Internet of Things (IoT), an significant support for strategic emerging industries, is re-building
industrial systems, such as transportation, healthcare and energy, while a number of new …

We present RAINBLOCK, a public blockchain that achieves high transaction throughput
without modifying the proof-of-work consensus. The chief insight behind RAINBLOCK is that …

Blockchain sharding has been increasingly used to improve blockchain systems'
performance, in which a blockchain is split into multiple smaller, disjoint shards. In practice …

Despite recent intensive research, existing blockchain systems do not adequately address
all the characteristics of distributed applications. In particular, distributed applications …

Blockchain interoperability, which allows state transitions across different blockchain
networks, is critical functionality to facilitate major blockchain adoption. Existing …

Sharding technique, which divides the whole network into multiple disjoint groups or
committees, has been recognized as a revolutionary solution to enhance the scalability of …

Blockchain, known as distributed ledger technology, suffers from the scalability problem. A
major approach to overcoming this limitation is using sharding, which divides the network …

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

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 …

Traditional public blockchain systems typically had very limited transaction throughput
because of the bottleneck of the consensus protocol itself. With recent advances in …