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StakeCube: Combining Sharding and Proof-of-Stake to Build Fork-Free Secure Permissionless Distributed Ledgers

Authors : Antoine Durand, Emmanuelle Anceaume, Romaric Ludinard

Published in: Networked Systems

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Our work focuses on the design of a scalable permissionless blockchain in the proof-of-stake setting. In particular, we use a distributed hash table as a building block to set up randomized shards, and then leverage the sharded architecture to validate blocks in an efficient manner. We combine verifiable Byzantine agreements run by shards of stakeholders and a block validation protocol to guarantee that forks occur with negligible probability. We impose induced churn to make shards robust to eclipse attacks, and we rely on the UTXO coin model to guarantee that any stakeholder action is securely verifiable by anyone. Our protocol works against adaptive adversary, and makes no synchrony assumption beyond what is required for the byzantine agreement.

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Title: StakeCube: Combining Sharding and Proof-of-Stake to Build Fork-Free Secure Permissionless Distributed Ledgers
Authors: Antoine Durand
Emmanuelle Anceaume
Romaric Ludinard
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Networked Systems
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-31276-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-31277-0

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31277-0_10

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