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
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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 ...
The BFT lens: Tendermint
This is the second post discussing:
The BFT lens: HotStuff and Casper
Today I am going to overview a new algorithmic foundation called ‘HotStuff the Linear, Optimal-Resilience, One-Message BFT Devil’ (in short, HotStuff), devel...
Fast Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance is trickier than you might think
Over a decade of improvements to the seminal PBFT work have turned out to have safety or liveness issues, as demonstrated in a recent ArXiv note we posted:
Blockchain in the Lens of BFT
In the early 2000’s, a group of activists advocating the wide-spread use of cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies were engaging over the `cypherpun...
The Greek Tragedy of Industrial Computing Research Labs
Authors: Guy Singer and Dahlia Malkhi