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)
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Authors
- 1. Zhihao Chen (East China Normal University)
- 2. Tianji Yang (East China Normal University)
- 3. Yixiao Zheng (East China Normal University)
- 4. Zhao Zhang (East China Normal University)
- 5. Cheqing Jin (East China Normal University)
- 6. Aoying Zhou (East China Normal University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{chen_vldb24,
title = {{Spectrum: Speedy and Strictly-Deterministic Smart Contract Transactions for Blockchain Ledgers}},
author = {Chen, Zhihao and Yang, Tianji and Zheng, Yixiao and Zhang, Zhao and Jin, Cheqing and Zhou, Aoying},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '24},
volume = {17},
number = {10},
pages = {2541--2554},
doi = {10.14778/3675034.3675045},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3675034.3675045},
year = {2024}
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| 10,660 | Hyra: Scalable Byzantine-Resilient State Storage Engine with Hierarchical Erasure-Coding | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,856 | Remora: Scale-out Deterministic Execution for Smart Contracts | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
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