Research corpusConsensusBLC-STUDY-0156
Scaling Nakamoto Consensus to Thousands of Transactions per Second
Keep every block in a directed acyclic graph. A pivot chain picks a total order. Honest blocks that lost the race still contribute security and transactions.
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- Chenxing Li, Peilun Li, Dong Zhou, Wei Xu, Fan Long and Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
- Date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Chenxing Li, Peilun Li, Dong Zhou, Wei Xu, Fan Long and Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
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- BLC-STUDY-0156
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- 1 October 2026
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Keep every block in a directed acyclic graph. A pivot chain picks a total order. Honest blocks that lost the race still contribute security and transactions.
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Li, C., Li, P., Zhou, D., Xu, W., Long, F., & Yao, A. C. (2018). Scaling Nakamoto Consensus to Thousands of Transactions per Second. Chenxing Li, Peilun Li, Dong Zhou, Wei Xu, Fan Long and Andrew Chi-Chih Yao. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.03870
BibTeX
@techreport{conflux2018,
title = {Scaling Nakamoto Consensus to Thousands of Transactions per Second},
author = {Chenxing Li, Peilun Li, Dong Zhou, Wei Xu, Fan Long and Andrew Chi-Chih Yao},
year = {2018},
institution = {Chenxing Li, Peilun Li, Dong Zhou, Wei Xu, Fan Long and Andrew Chi-Chih Yao},
url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.03870},
note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/conflux}
}RIS
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