The Latest View on View Synchronization
An evolution of “Pacemaker” solutions to the Byzantine View Synchronization problem finally led to optimal communication-complexity solutions.
Recent Posts
Minority Corruption Resilience in Byzantine Generals With Unknown and Fluctuating Participation
Byzantine Generals with Unknown/Fluctuating Participation extended to tolerate to Minority Corruption.
Instant Finality in Byzantine Atomic Broadcast under Unknown/Dynamic Participation
A full solution for Byzantine Atomic Broadcast with instant finality when there is an unknown and dynamic set of active nodes.
Instant Finality in Byzantine Generals with Unknown and Dynamic Participation
a simple solution for reaching agreement with instant finality when there is an unknown and dynamic set of active nodes
Execution and Parallelism for DAG-based BFT Consensus
Paradigms for high-throughput transaction execution over a DAG, meeting recent advances in scaling core Consensus ordering protocols in blockchains.
Another Advantage of DAG-based BFT: BEV Resistance
This post describes how to integrate “Order-Fairness” into DAG-based BFT Consensus protocols to prevent BEV exploits
On BFT Consensus Evolution: From Monolithic to DAG
This post describes a simple and efficient DAG-based BFT Consensus embedding – quite possibly the simplest way to build BFT Consensus in a DAG.
Block-STM: Accelerating Smart-Contract Processing
A parallel execution engine enforcing block pre-ordering, combined with on-the-fly optimistic Software Transactional Memory.
What They Did not Teach you in Streamlet
In this post, we explore Streamlet and some gaps it leaves.
Twins: Making BFT Systems Robust
Capturing Byzantine Attacks
Flexible Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Author: Kartik Nayak
“Concurrency” Book is Here
Today, I am proud to announce that a book I edited titled “Concurrency: The Works of Leslie Lamport” has just been published and is available on Amazon ; Go...
HotStuff: Three-Chain Rules!
Renewed interest in the Blockchain world on a long standing problem of asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) Consensus focuses on the following scaling...
Dfinty Consensus Explored
Did you ever wonder what is the BFT consensus engine that drives Dfinity, is it new or known, and how can it be improved?
“Nevertheless She Persisted” Book is Here.
I was introduced to the beauty of math by my high school Russian math teacher, Mr Gershovits. He taught us not just math, but the pleasure of grappling with ...