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This paper introduces MonadBFT, a novel Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocol that advances both performance and robustness. MonadBFT is implemented as the consensus protocol in the Monad blockchain. As a HotStuff-family…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Mohammad Mussadiq Jalalzai , Kushal Babel , Jovan Komatovic , Tobias Klenze , Sourav Das , Fatima Elsheimy , Mike Setrin , John Bergschneider , Babak Gilkalaye

This paper investigates the issue of fairness in Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), specifically focusing on the shortcomings observed in current blockchain systems due to Miner Extractable Value (MEV) phenomena and systemic…

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With the advancement of blockchain technology, chained Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocols have been increasingly adopted in practical systems, making their performance a crucial aspect of the study. In this paper, we introduce a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Yining Tang , Qihang Luo , Runchao Han , Jianyu Niu , Chen Feng , Yinqian Zhang

Recent progresses in asynchronous Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus, e.g. Dumbo-NG (CCS' 22) and Tusk (EuroSys' 22), show promising performance through decoupling transaction dissemination and block agreement. However, when executed…

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Blockchains have popularized automated market makers (AMMs). An AMM exchange is an application running on a blockchain which maintains a pool of crypto-assets and automatically trades assets with users governed by some pricing function that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 T-H. Hubert Chan , Ke Wu , Elaine Shi

Due to the distributed characteristics of Federated Learning (FL), the vulnerability of global model and coordination of devices are the main obstacle. As a promising solution of decentralization, scalability and security, leveraging…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Mingrui Cao , Long Zhang , Bin Cao

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

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Team Rocket , Maofan Yin , Kevin Sekniqi , Robbert van Renesse , Emin Gün Sirer

We introduce a structure for the directed acyclic graph (DAG) and a mechanism design based on that structure so that peers can reach consensus at large scale based on proof of work (PoW). We also design a mempool transaction assignment…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Jiahao He , Guangju Wang , Guangyuan Zhang , Jiheng Zhang

Recent developments in the Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus protocols have shown the DAG-based protocols to be a very promising technique. While early implementations of DAG-based protocols such as Narwhal/Bullshark trade high throughput…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Andrey Chursin

We present parallel proof-of-work with DAG-style voting, a novel proof-of-work cryptocurrency protocol that, compared to Bitcoin, provides better consistency guarantees, higher transaction throughput, lower transaction confirmation latency,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Patrik Keller

With the rapid development of blockchain, Byzantine fault-tolerant protocols have attracted revived interest recently. To overcome the theoretical bounds of Byzantine fault tolerance, many protocols attempt to use Trusted Execution…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Jiashuo Zhang , Jianbo Gao , Ke Wang , Zhenhao Wu , Ying Lan , Zhi Guan , Zhong Chen

Many blockchain platform are subject to maximal value extraction (MEV), and users on the platform are losing money while sending transactions because the transaction order can be manipulated to extract value from them. Consensus protocols…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Bowen Xue , Sreeram Kannan

Several prominent DAG-based blockchain protocols, such as DAG-Rider, Tusk, and Bullshark, completely separate between equivocation elimination and committing; equivocation is handled through the use of a reliable Byzantine broadcast…

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Due to the distributed nature of federated learning (FL), the vulnerability of the global model and the need for coordination among many client devices pose significant challenges. As a promising decentralized, scalable and secure solution,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shuaipeng Zhang , Lanju Kong , Yixin Zhang , Wei He , Yongqing Zheng , Han Yu , Lizhen Cui

Blockchain plays an important role in cryptocurrency markets and technology services. However, limitations on high latency and low scalability retard their adoptions and applications in classic designs. Reconstructed blockchain systems have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Qin Wang , Jiangshan Yu , Shiping Chen , Yang Xiang

In this article, we develop an interdisciplinary analysis of MEV which desires to merge the gap that exists between technical and legal research supporting policymakers in their regulatory decisions concerning blockchains, DeFi and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Simona Ramos , Joshua Ellul

The rapid growth of Blockchain and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has introduced new challenges and vulnerabilities that threaten the integrity and efficiency of the ecosystem. This study identifies critical issues such as Transaction Order…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiongfei Zhao , Hou-Wan Long , Zhengzhe Li , Jiangchuan Liu , Yain-Whar Si

Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus exhibits higher throughput in comparison to Proof of Work (PoW) in blockchains. But BFT-based protocols suffer from scalability problems with respect to the number of replicas in the network. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mohammad M. Jalalzai , Costas Busch , Golden Richard

The connected and autonomous systems (CAS) and auto-driving era is coming into our life. To support CAS applications such as AI-driven decision-making and blockchain-based smart data management platform, data and message…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Huanyu Wu , Chentao Yue , Lei Zhang , Yonghui Li , Muhammad Ali Imran

We describe \emph{Fantom}, a framework for asynchronous distributed systems. \emph{Fantom} is based on the Lachesis Protocol~\cite{lachesis01}, which uses asynchronous event transmission for practical Byzantine fault tolerance (pBFT) to…

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