4 papers
Lyte Quorum: Off-Chain Ready Smart Contract Hosted with Choice
Hao Hao, Dahlia Malkhi, Maofan Yin +1
This paper introduces Lyquor, a decentralized platform that reimagines blockchain infrastructure through a service-centric model where nodes selectively host smart contracts (calle…
Ordered Consensus with Equal Opportunity
Yunhao Zhang, Haobin Ni, Soumya Basu +6
The specification of state machine replication (SMR) has no requirement on the final total order of commands. In blockchains based on SMR, however, order matters, since different o…
BBCA-CHAIN: Low Latency, High Throughput BFT Consensus on a DAG
Dahlia Malkhi, Chrysoula Stathakopoulou, Maofan Yin
This paper presents a partially synchronous BFT consensus protocol powered by BBCA, a lightly modified Byzantine Consistent Broadcast (BCB) primitive. BBCA provides a Complete-Adop…
On Orchestrating Parallel Broadcasts for Distributed Ledgers
Peiyao Sheng, Chenyuan Wu, Dahlia Malkhi +4
This paper introduces and develops the concept of ``ticketing'', through which atomic broadcasts are orchestrated by nodes in a distributed system. The paper studies different tick…