Many existing blockchains do not adequately address all the characteristics of distributed
system applications and suffer from serious architectural limitations resulting in performance …

Blockchain serves as a replicated transactional processing system in a trustless distributed
environment. Existing blockchain systems all rely on an explicit ordering step to determine …

Blockchain has attracted lots of attention in recent years. However, the performance of
blockchain cannot meet the requirement of massive Internet of Things (IoT) devices. One of …

Enterprise-grade permissioned blockchain systems provide a promising infrastructure for
data sharing and cooperation between different companies. However, performance …

With ever more IoT (Internet of Things) and bigdata applications, the emerging blockchain
techniques provide fundamental supports to credibly track the transactions of digital assets …

Blockchain is making headlines due to it promises to provide a decentralized, transparent,
tamper-resistant, traceable and verifiable historical transaction records that can resist faults …

Since the inception of Bitcoin, the distributed systems community has shown interest in the
design of efficient blockchain systems. However, initial blockchain applications (like Bitcoin) …

Performance and scalability are major concerns for blockchains: permissionless systems are
typically limited by slow proof of X consensus algorithms and sequential postorder …

Blockchain technologies are expected to make a significant impact on a variety of industries.
However, one issue holding them back is their limited transaction throughput, especially …

Blockchain is a technology for storing an immutable history of transactions in a decentralized
platform by using cryptographic principles. Many industries have become interested in …