC2025
Pod: An Optimal-Latency, Censorship-Free, and Accountable Generalized Consensus Layer
Orestis Alpos, Bernardo David, Jakov Mitrovski +2
This work addresses the inherent issues of high latency in blockchains and low scalability in traditional consensus protocols. We present pod, a novel notion of consensus whose fir…