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A decentralized blockchain is a distributed ledger that is often used as a platform for exchanging goods and services. This ledger is maintained by a network of nodes that obeys a set of rules, called a consensus protocol, which helps to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Lucy Klinger , Lei Zhang , Zhennan Zhou

Blockchain systems come with a promise of decentralization that often stumbles on a roadblock when key decisions about modifying the software codebase need to be made. This is attested by the fact that both of the two major…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Aggelos Kiayias , Philip Lazos

In this Letter we identify the general rules that determine the synchronization properties of interconnected networks. We study analytically, numerically and experimentally how the degree of the nodes through which two networks are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Aguirre , R. Sevilla-Escoboza , R. Gutiérrez , D. Papo , J. M. Buldú

Recent advances in the blockchain research have been made in two important directions. One is refined resilience analysis utilizing game theory to study the consequences of selfish behaviors of users (miners), and the other is the extension…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Lin Chen , Lei Xu , Zhimin Gao , Ahmed Sunny , Keshav Kasichainula , Weidong Shi

Blockchain is an emerging decentralized data collection, sharing and storage technology, which have provided abundant transparent, secure, tamper-proof, secure and robust ledger services for various real-world use cases. Recent years have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Xiao Li , Weili Wu

Blockchain performance has historically faced challenges posed by the throughput limitations of consensus algorithms. Recent breakthroughs in research have successfully alleviated these constraints by introducing a modular architecture that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ray Neiheiser , Arman Babaei , Giannis Alexopoulos , Marios Kogias , Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias

Blockchain technology is among the fastest-growing technologies in the world today. It has been adopted in diverse areas but mostly in financial systems, such as Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Therefore, it is a niche that has attracted interest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Mabrook S. Al-Rakhami , Abdu Gumaei , Sk. Md. Mizanur Rahman , Atif Al-Amri

The paper presents an innovative approach to address the challenges of scalability and reliability in Distributed Federated Learning by leveraging the integration of blockchain technology. The paper focuses on enhancing the trustworthiness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Faijan Ahamad Khan , Mohammed Afaan Shaikh , Amir Jaberzadeh , Jason Geng

Blockchain is a growing decentralized system built for transparency and immutability. There have been several major attacks on blockchain-based systems, leaving a gap in the trustability of this system. This article presents a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Joydip Das , Syed Ashraf Al Tasin , Md. Forhad Rabbi , Md Sadek Ferdous

Blockchain technology is widely used in various fields due to its ability to provide decentralization and trustless security. This is a fundamental understanding held by many advocates, but it is misunderstood, leading participants to fail…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chunyi Zhang , Fengjiao Dou , Xiaoqi Li

To address the large amount of energy wasted by blockchains, we propose a decentralized consensus protocol for blockchains in which the computation can be used to search for good approximate solutions to any optimization problem. Our…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Naoki Shibata

This paper presents a novel Collaborative Cyberattack Detection (CCD) system aimed at enhancing the security of blockchain-based data-sharing networks by addressing the complex challenges associated with noise addition in federated learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Tran Viet Khoa , Mohammad Abu Alsheikh , Yibeltal Alem , Dinh Thai Hoang

In this paper, we systematically explore the attack surface of the Blockchain technology, with an emphasis on public Blockchains. Towards this goal, we attribute attack viability in the attack surface to 1) the Blockchain cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Muhammad Saad , Jeffrey Spaulding , Laurent Njilla , Charles Kamhoua , Sachin Shetty , DaeHun Nyang , Aziz Mohaisen

With the ever-increasing popularity of blockchain applications, securing blockchain networks plays a critical role in these cyber systems. In this paper, we first study cyberattacks (e.g., flooding of transactions, brute pass) in blockchain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Tran Viet Khoa , Do Hai Son , Dinh Thai Hoang , Nguyen Linh Trung , Tran Thi Thuy Quynh , Diep N. Nguyen , Nguyen Viet Ha , Eryk Dutkiewicz

Blockchain has become a popular emergent technology in many industries. It is suitable for a broad range of applications, from its base role as an immutable distributed ledger to the deployment of distributed applications. Many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Inwon Kang , Aparna Gupta , Oshani Seneviratne

Blockchain technology, while revolutionary in enabling decentralized transactions, faces scalability challenges as the ledger must be replicated across all nodes of the chain, limiting throughput and efficiency. Sharding, which divides the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Björn Assmann , Samuel J. Burri

Blockchain and blockchain-inspired decentralized applications are on the rise thanks to their unique characteristics such as their decentralized nature, anonymity, and tamper-proof nature; however, blockchain transactions tend to experience…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yi Lyu

In recent years, blockchain technology has received unparalleled attention from academia, industry, and governments all around the world. It is considered a technological breakthrough anticipated to disrupt several application domains. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Md Sadek Ferdous , Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury , Mohammad A. Hoque , Alan Colman

Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in the blockchain technology, and many blockchain-based applications have been developed to take advantage of its decentralization, transparency, fault tolerance, and strong security. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Yihao Guo , Zhiguo Wan , Xiuzhen Cheng

The widespread adoption of blockchain technology has amplified the spectrum of potential threats to its integrity and security. The ongoing quest to exploit vulnerabilities emphasizes how critical it is to expand on current research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Kaustubh Dwivedi , Ankit Agrawal , Ashutosh Bhatia , Kamlesh Tiwari