DAMYSUS: streamlined BFT consensus leveraging trusted components

J Decouchant, D Kozhaya, V Rahli, J Yu - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Recently, streamlined Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols, such as HotStuff,
have been proposed as a means to circumvent the inefficient view-changes of traditional …

Marlin: Two-phase BFT with linearity

X Sui, S Duan, H Zhang - 2022 52nd Annual IEEE/IFIP …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the first Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) protocol with linear communication complexity,
HotStuff (PODC 2019) has received significant attention. HotStuff has three round-trips for …

Formal verification of justification and finalization in beacon chain

H Afzaal, NA Zafar, A Tehseen, S Kousar… - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, Beacon Chain known as the core of Ethereum 2.0, has gained considerable
attention since its launch. Many validators have staked billions of Ether in the Proof of Stake …

Formal verification of fraud-resilience in a crowdsourcing consensus protocol

H Afzaal, M Imran, MU Janjua - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
Crowdsourcing has emerged as a promising computing paradigm that utilizes human
intelligence to achieve complex tasks, but it encounters several security and trust issues …

Towards formal verification of hotstuff-based byzantine fault tolerant consensus in agda

H Carr, C Jenkins, M Moir, VC Miraldo… - NASA Formal Methods …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract LibraBFT is a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocol based on HotStuff.
We present an abstract model of the protocol underlying HotStuff/LibraBFT, and formal …

Verifying Randomized Consensus Protocols with Common Coins

S Gao, B Zhan, Z Wu, L Zhang - 2024 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Randomized fault-tolerant consensus protocols with common coins are widely used in cloud
computing and blockchain platforms. Due to their fundamental role, it is vital to guarantee …

Model Checking of Rewards and Penalties in Beacon Chain

H Afzaal, NA Zafar, A Tehseen, S Kousar - International Journal of …, 2025 - Springer
Abstract Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain has adopted the Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus
mechanism to significantly advance the security, scalability, and decentralization of …

Formally Verifying a Rollback-Prevention Protocol for TEEs

W Wang, J Niu, MK Reiter, Y Zhang - International Conference on Formal …, 2024 - Springer
Formal verification of distributed protocols is challenging and usually requires great human
effort. Ivy, a state-of-the-art formal verification tool for modeling and verifying distributed …

An Extensible Framework for Implementing Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Protocols

H Gogada, J Olsen, H Meling, L Jehl - Proceedings of the 38th ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
HotStuff is a Byzantine fault-tolerant state machine replication protocol that incurs linear
communication costs to achieve consensus. This linear scalability promoted the protocol to …

An extensible framework for implementing and validating byzantine fault-tolerant protocols

H Gogada, H Meling, L Jehl, JI Olsen - … of the 5th workshop on Advanced …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
HotStuff is a Byzantine fault-tolerant state machine replication protocol that incurs linear
communication costs to achieve consensus. This linear scalability promoted the protocol to …