SPECTRE: A Fast and Scalable Cryptocurrency Protocol

By Yonatan Sompolinsky, Yoad Lewenberg, Aviv Zohar. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2016

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Citations in the corpus

• Applications of Blockchains in the Internet of Things: A Comprehensive Survey (2019, methodology): “To visualize the papers reviewed in this survey, Table XII enlists all the research contributions towards developing a blockchain-based IoT, along with information on which areas × PlaTIBART [106] × × × × Ayoade et al. [107] × × × Cha et al. [87] × × × × × × Hawk [33] Conoscenti et al. [108] × × Sha”
• Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies (2017, background): “GHOST [48], SPECTRE [49], and Meshcash [5] are recent proposals for increasing Bitcoin’s throughput by replacing the underlying chainstructured ledger with a tree or directed acyclic graph (DAG) structures, and resolving conflicts in the forks of these data structures.”
• Solutions to Scalability of Blockchain: A Survey (2020, methodology): “Therefore, some other studies [15], [39], [59] were dedicated to improving the original PoW mechanism.”
• A Survey on Consensus Mechanisms and Mining Strategy Management in Blockchain Networks (2018, methodology): “To further improve the network throughput, the protocol proposed in [177] is later extended to the protocol ‘‘SPECTRE’’ in [24].”
• A Survey of Distributed Consensus Protocols for Blockchain Networks (2019, background): “[133] in 2016, SPECTRE is one of the first well-documented”
• A scalable verification solution for blockchains (2019, background): “Proposed Byzantine “sharding” [29, 35, 39, 41, 44, 46, 48], and miner-based “serializing” [36, 51] protocols exist which aim to distribute verification work, but here we take a simple and fundamentally different approach to decouple the two tasks which miners perform, namely”
• A Survey of Blockchain Technology Applied to Smart Cities: Research Issues and Challenges (2019, background): “Inclusive BlockDAG [48] and Spectre [49] are two examples of blockDAG systems.”
• SoK: Consensus in the Age of Blockchains (2017, methodology): “Another approach for improving scalability, used by Spectre [87], is to allow miners to mine blocks concurrently by replacing the ‘linear’ blockchain structure with a Directed Acyclic Graph (block-”