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 …

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

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 technology has emerged as the cornerstone of many decentralized applications
operating among otherwise untrusted peers. However, it is well known that existing …

Sharding can significantly improve the blockchain scalability, by dividing nodes into small
groups called shards that can handle transactions in parallel. However, all existing sharding …

Blockchain has received great attention in academia and industry due to its decentralization
and immutability. From the perspective of transaction processing, blockchain is a distributed …

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

Blockchain's popularity has seen a historic rise over the last decade. However, existing
blockchain systems have a major issue with scalability, which has become one of the main …

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