FairDAG: Consensus Fairness over Multi-Proposer Causal Design

Summary: FairDAG moves consensus fairness from leader-based chains to multi-proposer DAGs, limiting proposer ordering manipulation while improving throughput. AB and RL variants outperform Pompe and Themis in throughput and fairness quality. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 14517
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 10,577 | 27.44%
DOI: 10.14778/3773749.3773763

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Authors

1. Dakai Kang (University of California Davis)
2. Junchao Chen (University of California Davis)
3. Tien Tuan Anh Dinh (Deakin University; University of California Davis)
4. Mohammad Sadoghi (University of California Davis)

BibTeX Citation

@article{kang_vldb26,
        title = {{FairDAG: Consensus Fairness over Multi-Proposer Causal Design}},
        author = {Kang, Dakai and Chen, Junchao and Dinh, Tien Tuan Anh and Sadoghi, Mohammad},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '26},
        volume = {19},
        number = {2},
        pages = {265--278},
        doi = {10.14778/3773749.3773763},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3773749.3773763},
        year = {2026}
}

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1,843	ResilientDB: Global Scale Resilient Blockchain Fabric	2020	VLDB	9.6340278e-05
2,497	Low-Latency Multi-Datacenter Databases using Replicated Commit	2013	VLDB	8.5020762e-05
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5,213	Spitz: A Verifiable Database System	2020	VLDB	6.3143934e-05
6,867	Caerus: Low-Latency Distributed Transactions for Geo-Replicated Systems	2024	VLDB	5.7506468e-05
7,819	InTime: Towards Performance Predictability In Byzantine Fault Tolerant Proof-of-Stake Consensus	2025	SIGMOD	5.5373997e-05
9,051	HotStuff-1: Linear Consensus with One-Phase Speculation	2025	SIGMOD	5.3251649e-05
9,186	Rashnu: Data-Dependent Order-Fairness	2024	VLDB	5.3058708e-05
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