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Cordial Miners: Fast and Efficient Consensus for Every Eventuality

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2024-02-14 v6 Multiagent Systems Networking and Internet Architecture

Abstract

Cordial Miners are a family of efficient Byzantine Atomic Broadcast protocols, with instances for asynchrony and eventual synchrony. They improve the latency of state-of-the-art DAG-based protocols by almost 2X and achieve optimal good-case complexity of O(n) by forgoing Reliable Broadcast as a building block. Rather, Cordial Miners use the blocklace -- a partially-ordered counterpart of the totally-ordered blockchain data structure -- to implement the three algorithmic components of consensus: Dissemination, equivocation-exclusion, and ordering.

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@article{arxiv.2205.09174,
  title  = {Cordial Miners: Fast and Efficient Consensus for Every Eventuality},
  author = {Idit Keidar and Oded Naor and Ouri Poupko and Ehud Shapiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.09174},
  year   = {2024}
}
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