3 papers
cs.DC2026
Shards on a Shoestring: Empirical Characterization of NEAR Protocol Nightshade Sharding on Commodity Hardware
Sohini Sahukar, Om Amit Gandhi, Ioan Raicu
NEAR Protocol's Nightshade architecture targets one million transactions per second (TPS) through horizontal sharding of both state and computation. Published benchmarks were produ…
cs.DC2026
Simulation-Based Performance Evaluation of Sharded Blockchain Architectures
Om Amit Gandhi, Ioan Raicu
Public blockchains continue to struggle with scalability because improving throughput is not as simple as increasing block size or reducing block interval. Larger blocks increase v…
cs.DC2026
VaultxGPU: GPU-Accelerated Blockchain Consensus
Samuel Taiwo Fatunmbi, Om Amit Gandhi, Luke Logan
Blockchain consensus mechanisms based on Proof-of-Work consume significant energy, with Bitcoin alone estimated at approximately 150 TWh per year. Proof-of-Space reduces this cost…