Distributed ledgers have the potential to revolutionize the financial landscape by removing
trusted third parties. At the heart of most distributed ledgers is their consensus protocol. The …

Accumulation schemes are powerful primitives that enable distributed and incremental
verifiable computation with less overhead than recursive SNARKs. However, existing …

Many blockchain platforms use committee-based consensus for scalability, finality, and
security. In this consensus scheme, a committee decides which blocks get appended to the …