X-shard: Optimistic Cross-Shard Transaction Processing for Sharding-based Blockchains

Recent advances in cryptocurrencies have sparked significant interest in blockchain technology. However, scalability issues remain a major challenge for wide adoption of blockchains. Sharding is a promising approach to scale blockchains, but existing sharding-based blockchains fail to achieve expect...

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Published in:	IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 1 - 12
Main Authors:	Xu, Jie, Ming, Yulong, Wu, Zihan, Wang, Cong, Jia, Xiaohua
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York IEEE 01.04.2024 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:	Blockchain blockchain scalability Blockchains Cryptography Digital currencies Distributed system Logic gates optimistic concurrency control Protocols Resource management Scalability Sharding Throughput Transaction processing
ISSN:	1045-9219, 1558-2183
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