Optimal Sharding for Scalable Blockchains with Deconstructed SMR
Summary: Arete deconstructs SMR to break the shard size–security tradeoff: a lightweight ordering shard orders digests while many non‑consensus processing shards (≈50% Byzantine tolerance) handle dissemination/execution, enabling much smaller shards. By separating safety/liveness and using a certify‑order‑execute pipeline, Arete fully parallelizes transaction handling and achieves superior scalability, throughput and cross‑shard latency in a 500‑node AWS evaluation. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Jianting Zhang
- 2. Zhongtang Luo
- 3. Raghavendra Ramesh
- 4. Aniket Kate
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