Casanova
Cryptography and Security
2019-05-02 v2
Abstract
We introduce Casanova, a leaderless optimistic consensus protocol designed for a permissioned blockchain. Casanova produces blocks in a DAG rather than a chain, and combines voting rounds with block production by singling out individual conflicting transactions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1812.02232,
title = {Casanova},
author = {Kyle Butt and Derek Sorensen and Michael Stay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.02232},
year = {2019}
}
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