Seer: Accelerating Blockchain Transaction Execution by Fine-Grained Branch Prediction
Summary: Seer uses fine-grained two-level branch prediction to make off‑critical‑path pre-execution of smart-contract transactions effective by reducing inconsistent paths from state-dependent branches. Combined with checkpoint-based fast‑path replay for mispredictions, Seer yields ~27.7x per-transaction and ~20.6x execution-phase speedups over vanilla Ethereum. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Shijie Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
- 2. Ru Cheng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
- 3. Xinpeng Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
- 4. Jiang Xiao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
- 5. Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
- 6. Bo Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@article{zhang_vldb25,
title = {{Seer: Accelerating Blockchain Transaction Execution by Fine-Grained Branch Prediction}},
author = {Zhang, Shijie and Cheng, Ru and Liu, Xinpeng and Xiao, Jiang and Jin, Hai and Li, Bo},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '25},
volume = {18},
number = {3},
pages = {822--835},
doi = {10.14778/3712221.3712245},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3712221.3712245},
year = {2025}
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