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Algorand

Algorand

Jing Chen, Silvio Micali

摘要:

公共账本是一个防篡改的数据序列,每个人都可以阅读和扩充。公共账本有无数令人信服的用途。它们可以在众目睽睽之下确保所有类型的交易-如所有权、销售和付款-按照它们发生的确切顺序进行。公共账本不仅可以遏制腐败,还可以实现非常复杂的应用程序,例如加密货币和智能合约。他们将彻底改变民主社会的运作方式。然而,按照目前的实施情况,这些方案的规模很小,无法发挥其潜力。Algorand是实现公共账本的真正民主和有效的方法。与以前基于工作量证明的实现不同,它需要的计算量可以忽略不计,并且生成的事务历史不会以压倒性的高概率“分叉”。Algorand基于(一种新颖且超快速的)消息传递拜占庭协议。为了具体起见,我们将Algorand描述为一个货币平台。

英文摘要:

A public ledger is a tamperproof sequence of data that can be read and augmented by everyone. Public ledgers have innumerable and compelling uses. They can secure, in plain sight, all kinds of transactions ---such as titles, sales, and payments--- in the exact order in which they occur. Public ledgers not only curb corruption, but also enable very sophisticated applications ---such as cryptocurrencies and smart contracts. They stand to revolutionize the way a democratic society operates. As currently implemented, however, they scale poorly and cannot achieve their potential. Algorand is a truly democratic and efficient way to implement a public ledger. Unlike prior implementations based on proof of work, it requires a negligible amount of computation, and generates a transaction history that will not "fork" with overwhelmingly high probability. Algorand is based on (a novel and super fast) message-passing Byzantine agreement. For concreteness, we shall describe Algorand only as a money platform.

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