Publications related to Algorand

Building Strongly-Consistent Systems Resilient to Failures, Partitions, and Slowdowns

Distributed systems designers typically strive to improve performance and preserve availability despite failures or attacks; but, when strong consistency is also needed, they encounter fundamental limitations. The bottleneck is in replica coordination, whi ...

EPFL2023

DIABLO: A Benchmark Suite for Blockchains

Rachid Guerraoui, Gauthier Jérôme Timothée Voron, Vincent Gramoli, Andrei Lebedev

With the recent advent of blockchains, we have witnessed a plethora of blockchain proposals. These proposals range from using work to using time, storage or stake in order to select blocks to be appended to the chain. As a drawback it makes it difficult fo ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Diablo-v2: A Benchmark for Blockchain Systems

Rachid Guerraoui, Gauthier Jérôme Timothée Voron, Vincent Gramoli, Andrei Lebedev

With the recent advent of blockchains, we have witnessed a plethora of blockchain proposals. These proposals range from using work to using time, storage or stake in order to select blocks to be appended to the chain. As a drawback it makes it difficult fo ...

2022

A blockchain and IoT-based lightweight framework for enabling information transparency in supply chain finance

Jinzhi Lu, Jingjing Chen

Supply Chain Finance (SCF) refers to the financial service in which banks rely on core enterprises to manage the capital flow and logistics of upstream and downstream enterprises. SCF adopts a self-testing and closed-loop credit model to control funds and ...

KEAI PUBLISHING LTD2022

Secure, Confidential Blockchains Providing High Throughput and Low Latency

Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias

One of the core promises of blockchain technology is that of enabling trustworthy data dissemination in a trustless environment. What current blockchain systems deliver, however, is slow dissemination of public data, rendering blockchain technology unusabl ...

EPFL2019

Low-latency Blockchain Consensus

Bryan Alexander Ford, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Cristina Basescu

Blockchains are increasingly attractive due to their decentralization, yet inherent limitations of high latency, in the order of minutes, and attacks on consensus cap their practicality. We introduce Blinkchain, a Byzantine consensus protocol that relies o ...

2017

Bitcoin Meets Collective Signing

Bryan Alexander Ford, Linus Gasser, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Philipp Svetolik Jovanovic, Nicolas Gailly, Ismail Khoffi

While showing great promise, Bitcoin requires users to wait tens of minutes for transactions to commit, and even then, offering only probabilistic guarantees. This paper introduces ByzCoin, a novel Byzantine consensus protocol that leverages scalable colle ...

2016

Enhancing Bitcoin Security and Performance with Strong Consistency via Collective Signing

Bryan Alexander Ford, Linus Gasser, Philipp Svetolik Jovanovic, Nicolas Gailly, Ismail Khoffi

While showing great promise, Bitcoin requires users to wait tens of minutes for transactions to commit, and even then, offering only probabilistic guarantees. This paper introduces ByzCoin, a novel Byzantine consensus protocol that leverages scalable colle ...

Usenix Assoc2016

Poster: LocalCoin: An Ad-hoc Payment Scheme for Areas with High Connectivity

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar, Dimitrios Chatzopoulos

The popularity of digital currencies, especially cryptocurrencies, has been continuously growing since the appearance of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency protocol enabling transactions between individuals without the need of a truste ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

LocalCoin: An ad-hoc payment scheme for areas with high connectivity: poster.

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar, Dimitrios Chatzopoulos

The popularity of digital currencies, especially cryptocurrencies, has been continuously growing since the appearance of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency protocol enabling transactions between individuals without the need of a truste ...

ACM2016

Algorand

Building Strongly-Consistent Systems Resilient to Failures, Partitions, and Slowdowns

DIABLO: A Benchmark Suite for Blockchains

Diablo-v2: A Benchmark for Blockchain Systems

A blockchain and IoT-based lightweight framework for enabling information transparency in supply chain finance

Secure, Confidential Blockchains Providing High Throughput and Low Latency

Low-latency Blockchain Consensus

Bitcoin Meets Collective Signing

Enhancing Bitcoin Security and Performance with Strong Consistency via Collective Signing

Poster: LocalCoin: An Ad-hoc Payment Scheme for Areas with High Connectivity

LocalCoin: An ad-hoc payment scheme for areas with high connectivity: poster.

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Building Strongly-Consistent Systems Resilient to Failures, Partitions, and Slowdowns

DIABLO: A Benchmark Suite for Blockchains

Diablo-v2: A Benchmark for Blockchain Systems

A blockchain and IoT-based lightweight framework for enabling information transparency in supply chain finance

Secure, Confidential Blockchains Providing High Throughput and Low Latency

Low-latency Blockchain Consensus

Enhancing Bitcoin Security and Performance with Strong Consistency via Collective Signing

Bitcoin Meets Collective Signing

Poster: LocalCoin: An Ad-hoc Payment Scheme for Areas with High Connectivity

LocalCoin: An ad-hoc payment scheme for areas with high connectivity: poster.