Since the introduction of Bitcoin---the first widespread application driven by blockchains---
the interest in the design of blockchain-based applications has increased tremendously. At …

The explosive advent of the blockchain technology has led to hundreds of blockchain
systems in the industry, thousands of academic papers published over the last few years …

The emergence of blockchains has fueled the development of resilient systems that can deal
with Byzantine failures due to crashes, bugs, or even malicious behavior. Recently, we have …

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

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 …

The growing interest in reliable multi-party applications has fostered widespread adoption of
Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (bft) consensus protocols. Existing bft protocols need f more …

Agreement protocols have been extensively used by distributed data management systems
to provide robustness and high availability. The broad spectrum of design dimensions …

We present LedgerView--a system that adds access control views to permissioned
blockchains. The approach is motivated by an AT&T application of tracking refurbished …

The emergence of blockchain technology has renewed the interest in consensus-based
data management systems that are resilient to failures. To maximize the throughput of these …

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 …