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most citedConsensus in the Age of Blockchains

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cs.DC2023★ 3 cited

Sui Lutris: A Blockchain Combining Broadcast and Consensus

Sam Blackshear, Andrey Chursin, George Danezis +9

Sui Lutris is the first smart-contract platform to sustainably achieve sub-second finality. It achieves this significant decrease by employing consensusless agreement not only for…

cs.DC2023

Mysticeti: Reaching the Limits of Latency with Uncertified DAGs

Kushal Babel, Andrey Chursin, George Danezis +5

We introduce Mysticeti-C, the first DAG-based Byzantine consensus protocol to achieve the lower bounds of latency of 3 message rounds. Since Mysticeti-C is built over DAGs it also…

cs.DC2023★ 1 cited

Performance of EdDSA and BLS Signatures in Committee-Based Consensus

Zhuolun Li, Alberto Sonnino, Philipp Jovanovic

We present the first performance comparison of EdDSA and BLS signatures in committee-based consensus protocols through large-scale geo-distributed benchmarks. Contrary to popular b…

cs.DC2022★ 1 cited

Bullshark: The Partially Synchronous Version

Alexander Spiegelman, Neil Giridharan, Alberto Sonnino +1

The purpose of this manuscript is to describe the deterministic partially synchronous version of Bullshark in a simple and clean way. This result is published in CCS 2022, however,…

cs.DC2021

Be Aware of Your Leaders

Shir Cohen, Rati Gelashvili, Lefteris Kokoris Kogias +4

Advances in blockchains have influenced the State-Machine-Replication (SMR) world and many state-of-the-art blockchain-SMR solutions are based on two pillars: Chaining and Leader-r…