Many security standards and cryptographic solutions exist for different applications such as
agriculture, aircraft, banking systems and etc. but a more effective and efficient solution can …

Blockchain is a distributed and decentralized ledger for recording transactions. It is
maintained and shared among the participating nodes by utilizing cryptographic primitives …

Recent developments in blockchain technology have inspired innovative new designs in
resilient distributed and database systems. At their core, these blockchain applications …

A blockchain is an append-only linked-list of blocks, which is maintained at each
participating node. Each block records a set of transactions and their associated metadata …

Since the introduction of Bitcoin---the first wide-spread application driven by blockchains---
the interest of the public and private sector in blockchains has skyrocketed. At the core of this …

Recently, we saw the emergence of consensus-based database systems that promise
resilience against failures, strong data provenance, and federated data management …

The recent surge in federated data management applications has brought forth concerns
about the security of underlying data and the consistency of replicas in the presence of …

The problem of distributed consensus has played a major role in the development of
distributed data management systems. This includes the development of distributed atomic …

Since the inception of Bitcoin, the distributed systems community has shown interest in the
design of efficient blockchain systems. However, initial blockchain applications (like Bitcoin) …

Since the introduction of blockchains, several new database systems and applications have
tried to employ them. At the core of such blockchain designs are Byzantine Fault-Tolerant …