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03/14/2022
Block-STM: Scaling Blockchain Execution by Turning Ordering Curse to a Performance Blessing
Block-STM is a parallel execution engine for smart contracts, built arou...
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01/14/2022
Zef: Low-latency, Scalable, Private Payments
We introduce Zef, the first Byzantine-Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocol to s...
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05/25/2021
Narwhal and Tusk: A DAG-based Mempool and Efficient BFT Consensus
We propose separating the task of transaction dissemination from transac...
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02/18/2021
Embedding a Deterministic BFT Protocol in a Block DAG
This work formalizes the structure and protocols underlying recent distr...
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03/25/2020
FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement
FastPay allows a set of distributed authorities, some of which are Byzan...
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06/28/2019
SybilQuorum: Open Distributed Ledgers Through Trust Networks
The Sybil attack plagues all peer-to-peer systems, and modern open distr...
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01/31/2019
Replay Attacks and Defenses against Cross-shard Consensus in Sharded Distributed Ledgers
We present the first replay attacks against sharded distributed ledgers....
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09/05/2018
Blockmania: from Block DAGs to Consensus
Blockmania is a byzantine consensus protocol. Nodes emit blocks forming ...
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02/23/2018
TARANET: Traffic-Analysis Resistant Anonymity at the NETwork layer
Modern low-latency anonymity systems, no matter whether constructed as a...
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02/20/2018
Coconut: Threshold Issuance Selective Disclosure Credentials with Applications to Distributed Ledgers
We present Coconut, a novel selective disclosure credential scheme suppo...
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11/10/2017
Consensus in the Age of Blockchains
The blockchain initially gained traction in 2008 as the technology under...
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08/17/2017
Machine Learning as an Adversarial Service: Learning Black-Box Adversarial Examples
Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, inpu...
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03/01/2017