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

A Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)-based blockchain with its inherent parallel structure can
potentially significantly improve the throughput performance over conventional blockchains …

As various optimizations being proposed recently, the performance of blockchains is no
longer limited by the consensus protocols, successfully scaling to thousands of transactions …

SPEEDEX is a decentralized exchange (DEX) that lets participants securely trade assets
without giving any single party undue control over the market. SPEEDEX offers several …

This book takes readers through the sensational history of blockchains and their potential to
revolutionize database systems of the future. In order to demystify blockchains, the book …

The efficiency of block lifecycle determines the performance of blockchain, which is critically
affected by the execution, mining and validation steps in blockchain lifecycle. To accelerate …

Recently, mobile computing has changed the way that spatial data and GIS are processed.
Unlike wired and stand‐alone GIS, now the trend has been switched from offline to real‐time …

Concurrent execution of smart contracts is a promising approach to boost their performance
in current blockchain systems. However, prior work on concurrent execution only considered …

The processing of block lifecycles is essential to the efficiency of a blockchain, which
consists of four steps: creation, execution, consensus, and validation. The permissionless …

Transactions concurrent execution is one of the most promising solutions to enhance
throughput for blockchain systems. Traditional concurrent execution schemes include on …