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Quick Order Fairness
Christian Cachin, Jovana Mićić, Nathalie Steinhauer +1
Leader-based protocols for consensus, i.e., atomic broadcast, allow some processes to unilaterally affect the final order of transactions. This has become a problem for blockchain…
How to Trust Strangers: Composition of Byzantine Quorum Systems
Orestis Alpos, Christian Cachin, Luca Zanolini
Trust is the basis of any distributed, fault-tolerant, or secure system. A trust assumption specifies the failures that a system, such as a blockchain network, can tolerate and det…
On the Synchronization Power of Token Smart Contracts
Orestis Alpos, Christian Cachin, Giorgia Azzurra Marson +1
Modern blockchains support a variety of distributed applications beyond cryptocurrencies, including smart contracts -- which let users execute arbitrary code in a distributed and d…