3 papers
cs.DC2026
Steelhead: Interleaving Partially Synchronous and Asynchronous Commit Rules on a Shared DAG
George Danezis, Zeno De Angeli, Philipp Jovanovic +3
Dual-mode consensus protocols are fast when the network is partially synchronous and remain live under asynchrony. We introduce Steelhead, a dual-mode mechanism that composes a par…
cs.DC2026
Barnacle: Adaptive Multi-Leader Scheduling for DAG-Based Consensus
George Danezis, Zeno De Angeli, Alexandru Ianov Vitanov +5
In DAG-based consensus, all validators propose blocks concurrently, and designated leader blocks drive transaction commit. Having multiple leader slots per round cuts queuing laten…
cs.DC2026
Sharpedo: Dual-Mode Uncertified DAG-Based Consensus Protocol
Zeno de Angeli
Mysticeti and Mahi-Mahi represent leading approaches to consensus protocols, leveraging a novel uncertified Directed Acyclic Graph data structure to achieve substantial performance…