Limitations on high latency and low scalability of classical blockchain systems retard their
adoptions and applications. Reconstructed blockchain systems have been proposed to …

After the success of the Bitcoin blockchain, came several cryptocurrencies and blockchain
solutions in the last decade. Nonetheless, Blockchain-based systems still suffer from low …

Algorand is a new cryptocurrency that confirms transactions with latency on the order of a
minute while scaling to many users. Algorand ensures that users never have divergent …

The core technical component of blockchains is consensus: how to reach agreement among
a distributed network of nodes. A plethora of blockchain consensus protocols have been …

Scalability is one of the main roadblocks to business adoption of blockchain systems.
Despite recent intensive research on using sharding techniques to enhance the scalability of …

The blockchain initially gained traction in 2008 as the technology underlying bitcoin, but now
has been employed in a diverse range of applications and created a global market worth …

We propose Tesseract, a secure real-time cryptocurrency exchange service. Existing
centralized exchange designs are vulnerable to theft of funds, while decentralized …

Despite recent intensive research, existing blockchain systems do not adequately address
all the characteristics of distributed applications. In particular, distributed applications …

This paper introduces a family of leaderless Byzantine fault tolerance protocols, built around
a metastable mechanism via network subsampling. These protocols provide a strong …

The Internet of Things (IoT) has already reshaped and transformed our lives in many ways,
ranging from how we communicate with people or manage our health to how we drive our …