Best Paper Award for Banyan
The DISCO group’s "Banyan: Fast Rotating Leader BFT" has won the Best Paper Award at Middleware 2024! The paper demonstrates how to reduce the latency of modern blockchain protocols.
When it comes to online services, latency is a critical aspect of the user experience. While centralized applications—such as Mastercard, Visa, and Twint—provide services that feel nearly instantaneous, their decentralized counterparts often involve noticeable delays, which can sometimes amount to minutes or even hours (as is the case with Bitcoin).
Banyan [*] addresses this challenge by introducing a fast path that allows blockchain blocks to be committed in just two message delays. This can help reduce latency commonly associated with modern blockchain protocols.
Congratulations!
[*] Yann Vonlanthen, Massimo Albarello, Jakub Sliwinski, and Roger Wattenhofer: "Banyan: Fast Rotating Leader BFT"
external page (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3652892.3700788)