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RapidChain: Scaling Blockchain via Full Sharding

RapidChain shards the ledger completely and uses a committee protocol that tolerates a smaller honest fraction inside a committee than a classical open network.

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Authors: Mahdi Zamani, Mahnush Movahedi and Mariana Raykova
Date: 2018
Publisher: Mahdi Zamani, Mahnush Movahedi and Mariana Raykova
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Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0115
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RapidChain shards the ledger completely and uses a committee protocol that tolerates a smaller honest fraction inside a committee than a classical open network.

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Zamani, M., Movahedi, M., & Raykova, M. (2018). RapidChain: Scaling Blockchain via Full Sharding. Mahdi Zamani, Mahnush Movahedi and Mariana Raykova. https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/460

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@techreport{rapidchain2018,
  title = {RapidChain: Scaling Blockchain via Full Sharding},
  author = {Mahdi Zamani, Mahnush Movahedi and Mariana Raykova},
  year = {2018},
  institution = {Mahdi Zamani, Mahnush Movahedi and Mariana Raykova},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/460},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/rapidchain}
}

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