October 2:

• Introduction to Transactions and Consensus.

October 5:

• Transaction Management in the R* Distributed Database Management System. TODS'86. [Yidong Li]

October 7:

• Brewer’s conjecture and the feasibility of consistent, available, partition-tolerant web services. SIGACT’02 [Tony Xiao, Pengcheng Ding]

October 9:

• CAP twelve years later: How the “rules” have changed. Computer’12 [Zhouhao Wang, Ikechi Iwuagwu]

October 12:

• ResilientDB Hands-on Tutorial. Sajjad Rahnama [Video]
• Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system. 2008. [Video]

October 14:

• Bitcoin’s academic pedigree. CACM’17 [Nuamaan Sheikh]
• Blockchains from a distributed computing perspective. CACM’19 [Nuamaan Sheikh]

October 16:

• In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm. USENIX ATC'14 [Yu-Hsuan Tseng, Jonathan Rosenzweig]

October 19:

• Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance. OSDI'99. [Prof. Sadoghi]

October 21:

• [Continue:] Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance. OSDI'99. [Prof. Sadoghi]

October 23:

• Making Byzantine fault tolerant systems tolerate Byzantine faults, NSDI’09 [Xiaotian Zou, Lei Chu]

October 26:

• State Machine Replication for the Masses with BFT-SMART. DSN'14 [Chih-Hsiang, Chen, Hsin-Yang, Huang]

October 28:

• Proof-of-Execution: Reaching Consensus through Fault-Tolerant Speculation. arXiv'19 [Haojun Zhu]

October 30:

• HotStuff: BFT Consensus in the Lens of Blockchain. PODC’19 [Sajjad Rahnama]
• Zyzzyva: Speculative Byzantine Fault Tolerance. SOSP'07 [Sajjad Rahnama]

November 2:

• ResilientDB: Global Scale Resilient Blockchain Fabric. VLDB'20 [Yu-Hsuan,Tseng, Chuan-Hsin, Cho]

November 4:

• RCC: Resilient Concurrent Consensus for High-Throughput Secure Transaction Processing. ICDE'21[Di Zhao, Shawn Qiu]

November 6:

• Attested Append-only Memory: Making Adversaries Stick to Their Word. SOSP'07 [Shouliang Gong, Yugi Yang]

November 9:

• All about Eve: Execute-Verify Replication for Multi-Core Servers. OSDI'12 [Chongzhou Fang, Yubo Wang]

November 11:

• Veterans Day

November 13:

• CheapBFT: Resource-efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerance. EuroSys’12 [Yunqiu Guo]

November 16:

• Cerberus: Minimalistic Multi-shard Byzantine-resilient Transaction Processing. arXiv'20 [Gurumurthy Greesan, Prem Rao]

November 18:

• The Honey Badger of BFT Protocols. CCS’16. [Jared Li, Juan Martinez]

November 20:

• Monoxide: Scale out Blockchains with Asynchronous Consensus Zones, NDSI’19 [Agnieszka Lupinska]

November 23:

• RapidChain: Scaling Blockchain via Full Sharding CCS '18 [Neil Arakkal, Avish Menon]

November 25:

• Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies. SOSP'17.  [Ikechi Iwuagwu]

November 27:

• Thanksgiving!

November 30:

• Cross-chain Deals and Adversarial Commerce. VLDB'20 [Jingyuan Li, Keyi Wu]

December 2:

• Atomic Commitment Across Blockchains. VLDB'20 [Dan Hoang, Ryan Tsang]

December 4:

• Blockchain consensus protocols in the wild (keynote talk). DISC’17 [Alicia Siu, David Pham]

December 7:

• Hyperledger fabric: a distributed operating system for permissioned blockchains. EuroSys'18. [TBA]

December 9:

• The Libra Blockchain. 2019. [TBA]