| Title | : | Blockene: A High-throughput Blockchain Over Mobile Devices |
| Speaker | : | Pappu Kumar (IITM) |
| Details | : | Fri, 19 Jul, 2024 11:30 AM @ By Google Meet |
| Abstract: | : | We introduce Blockene, a blockchain that reduces resource usage at member nodes by orders of magnitude, requiring only a smartphone to participate in block validation and con- sensus. Despite being lightweight, Blockene provides a high throughput of transactions and scales to a large number of participants. Blockene consumes negligible battery and data in smartphones, enabling millions of users to participate in the blockchain without incentives, to secure transactions with their collective honesty. Blockene achieves these properties with a novel split-trust design based on delegating storage and gossip to untrusted nodes.
We show, with a prototype implementation, that Blockene provides throughput of 1045 transactions/sec, and runs with very low resource usage on smartphones, pointing to a new paradigm for building secure, decentralized applications. Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/ucx-wvux-fgd |
