3 papers
cs.DC2026
Majorum: Ebb-and-Flow Consensus with Dynamic Quorums
Francesco D'Amato, Roberto Saltini, Thanh-Hai Tran +2
Dynamic availability is the ability of a consensus protocol to remain live despite honest participants going offline and later rejoining. A well-known limitation is that dynamicall…
cs.DC2025
TOB-SVD: Total-Order Broadcast with Single-Vote Decisions in the Sleepy Model
Francesco D'Amato, Roberto Saltini, Thanh-Hai Tran +1
Over the past years, distributed consensus research has expanded its focus to address challenges in large-scale, permissionless systems, such as blockchains. This shift reflects th…
cs.DC2024
3-Slot-Finality Protocol for Ethereum
Francesco D'Amato, Roberto Saltini, Thanh-Hai Tran +1
Gasper, the consensus protocol currently employed by Ethereum, typically requires 64 to 95 slots -- the units of time during which a new chain extending the previous one by one blo…