The latency price of threshold cryptosystem in blockchains

Z Xiang, S Das, Z Li, Z Ma, A Spiegelman - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Threshold cryptography is essential for many blockchain protocols. For example, many
protocols rely on threshold common coin to implement asynchronous consensus, leader …

SoK: DAG-based Consensus Protocols

M Raikwar, N Polyanskii… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is a Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) that focuses on Directed Acyclic Graph
(DAG)-based consensus protocols in Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs). Our study …

Obelia: Scaling DAG-Based Blockchains to Hundreds of Validators

G Danezis, L Kokoris-Kogias, A Sonnino… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Obelia improves upon structured DAG-based consensus protocols used in proof-of-stake
systems, allowing them to effectively scale to accommodate hundreds of validators. Obelia …

No Fish Is Too Big for Flash Boys! Frontrunning on DAG-based Blockchains

J Zhang, A Kate - Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2024 - eprint.iacr.org
Frontrunning is rampant in blockchain ecosystems, yielding attackers profits that have
already soared into several million. Most existing frontrunning attacks focus on manipulating …

Slipstream: Ebb-and-Flow Consensus on a DAG with Fast Confirmation for UTXO Transactions

N Polyanskii, S Muller, M Raikwar - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.14876, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces Slipstream, a Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) protocol where nodes
concurrently propose blocks to be added to a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) and aim to …

Thunderbolt: Causal Concurrent Consensus and Execution

J Chen, A Sonnino, L Kokoris-Kogias… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the realm of blockchain, smart contracts have achieved widespread adoption due to their
inherent programmability. However, smart contracts suffer from long execution delays …

Fides: Scalable Censorship-Resistant DAG Consensus via Trusted Components

S Xie, D Kang, H Lyu, J Niu, M Sadoghi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01062, 2025 - arxiv.org
Recently, consensus protocols based on Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) have gained
significant attention due to their potential to build robust blockchain systems, particularly in …

[PDF][PDF] Zaptos: Towards Optimal Blockchain Latency

Z Xiang, Z Li, B Arun, T Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
End-to-end blockchain latency has become a critical topic of interest in both academia and
industry. However, while modern blockchain systems process transactions through multiple …

[PDF][PDF] Short Paper: Obelia: Scaling DAG-Based Blockchains to Hundreds of Validators

G Danezis, L Kokoris-Kogias, A Sonnino, M Tian - sonnino.com
Obelia improves upon structured DAG-based consensus protocols used in proof-of-stake
systems, allowing them to effectively scale to accommodate hundreds of validators. Obelia …