RapidChain - Scaling Blockchain via Full Sharding

Explore the innovative RapidChain protocol in this 24-minute conference talk that addresses the scalability challenges of blockchain technology. Dive into the concept of full sharding as a solution to overcome performance limitations in current blockchain protocols. Examine how existing sharding-based approaches fall short by requiring linear communication per transaction, and discover how RapidChain aims to fully realize the benefits of sharding. Learn about Byzantine consensus, blockchain consensus, and the trade-offs between scalability and decentralization. Understand the key components of RapidChain, including network model, churn handling, UTXO management, and bootstrapping. Analyze experimental results comparing throughput, latency, and block size with other protocols. Gain insights into the potential of RapidChain to revolutionize blockchain scalability and performance.

Introduction
Byzantine Consensus
Block Chain Consensus
Bitcoin
Scalability vs decentralization
Charging Base Consensus
Full Charging
Challenges
Contributions
Network Model
Churn
First Epoch
UTXO
Bootstrapping
Information Dispersion
Handling Churn
Experimental Setup
throughput
latency
block size
comparison
question