Papers (consensus) [62]
A curated list of papers ordered by number of citations. Last updated 2019-08-20
| # | Title | |
| 1. | Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Nakamoto, Satoshi. 2008  | |
| 2. | Majority is not enough: Bitcoin mining is vulnerable Eyal, Ittay and Gün Sirer, Emin. 2014 | |
| 3. | Hashcash - A Denial of Service Counter-Measure Back, Adam. 2002 | |
| 4. | The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol : Analysis and Applications Garay, Juan A and Kiayias, Aggelos and Leonardos, Nikos. 2014 | |
| 5. | Bitcoin-NG: A Scalable Blockchain Protocol Eyal, Ittay and Gencer, Adem Efe and Sirer, Emin Gün and van Renesse, Robbert. 2016 | |
| 6. | On the security and performance of proof of work blockchains Gervais, Arthur and Karame, Ghassan O and W\"ust, Karl and Glykantzis, Vasileios and Ritzdorf, Hubert and Capkun, Srdjan. 2016 | |
| 7. | Algorand Chen, Jing and Micali, Silvio. 2016 | |
| 8. | Optimal Selfish Mining Strategies in Bitcoin Sapirshtein, Ayelet and Sompolinsky, Yonatan and Zohar, Aviv. 2015 | |
| 9. | Analysis of the Blockchain Protocol in Asynchronous Networks Pass, Rafael and Seeman, Lior and abhi Shelat. 2016 | |
| 10. | The Ripple protocol consensus algorithm Schwartz, D and Youngs, N and Britto, A. 2014 | |
| 11. | The Miner's Dilemma Eyal, Ittay. 2014 | |
| 12. | The honey badger of BFT protocols Miller, Andrew and Xia, Yu and Croman, Kyle and Shi, Elaine and Song, Dawn. 2016 | |
| 13. | Inclusive block chain protocols Lewenberg, Yoad and Sompolinsky, Yonatan and Zohar, Aviv. 2015 | |
| 14. | Blockchain consensus protocols in the wild Cachin, Christian and Vukoli\'c, Marko. 2017 | |
| 15. | Hybrid consensus: Efficient consensus in the permissionless model Pass, Rafael and Shi, Elaine. 2017 | |
| 16. | Fruitchains: A fair blockchain Pass, Rafael and Shi, Elaine. 2016 | |
| 17. | Accelerating Bitcoin's Transaction Processing. Fast Money Grows on Trees, Not Chains Sompolinsky, Yonatan and Zohar, A. 2013 | |
| 18. | Consensus in the age of blockchains Bano, Shehar and Sonnino, Alberto and Al-Bassam, Mustafa and Azouvi, Sarah and McCorry, Patrick and Meiklejohn, Sarah and Danezis, George. 2017 | |
| 19. | Speed-Security Tradeoffs in Blockchain Protocols Kiayias, Aggelos and Panagiotakos, Giorgos. 2015 | |
| 20. | Anonymous Byzantine Consensus from Moderately-Hard Puzzles: A Model for Bitcoin Miller, Andrew and Jr, Jj LaViola. 2014 | |
| 21. | The Bitcoin Backbone Protocol with Chains of Variable Difficulty Juan A. Garay and Aggelos Kiayias and Nikos Leonardos. 2016 | |
| 22. | Thunderella: Blockchains with Optimistic Instant Confirmation Rafael Pass and Elaine Shi. 2017 | |
| 23. | On Trees, Chains and Fast Transactions in the Blockchain Kiayias, Aggelos and Panagiotakos, Giorgos. 2016 | |
| 24. | Verifiable Delay Functions Dan Boneh, Joseph Bonneau, Benedikt Bünz, Ben Fisch. 2018 | |
| 25. | On The Longest Chain Rule and Programmed Self-Destruction of Crypto Currencies Courtois, Nicolas T. 2014 | |
| 26. | Polkadot: Vision for a heterogeneous multi-chain framework Wood, Gavin. 2016 | |
| 27. | DFINITY Technology Overview Series, Consensus System Hanke, Timo and Movahedi, Mahnush and Williams, Dominic. 2018 | |
| 28. | When cryptocurrencies mine their own business Teutsch, Jason and Jain, Sanjay and Saxena, Prateek. 2016 | |
| 29. | Publish or Perish: A Backward-Compatible Defense against Selfish Mining in Bitcoin Zhang, Ren and Preneel, Bart. 2017 | |
| 30. | PHANTOM: A Scalable BlockDAG Protocol Yonatan Sompolinsky and Aviv Zohar. 2018 | |
| 31. | Mechanising Blockchain Consensus P\^\irlea, George and Sergey, Ilya. 2018 | |
| 32. | SPECTRE: Serialization of Proof-of-work Events: Confirming Transactions via Recursive Elections Sompolinsky, Yonatan and Lewenberg, Yoad and Zohar, Aviv. 2016 | |
| 33. | Stake-Bleeding Attacks on Proof-of-Stake Blockchains Peter Gaži and Aggelos Kiayias and Alexander Russell. 2018 | |
