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Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocols with Near-Optimal Throughput
January/2020, ePrint Archive
PROOF-OF-STAKETHROUGHPUT
One of the most significant challenges in the design of blockchain protocols is increasing their transaction-processing throughput. In this work we put forth for the first time a formal execution model that enables to express transaction throughput while supporting formal security arguments regarding persistence and liveness. We then present a protocol in the proof-of-stake setting achieving near-optimal throughput under adaptive active corruption of any minority of the stake.