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Vault: Fast Bootstrapping for the Algorand Cryptocurrency

Vault compresses Algorand's state and the proofs a client needs so a bootstrapping node does not replay the entire history.

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Authors: Derek Leung, Adam Suhl, Yossi Gilad and Nickolai Zeldovich
Date: 2019
Publisher: Derek Leung, Adam Suhl, Yossi Gilad and Nickolai Zeldovich
Version: Source cited by the 2019 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0126
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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Vault compresses Algorand's state and the proofs a client needs so a bootstrapping node does not replay the entire history.

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Leung, D., Suhl, A., Gilad, Y., & Zeldovich, N. (2019). Vault: Fast Bootstrapping for the Algorand Cryptocurrency. Derek Leung, Adam Suhl, Yossi Gilad and Nickolai Zeldovich. https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/269

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@techreport{algorandvault2019,
  title = {Vault: Fast Bootstrapping for the Algorand Cryptocurrency},
  author = {Derek Leung, Adam Suhl, Yossi Gilad and Nickolai Zeldovich},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {Derek Leung, Adam Suhl, Yossi Gilad and Nickolai Zeldovich},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/269},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/algorand-vault}
}

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