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Stabl: The Sensitivity of Blockchains to Failures

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Blockchains promise to make online services more fault tolerant because they are replicated on a distributed system of nodes. Their nodes typically run different implementations of the same protocol across different geo-distributed regions, making the protocol supposedly tolerant to various failures including isolated crashes, transient failures, network partitions or attacks. Unfortunately, their fault tolerance has never been compared.

Source: International Middleware Conference

DOI: 10.1145/3721462.3730952

Authors: Vincent Gramoli, Rachid Guerraoui, Andrei Lebedev, Gauthier Voron

Institutions: The University of Sydney, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Language: English

Topic: Distributed systems and fault tolerance

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Australian Research Council

Awards: G5209224624, G6655049628