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Spectrum: Speedy and Strictly-Deterministic Smart Contract Transactions for Blockchain Ledgers
Summary: Spectrum enforces consensus-established serial order (strict determinism) for EVM smart contracts with runtime-determined accesses via speculative deterministic concurrency control. Key optimizations—operation-level rollback and predictive scheduling—reduce mis-speculations and aborts, yielding 1.4–4.1× throughput wins under contention.
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 13480
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2024
- Pagerank
- 4.1905499e-05
- Overall Rank
- 11,040 | 23.28%
- DOI
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10.14778/3675034.3675045
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