Blockchain (eg, Bitcoin and Ethereum) has drawn much attention and has been widely-
deployed in recent years. However, blockchain scalability is emerging as a challenging …

The key challenges of the building, engineering, construction, operations, and mining
(BECOM) industries are the lack of trust, inefficiencies, and the fragmentation of the …

A major approach to overcoming the performance and scalability limitations of current
blockchain protocols is to use sharding which is to split the overheads of processing …

Cryptocurrencies have provided a promising infrastructure for pseudonymous online
payments. However, low throughput has significantly hindered the scalability and usability of …

Blockchain is a distributed and decentralized ledger for recording transactions. It is
maintained and shared among the participating nodes by utilizing cryptographic primitives …

Blockchain has found applications to track ownership of digital assets. Yet, several
blockchains were shown vulnerable to network attacks. It is thus crucial for companies to …

Blockchain has recently emerged as a research trend, with potential applications in a broad
range of industries and context. One particular successful Blockchain technology is smart …

Distributed Key Generation (DKG) is a technique to bootstrap threshold cryptosystems
without a trusted third party and is a building block to decentralized protocols such as …

The underlying fundaments of blockchain are cryptography and cryptographic concepts that
provide reliable and secure decentralized solutions. Although many recent papers study the …

Synchronous solutions for Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) can tolerate up to minority faults.
In this work, we present Sync HotStuff, a surprisingly simple and intuitive synchronous BFT …