Sui Lutris is the first smart-contract platform to sustainably achieve sub-second finality. It
achieves this significant decrease by employing consensusless agreement not only for …

We address the problem of online payments, where users can transfer funds among
themselves. We introduce Astro, a system solving this problem efficiently in a decentralized …

While the physical lives of many of us are in democracies (one person, one vote-eg, the EU
and the US), our digital lives are mostly in autocracies (one person, all votes-eg, Facebook) …

Selecting which blockchain participants can decide upon a new block is a difficult problem.
Consortium blockchains need the participants to be predetermined while public blockchains …

Cuttlefish addresses several limitations of existing consensus-less and consensus-
minimized decentralized ledgers, including restricted programmability and the risk of …

Mechanisms for defending against sybil attacks play a central role in permissionless
blockchains. An important class of sybil defenses are based on resource challenge, which …

Topos is an open interoperability protocol designed to reduce as much as possible trust
assumptions by replacing them with cryptographic constructions and decentralization while …

With the widespread use of blockchain, scenarios requiring data modification or privacy
control pose challenges to traditional immutable structures. Redactable blockchains offer a …

Grassroots currencies are means for turning mutual trust into liquidity, with the goal of
providing foundations for grassroots digital economies. Grassroots coins are units of debt …

Among various core components of Blockchain, consensus protocols represent a
fundamental keystone to achieve consistency and reliability. However, consensus remains …