Authors: Yibin Xu, Jingyi Zheng, Boris Düdder, Tijs Slaats, Yongluan Zhou

Published on: October 17, 2023

Impact Score: 8.2

Arxiv code: Arxiv:2310.11373

Summary

• What is new: Reticulum introduces a novel two-phase sharding protocol improving blockchain scalability by addressing diverse adversarial attacks.
• Why this is important: Existing blockchain sharding protocols do not adequately protect against various adversarial attacks, limiting blockchain scalability and transaction throughput.
• What the research proposes: Reticulum employs a two-phase approach with ‘control’ and ‘process’ shards, ensuring at least one trustworthy node in process shards and a majority of trusted nodes in control shards, adapting transaction throughput dynamically.
• Results: Experiments showed Reticulum significantly increases transaction throughput and provides robust protection against different network attacks, outperforming current sharding protocols.

Technical Details

Technological frameworks used: Reticulum sharding protocol

Models used: Unanimous voting model in process shards and majority voting in control shards

Data used: Blockchain transaction data against various adversarial attack scenarios

Potential Impact

Financial institutions, decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, and blockchain network providers could greatly benefit from Reticulum’s enhanced scalability and security features.

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