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 (Purdue University)
- 2. Zhongtang Luo (Purdue University)
- 3. Raghavendra Ramesh (Supra Research)
- 4. Aniket Kate (Purdue University; Supra Research)
BibTeX Citation
@article{zhang_vldb25,
title = {{Optimal Sharding for Scalable Blockchains with Deconstructed SMR}},
author = {Zhang, Jianting and Luo, Zhongtang and Ramesh, Raghavendra and Kate, Aniket},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '25},
volume = {18},
number = {7},
pages = {2198--2211},
doi = {10.14778/3734839.3734855},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3734839.3734855},
year = {2025}
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