Concordia: A Streamlined Consensus Protocol for Blockchain Networks

In this paper, we present a novel Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocol for sharded blockchain networks that does not rely on expensive leader-driven communication. The proposed protocol selects a single block proposer at a time and uses threshold signatures as a voting mechanism to confirm th...

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Main Authors: Carlos Santiago, Shuyang Ren, Choonhwa Lee, Minsoo Ryu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9324848/