Paradigms for high-throughput transaction execution over a DAG, meeting recent advances in scaling core Consensus ordering protocols in blockchains.

In this research blog, Chainlink Labs’ Chief Research Officer Dahlia Malkhi explains a simple and minimalist approach to BFT consensus on a DAG.

A full solution for Byzantine Atomic Broadcast with instant finality when there is an unknown and dynamic set of active nodes.

A parallel execution engine enforcing block pre-ordering, combined with on-the-fly optimistic Software Transactional Memory.

A simple solution for the Byzantine generals problem with instant finality when there is an unknown and dynamic set of active nodes.

Research conducted and written by Ari Juels, Lorenz Breidenbach, and Florian Tramèr of Chainlink Labs As Ethereum’s popularity continues to increase thanks to tokenization, then DEXes, and now DeFi, we’re seeing unprecedented, consistently high gas prices for users of the network.

People often ask me whether smart contracts are going to have real impact someday. In my experience, making technology predictions is a mug’s game. Happily, in this case, there’s no need: Smart contracts have already had a big impact.