Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Subject "sharding"
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Scaling Permissioned Blockchains via Sharding
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-25)Traditional distributed systems, such as those used in banking and real estate, require a trusted third party to operate and maintain them, which is highly dependent on the reliability of the operator. Since Bitcoin was ... -
Toward High-Performance Blockchains
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-31)The decentralized nature of blockchains has attracted many applications to build atop them, such as cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and non-fungible tokens. The health and performance of the underlying blockchain systems ... -
Understanding Scalability Issues in Sharded Blockchains
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-11)Since the release of Bitcoin in 2008, cryptocurrencies have attracted attention from academia, government, and enterprises. Blockchain, the backbone ledger in many cryptocurrencies, has shown its potential to be a data ...