| 34. | Rethinking Large-Scale Consensus Rafael Pass and Elaine Shi. 2018 | |
| 35. | Agreement with Satoshi – On the Formalization of Nakamoto Consensus Nicholas Stifter and Aljosha Judmayer and Philipp Schindler and Alexei Zamyatin and Edgar Weippl. 2018 | |
| 36. | Bootstrapping the Blockchain, with Applications to Consensus and Fast PKI Setup Garay, Juan A and Kiayias, Aggelos and Leonardos, Nikos and Panagiotakos, Giorgos. 2018 | |
| 37. | Blockchain-Free Cryptocurrencies: A Framework for Truly Decentralised Fast Transactions Boyen, Xavier and Carr, Christopher and Haines, Thomas. 2016 | |
| 38. | On the Necessity of a Prescribed Block Validity Consensus: Analyzing Bitcoin Unlimited Mining Protocol Ren Zhang and Bart Preneel. 2017 | |
| 39. | The Thunder Protocol Pass, Rafael and Shi, Elaine. 2018 | |
| 40. | A Better Method to Analyze Blockchain Consistency Kiffer, Lucianna and Rajaraman, Rajmohan and others. 2018 | |
| 41. | Blockmania: from Block DAGs to Consensus Danezis, George and Hrycyszyn, David. 2018 | |
| 42. | Ouroboros-BFT: A Simple Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus Protocol Kiayias, Aggelos and Russell, Alexander. 2018 | |
| 43. | Sok: A consensus taxonomy in the blockchain era Garay, Juan and Kiayias, Aggelos. 2018 | |
| 44. | Managing Secrets with Consensus Networks: Fairness, Ransomware and Access Control. Kaptchuk, Gabriel and Miers, Ian and Green, Matthew. 2017 | |
| 45. | Lay down the common metrics: Evaluating proof-of-work consensus protocols’ security Zhang, Ren and Preneel, Bart. 2019 | |
| 46. | A Scalable Proof-of-Stake Blockchain in the Open Setting Fan, Lei and Zhou, Hong-Sheng and Katz, Jonathan. 2018 | |
| 47. | Betting on Blockchain Consensus with Fantomette Azouvi, Sarah and McCorry, Patrick and Meiklejohn, Sarah. 2018 | |
| 48. | Graphchain: a Blockchain-Free Scalable Decentralised Ledger Boyen, Xavier and Carr, Christopher and Haines, Thomas. 2018 | |
| 49. | A Nonoutsourceable Puzzle under GHOST Rule Zeng, Gongxian and Yiu, Siu Ming and Zhang, Jun and Kuzuno, Hiroki and Au, Man Ho. 2017 | |
| 50. | PaLa: A Simple Partially Synchronous Blockchain Chan, TH Hubert and Pass, Rafael and Shi, Elaine. 2018 | |
| 51. | Communication complexity of byzantine agreement, revisited Abraham, Ittai and Chan, TH and Dolev, Danny and Nayak, Kartik and Pass, Rafael and Ren, Ling and Shi, Elaine. 2018 | |
| 52. | Redactable blockchain in the permissionless setting Deuber, Dominic and Magri, Bernardo and Thyagarajan, Sri Aravinda Krishnan. 2019 | |
| 53. | Efficient Algorithms for Broadcast and Consensus Based on Proofs of Work Lisa Eckey and Sebastian Faust and Julian Loss. 2017 | |
| 54. | PiLi: An Extremely Simple Synchronous Blockchain Chan, TH Hubert and Pass, Rafael and Shi, Elaine. 2018 | |
| 55. | Analysis of Deterministic Longest-Chain Protocols Shi, Elaine. 2018 | |
| 56. | Pay-To-Win: Incentive Attacks on Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrencies Aljosha Judmayer and Nicholas Stifter and Alexei Zamyatin and Itay Tsabary and Ittay Eyal and Peter Gazi and Sarah Meiklejohn and Edgar Weippl. 2019 | |
| 57. | StrongChain: Transparent and Collaborative Proof-of-Work Consensus Szalachowski, Pawel and Reijsbergen, Dani\"el and Homoliak, Ivan and Sun, Siwei. 2019 | |
| 58. | Consensus through Herding Chan, TH Hubert and Pass, Rafael and Shi, Elaine. 2019 | |
| 59. | Scalable and Probabilistic Leaderless BFT Consensus through Metastability Rocket, Team and Yin, Maofan and Sekniqi, Kevin and van Renesse, Robbert and Sirer, Emin G\"un. 2019 | |
| 60. | Toychain: Formally Verified Blockchain Consensus George P\^ırlea. 2019 | |
| 61. | Ouroboros Chronos: Permissionless Clock Synchronization via Proof-of-Stake Christian Badertscher and Peter Gaži and Aggelos Kiayias and Alexander Russell and Vassilis Zikas. 2019 | |
| 62. | Fractal: A New Paradigm for High-Performance Proof-of-Stake Blockchains Zhou, Hong-Sheng. 2019 |