Blockchain enables peer-to-peer transactions in cyberspace without a trusted third party.
The rapid growth of Ethereum and smart contract blockchains generally calls for well …

A transaction fee mechanism (TFM) is an essential component of a blockchain protocol.
However, a systematic evaluation of the real-world impact of TFMs is still absent. Using rich …

Ethereum's Gas mechanism attempts to set transaction fees in accordance with the
computational cost of transaction execution: a cost borne by default by every node on the …

Ethereum is one of the most popular platforms for the development of blockchain-powered
applications. These applications are known as ÐApps. When engineering ÐApps …

Despite their increasing popularity, blockchains still suffer from severe scalability limitations.
Recently, Ethereum proposed a novel approach to block validation based on Data …

Consensus protocols are currently the bottlenecks that prevent blockchain systems from
scaling. However, we argue that transaction execution is also important to the performance …

In permissionless blockchains, transaction issuers include a fee to incentivize miners to
include their transactions. To accurately estimate this prioritization fee for a transaction …

Ethereum is a new blockchain‐based platform that is also capable of running smart
contracts. Despite its increasing popularity, there is a lack of studies on characterizing this …

The Ethereum platform allows developers to implement and deploy applications called
ÐApps onto the blockchain for public use through the use of smart contracts. To execute …

Ethereum is a promising but revolutionary blockchain approach to support rich
computational services enabled by Turing-complete instructions, also known as smart …