Blockene - A High-throughput Blockchain Over Mobile Devices
Offered By: USENIX via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Explore a groundbreaking blockchain technology designed for mobile devices in this 19-minute conference talk from OSDI '20. Dive into Blockene, a high-throughput blockchain system that enables smartphone users to participate in block validation and consensus with minimal resource usage. Learn how this innovative split-trust design delegates storage and gossip to untrusted nodes, allowing millions of users to secure transactions through collective honesty without incentives. Discover the system's architecture, scaling capabilities, and performance optimizations that achieve over 1000 transactions per second. Gain insights into potential applications and how Blockene could revolutionize decentralized trustworthy applications, all while consuming negligible battery and data on smartphones.
Syllabus
Introduction
Blockchains
Existing blockchain architectures
Candidate applications
How Blockene works
Scaling
Performance
Optimizations
Taught by
USENIX
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